New Joseph Bonnheim (NJB) Community Charter

Set in Sacramento, California, New Joseph Bonnheim (NJB) Community Charter is a low-enrollment elementary-level community, part of Sacramento City Unified. It enrolls 286 students across grades K through 6. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so New Joseph Bonnheim (NJB) Community Charter sits 38% leaner than that benchmark.

Within Sacramento City Unified, which oversees 73 schools and 37,657 students, New Joseph Bonnheim (NJB) Community Charter is one campus in the system.

Demographically, New Joseph Bonnheim (NJB) Community Charter lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 66%; the rest breaks down as 12% White, 9% Asian, 8% Black, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Sacramento County as a whole is about 24% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, New Joseph Bonnheim (NJB) Community Charter shows 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 22.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 88% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Sacramento County (around 63%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, New Joseph Bonnheim (NJB) Community Charter performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.0%, the actual is 28.4%, a residual of +1.4 points.

Around the school, 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%. In all, Sacramento County runs 387 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,342 students), of which New Joseph Bonnheim (NJB) Community Charter is one.

Earl Warren Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts New Joseph Bonnheim (NJB) Community Charter at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 34.1%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting. As a public charter, New Joseph Bonnheim (NJB) Community Charter runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Over the past 7-year window. New Joseph Bonnheim (NJB) Community Charter's enrollment has changed only slightly since 2018, when it stood at 283 (now 286). Class-load math has widened: from 20.5:1 in 2018 to 22.9:1 in 2025.

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