Pershing Elementary

Pershing Elementary operates as a mid-tier elementary-level community in Orangevale, California, run under San Juan Unified. Current enrollment sits at 494 students spanning grades K through 6.

Within San Juan Unified, which oversees 67 schools and 39,171 students, Pershing Elementary is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Pershing Elementary logs that White students make up the majority at 56%. The remainder breaks down as 24% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 7% Asian. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 45%.

On the resource side, On paper, Pershing Elementary has 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 26.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Pershing Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 45% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Sacramento County (around 63%), the school's rate is south of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Pershing Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.0%, the actual is 63.3%, a residual of +10.3 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Sacramento County put the typical household earns roughly $92,175 per year, 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 Pershing Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Andrew Carnegie Middle, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Pershing Elementary comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 48.7%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 15%: 580 students in 2018 compared to 494 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 66% to 56%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 28.6:1 in 2018 to 26.0:1 today.

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