Oak Ridge Elementary

Oak Ridge Elementary is a mid-sized elementary-level community in Sacramento, California, one of the schools within Sacramento City Unified. The school enrolls 429 students in grades K through 6.

Oak Ridge Elementary is one of 73 schools operated by Sacramento City Unified, a district that hosts 37,657 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Oak Ridge Elementary shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 58% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 18% Asian, 9% Black, 7% multiracial, 5% White. By comparison, Sacramento County as a whole is about 24% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 28.4:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 97% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Sacramento County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Oak Ridge Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.0%, the actual is 14.3%, a residual of -7.8 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Sacramento County indicate the typical household earns roughly $92,175 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Sacramento County's 387 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,342 students), Oak Ridge Elementary is one campus in the mix.

St. HOPE Public School 7 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Oak Ridge Elementary. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Oak Ridge Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 18.3%.

Oak Ridge Elementary operates from a downtown location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 15%: 502 students in 2018 compared to 429 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment shrank from 16% to 9% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 21.8:1 in 2018 to 28.4:1 today.

On allk12, the feed for Oak Ridge Elementary typically covers sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.