Northlake TK-8
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardWhat this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 63 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 49 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 54% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 51% 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%.
About Northlake TK-8
Northlake TK-8 is one of the small primary schools in Sacramento, California, part of Twin Rivers Unified, with 380 students on its rolls from grades K through 8.
Twin Rivers Unified comprises 44 schools with combined enrollment of 24,770 students; Northlake TK-8 is among them.
On demographics, Northlake TK-8 reports that 41% of students identify as Asian, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder is composed of 18% Hispanic, 17% Black, 12% multiracial, 9% White. The wider county runs roughly 18% Asian, putting the school's mix noticeably more Asian than the area baseline.
Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 48% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Sacramento County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.
After controlling for student poverty, Northlake TK-8 sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 51.2%; this one delivers 54.5%.
Around the school, the surrounding county (Sacramento County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $92,175 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Northlake TK-8 is one of 387 public schools in Sacramento County (combined enrollment of about 259,342 students).
H. Allen Hight Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Northlake TK-8. On composite proficiency, Northlake TK-8 comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 45.1%.
Northlake TK-8 operates from a rural location.
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