Oak Chan Elementary

Set in Folsom, California, Oak Chan Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school, run under Folsom-Cordova Unified. It educates 437 students across grades K through 5.

Folsom-Cordova Unified comprises 35 schools with combined enrollment of 21,699 students; Oak Chan Elementary is among them.

Demographically, Oak Chan Elementary shows that the largest single group is White, at 60% of enrollment. The remainder is composed of 14% multiracial, 14% Hispanic, 11% Asian. By comparison, Sacramento County as a whole is about 45% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 11% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below Sacramento County's rate of about 63%.

With demographic context factored in, Oak Chan Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 72.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 74.0%.

Across the wider county, Sacramento County reports that median household income runs about $92,175, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Sacramento County runs 387 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,342 students), of which Oak Chan Elementary is one.

Folsom Hills Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Oak Chan Elementary comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 68.2%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 3%: 449 students in 2018 compared to 437 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 71% to 60% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 24.9:1 in 2018 to 21.4:1 in 2025.

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