Northwood Elementary

Located at 2630 Taft St., in Sacramento, California, Northwood Elementary is a modestly sized primary school that educates 351 students (grades K through 6), one of the schools within Twin Rivers Unified. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Northwood Elementary sits 25% leaner than that benchmark.

Twin Rivers Unified comprises 44 schools with combined enrollment of 24,770 students; Northwood Elementary is among them.

On demographics, Northwood Elementary lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (46%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder is composed of 19% Asian, 13% Black, 11% White, 9% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 24%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 95% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Sacramento County (around 63%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Northwood Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 22.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 10.2%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Sacramento County put median household income runs about $92,175, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Northwood Elementary is one of 387 public schools in Sacramento County (combined enrollment of about 259,342 students).

The closest other public school is Hagginwood Elementary, roughly 0.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Northwood Elementary comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 20.7%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 31%: 506 students in 2018 compared to 351 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment increased from 8% to 19% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 25.3:1 in 2018 to 19.4:1 in 2025.

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