Pacific Elementary

As a moderately sized elementary-level community in Sacramento, California, Pacific Elementary instructs 597 students from grades K through 6, overseen by Sacramento City Unified. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Pacific Elementary sits 28% larger than that benchmark.

Pacific Elementary is one of 73 schools operated by Sacramento City Unified, a district that caters to 37,657 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Pacific Elementary shows that 43% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school logs 27% Asian, 17% White, 6% Black, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Sacramento County as a whole is about 24% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 26.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Pacific Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Around 88% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Sacramento County's rate of about 63%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Pacific Elementary is in the bottom 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 28.2%; Pacific Elementary posts 9.8%, -18.4 points below that line.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Sacramento County indicate median household income runs about $92,175, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Sacramento County runs 387 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,342 students), of which Pacific Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Ethel I. Baker Elementary, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Pacific Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Pacific Elementary at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 18.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 20%: 743 students in 2018 compared to 597 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 56% to 43% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 25.1:1 in 2018 to 26.5:1 today.

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