Norwood Junior High

Norwood Junior High is a compact intermediate school in Sacramento, California, one of the schools within Twin Rivers Unified. The school caters to 450 students in grades 7 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 659 students per school, that is 32% leaner than typical.

Twin Rivers Unified runs 44 schools in total, collectively educating 24,770 students. Norwood Junior High is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Norwood Junior High records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (38%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school records 30% Asian, 15% Black, 8% multiracial, 5% White. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 24%.

In terms of school funding signals, Norwood Junior High reports 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.6:1. The state averages about 20.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 83% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Sacramento County's rate of about 63%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Norwood Junior High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 30.0%, the actual is 28.6%, a residual of -1.4 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Sacramento County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $92,175 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Sacramento County runs 387 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,342 students), of which Norwood Junior High is one.

The closest other public school is Taylor Street Elementary, roughly 0.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Norwood Junior High. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Norwood Junior High ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 21.8%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 40%: 749 students in 2018 compared to 450 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment climbed from 20% to 30% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 21.7:1 in 2018 to 20.6:1 today.

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