Penryn Elementary

Penryn Elementary is an elementary campus of cozy scale in Penryn, California, run under Loomis Union Elementary, enrolling 250 students in grades K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 46% below typical.

Loomis Union Elementary runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 2,826 students. Penryn Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Penryn Elementary reports that nearly all students (87%) are White. The remainder breaks down as 9% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Placer County as a whole is about 69% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.0:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 12% of students at Penryn Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Placer County runs at roughly 33%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Penryn Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 72.6%; this one delivers 67.9%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Placer County indicate median household earnings sit near $115,998, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Placer County's 123 public schools (combined enrollment of about 70,590 students), Penryn Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Del Oro High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Penryn Elementary. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Penryn Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 66.1%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Penryn Elementary has held roughly steady, going from 252 students in 2018 to 250 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 24.6:1 in 2018 to 22.0:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.