Riego Creek Elementary

Riego Creek Elementary is one of the medium-sized elementary schools in Roseville, California, operated by Roseville City Elementary, with 693 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. That puts it 49% bigger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Within Roseville City Elementary, which oversees 21 schools and 12,306 students, Riego Creek Elementary is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Riego Creek Elementary records that the largest single group is White at 42%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school reports 21% Hispanic, 20% Asian, 13% multiracial, 3% Black. By comparison, Placer County as a whole is about 69% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Riego Creek Elementary records 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 21.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 33% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Riego Creek Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 60.0%, the actual is 58.2%, a residual of -1.8 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Placer County put the typical household earns roughly $115,998 per year, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Placer County runs 123 public schools (combined enrollment of about 70,590 students), of which Riego Creek Elementary is one.

Fiddyment Farm is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Riego Creek Elementary comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 60.5%.

Riego Creek Elementary operates from a metropolitan location.

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