Mesa Verde High

As a reasonably sized four-year high school in Citrus Heights, California, Mesa Verde High works with 894 students from grades 9 through 12, part of San Juan Unified.

San Juan Unified runs 67 schools in total, collectively educating 39,171 students. Mesa Verde High is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Mesa Verde High logs that the largest single group is White at 42%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school records 39% Hispanic, 6% Asian, 6% multiracial, 5% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. An estimated 58% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, Mesa Verde High falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 45.1%; this one comes in at 18.7%, -26.4 points off the demographic line.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Sacramento County put 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%. In all, Sacramento County runs 387 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,342 students), of which Mesa Verde High is one.

The closest other public school is Carriage Drive Elementary, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Mesa Verde High ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 26.1%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Five-year trend. Mesa Verde High's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 909 (now 894). The White share of enrollment edged down from 51% to 42% over that span.

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