Main Avenue Elementary
Test scores
CAASPP 2023-24 . % met or exceeded standardWhat this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 24 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 13 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 47 and 36. Reading and writing scores are up about 2 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 8 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 19% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 29% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Main Avenue Elementary
Main Avenue Elementary operates as a tight-knit elementary campus in Sacramento, California, part of Robla Elementary. Current enrollment sits at 361 students spanning grades K through 6. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 22% below typical.
Within Robla Elementary, which oversees 5 schools and 1,892 students, Main Avenue Elementary is one campus in the system.
In terms of who attends, Main Avenue Elementary lists that the largest single group is Hispanic at 46%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 20% Asian, 16% Black, 11% White, 6% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 24%.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Main Avenue Elementary shows 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 22.6:1. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 85% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Sacramento County's rate of about 63%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Main Avenue Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 29.0%; this one delivers 18.8%.
In the area at large, census data for Sacramento County shows median household earnings sit near $92,175, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Sacramento County's 387 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,342 students), Main Avenue Elementary is one campus in the mix.
Futures High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Main Avenue Elementary comes 4th of 4 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 27.1%.
The campus sits in a downtown setting.
Trend over the last 7 years. Main Avenue Elementary's enrollment has changed only slightly since 2018, when it stood at 366 (now 361). Hispanic enrollment moved from 40% to 46% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 24.4:1 in 2018 to 22.6:1 in 2025.
On the community side, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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