Mills Middle

Mills Middle is a medium-sized 6-8 campus in Rancho Cordova, California, one of the schools within Folsom-Cordova Unified. The school educates 886 students in grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 659 students per school, that is 34% bigger than typical.

Mills Middle is one of 35 schools operated by Folsom-Cordova Unified, a district that instructs 21,699 students overall.

On demographics, Mills Middle reports that the most-represented group is Hispanic (45%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 20% White, 13% multiracial, 12% Asian, 9% Black. By comparison, Sacramento County as a whole is about 24% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Mills Middle logs 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.9:1. The state averages about 20.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 83% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Sacramento County's rate of about 63%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Mills Middle sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 30.1%; this one delivers 17.7%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Sacramento County indicate the typical household earns roughly $92,175 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Sacramento County runs 387 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,342 students), of which Mills Middle is one.

The closest other public school is Cordova High, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Mills Middle comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 31.8%.

Mills Middle operates from a city-core location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 15%: 772 students in 2018 compared to 886 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 28% to 20% across the same window.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.