Park Avenue Elementary

Park Avenue Elementary is a K-5 school of average-sized scale in Yuba City, California, run under Yuba City Unified, serveing 541 students in grades K through 5.

Yuba City Unified runs 17 schools in total, collectively educating 11,388 students. Park Avenue Elementary is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Park Avenue Elementary reports that nearly all students (82%) are Hispanic; the rest reads as 8% White, 5% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 33% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 95% of students at Park Avenue Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Sutter County's rate of about 60%.

After controlling for student poverty, Park Avenue Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 23.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 18.2%.

In the broader community, census data for Sutter County shows the typical household earns roughly $79,704 per year, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Across Sutter County's 46 public schools (combined enrollment of about 23,784 students), Park Avenue Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Yuba City High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Park Avenue Elementary. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Park Avenue Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 23.9%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Park Avenue Elementary has declined 3%, going from 557 students in 2018 to 541 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 22.3:1 in 2018 to 24.1:1 today.

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