Rancho Cordova Elementary

Set in Rancho Cordova, California, Rancho Cordova Elementary is a reasonably sized elementary school, one of the schools within Folsom-Cordova Unified. It caters to 407 students across grades K through 5.

Folsom-Cordova Unified comprises 35 schools with combined enrollment of 21,699 students; Rancho Cordova Elementary is among them.

On demographics, Rancho Cordova Elementary logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 59%; the rest reads as 17% White, 11% multiracial, 6% Black, 5% Asian. By comparison, Sacramento County as a whole is about 24% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.5:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 78% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Sacramento County's rate of about 63%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Rancho Cordova Elementary falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 33.2%; this one comes in at 17.5%, -15.8 points off the demographic line.

In the broader community, census data for Sacramento County shows median household income runs about $92,175, 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 Rancho Cordova Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Mills Middle, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Rancho Cordova Elementary comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 25.6%.

Rancho Cordova Elementary operates from a city-core location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Rancho Cordova Elementary's enrollment has showed little movement since 2018, when it stood at 410 (now 407). White enrollment moved from 27% to 17% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 20.5:1 in 2018 to 19.5:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.