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What's the biggest difference between Northwood Elementary and what you expected?
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Enrollment
351
Elementary
DISTRICT 514 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·TWIN RIVERS UNIFIED·NCES 060133204156
Northwood Elementary
2630 Taft St., Sacramento, CA 95815 · (916) 566-2705 · Sacramento County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL351 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 6% of California public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- CThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
19.4:1
18 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 23.7:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
95%
334 students
DISTRICT 87% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 63 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 41 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 40 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 64 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 48 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 51 | 15% |
| Grade 6 | 44 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (63) is 43% larger than its 6th grade class (44).
Student demographics
71%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
19.9%
CA avg 49.1% . +3.9pp since 2014
Math
12.8%
CA avg 37.7% . -2.2pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 20 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 13 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 4 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 2 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 5.9% | 14.0% | 21.5% | 58.6% |
| Math | 5.6% | 7.2% | 19.5% | 67.7% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 19.9% | 12.8% |
| 2023-24 | 13.5% | 6.9% |
| 2022-23 | 18.9% | 10.9% |
| 2021-22 | 22.9% | 10.6% |
| 2018-19 | 22.2% | 10.3% |
| 2017-18 | 16.7% | 12.3% |
| 2016-17 | 16.4% | 13.7% |
| 2015-16 | 21.0% | 14.0% |
| 2014-15 | 16.0% | 15.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
13.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
23.8%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-10.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 14% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 24% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Northwood Elementary
Northwood Elementary's state test result (13.6% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Northwood Elementary this school | 351 | 95.2% | 13.6% |
| Hagginwood Elementary Sacramento | 340 | 90.3% | 24.2% |
| Garden Valley Elementary Sacramento | 365 | 92.1% | 38.2% |
| D. W. Babcock Elementary Sacramento | 369 | 89.7% | 25.1% |
| La Escuelita Oakland | 274 | 93.4% | 20.7% |
| Wolters Elementary Fresno | 411 | 92.2% | 31.6% |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Northwood Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Sacramento County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 13.6% | #5,004 of 5,151 | #204 of 217 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 12.8% | #4,901 of 5,172 ▲ 209 | #195 of 217 ▲ 16 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 19.9% | #4,846 of 5,172 ▲ 225 | #195 of 217 ▲ 16 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -0.4pp | #1,662 of 5,116 | #77 of 213 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 351 | #4,264 of 5,915 | #182 of 238 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.4:1 | #703 of 5,352 | #12 of 227 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 71.3% | #471 of 5,354 | #85 of 227 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 95.2% | #428 of 5,625 | #4 of 235 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -30.6% | #498 of 3,837 | #12 of 145 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
351
-27 (-7%) vs 2020
-24% since 2010-11, when it was 460
Student : Teacher
19.4:1
was 21.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 351 | 18.1 | 19.4:1 | 95% (334) |
| 2023-24 | 428 | 18.1 | 23.7:1 | 94% (402) |
| 2022-23 | 382 | 18.1 | 21.1:1 | 92% (352) |
| 2020-21 | 378 | 18 | 21.0:1 | 98% (370) |
| 2017-18 | 506 | 20 | 25.3:1 | 97% (492) |
| 2015-16 | 491 | 19 | 25.8:1 | 97% (475) |
| 2010-11 | 460 | N/A | N/A | 93% (428) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Northwood Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 31% (506 to 351); teachers down 10% (20 to 18.1).
About Northwood Elementary
Northwood Elementary is a small elementary school that serves part of Sacramento, California. The school has 351 students in 2024-25 across kindergarten through 6. That compares with an average of about 465 students for elementary schools in California.
Twin Rivers Unified has 24,770 students in 44 schools, and Northwood Elementary is one of those schools.
Hispanic students make up 46% of enrollment at Northwood Elementary, the largest share of any group. Next come 19% Asian, 13% Black, 11% White, and 9% multiracial. That compares with about 24% Hispanic among all Sacramento County residents. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 71%.
Its staff includes 18.1 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 19.4 students per teacher. Compared with the 22.3:1 average for elementary schools in California, this school's ratio is lower. Roughly 95% of students at Northwood Elementary can receive free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in Sacramento County is 63%.
Among California public elementary schools, Northwood Elementary outscored 6%, which works out to a D on the allk12 Grade.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, Northwood Elementary would score about 23.8%. It scores 13.6%, 10.2 points below that figure.
For the population of Sacramento County, median household income comes to about $92,175, roughly 34% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 9%. Sacramento County counts 387 public schools with about 259,342 students.
Hagginwood Elementary sits about 0.6 miles from Northwood Elementary. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Northwood Elementary places 5th of 6 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
Locale data from NCES put Northwood Elementary inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more (City: Large).
Enrollment decreased 7% over 4 years, reaching 351 in 2024-25. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 21.0:1 to 19.4:1.
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Sacramento County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,594,006
Census ACS
Median income
$92,175
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
34%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
387
259,342 students
Quick facts
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Other Northwood Elementary schools
24 other US public schools in 15 states are named Northwood Elementary. Northwood Elementary is the 20th largest of the 25.
- Northwood ElementaryIrvine, CA · 508 students
- Northwood ElementarySan Jose, CA · 452 students
- Northwood ElementaryNapa, CA · 381 students
- NORTHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLCRESTVIEW, FL · 814 students
- Northwood ElementaryEdgewood, WA · 732 students
Nearby schools
- Hagginwood Elementary0.6 mi · 340
- D. W. Babcock Elementary0.7 mi · 369
- Martin Luther King Jr. Technology Academy1.0 mi · 503
- Woodlake Elementary1.0 mi · 351
- Las Palmas Elementary1.1 mi · 1,001
- Capital College & Career Academy1.1 mi · 115
Frequently asked questions
About Northwood ElementaryHow large is Northwood Elementary?
Northwood Elementary enrolls approximately 351 students in grades KG-06.
What age range does Northwood Elementary serve?
Northwood Elementary serves students from grade KG through grade 06.
How many students per teacher at Northwood Elementary?
Approximately 19.4:1 students per teacher at Northwood Elementary.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Northwood Elementary?
At Northwood Elementary, the student body is approximately 11% White, 46% Hispanic, 13% Black, 19% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Is Northwood Elementary public or private?
Northwood Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Twin Rivers Unified.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.