Parkway Elementary

Parkway Elementary, a mid-sized elementary-level community in Sacramento, California, part of Sacramento City Unified, educates 409 students, covering grades K through 6.

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

On demographics, Parkway Elementary logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (34%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest consists of 27% Black, 21% Asian, 8% multiracial, 7% Pacific Islander. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 24%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 25.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 85% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Sacramento County (around 63%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Parkway Elementary is in the bottom 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 28.7%; Parkway Elementary posts 10.0%, -18.6 points below that line.

In the broader community, Sacramento County reports that the typical household earns roughly $92,175 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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 Parkway Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Charles E. Mack Elementary, roughly 0.6 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Parkway Elementary. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Parkway Elementary ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 25.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Over the past 7-year window. Parkway Elementary's enrollment has contracted 28% since 2018, when it stood at 572 (now 409). Black enrollment moved from 32% to 27% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 22.9:1 in 2018 to 25.4:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.