Mather Heights Elementary

Set in Mather, California, Mather Heights Elementary is a compact K-5 school, overseen by Folsom-Cordova Unified. It hosts 236 students across grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 49% below the state mean of about 465.

Folsom-Cordova Unified runs 35 schools in total, collectively educating 21,699 students. Mather Heights Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Mather Heights Elementary logs that 38% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 27% Hispanic, 18% multiracial, 14% Asian, 3% Black.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 38% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Sacramento County (around 63%), the school's rate is south of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Mather Heights Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.8%, the actual is 64.6%, a residual of +7.8 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Sacramento County indicate median household earnings sit near $92,175, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Mather Heights Elementary is one of 387 public schools in Sacramento County (combined enrollment of about 259,342 students).

Nearest neighbor: Folsom Cordova K-8 Community Charter, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Mather Heights Elementary comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 42.4%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Mather Heights Elementary has fell 46%, going from 437 students in 2018 to 236 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 20% to 27%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 23.6:1 in 2018 to 18.3:1 today.

On allk12, members of the Mather Heights Elementary community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.