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Enrollment
1,594
High
DISTRICT 860 · STATE 838
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·TWIN RIVERS UNIFIED·NCES 060133201991
Rio Linda High
6309 Dry Creek Rd., Rio Linda, CA 95673 · (916) 566-2725 · Sacramento County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,594 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 63% of California public high schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- BThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public high schools
Student : Teacher
20.4:1
78 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.2:1 · STATE 18.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
83%
1,323 students
DISTRICT 87% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 429 | 27% |
| Grade 10 | 437 | 27% |
| Grade 11 | 399 | 25% |
| Grade 12 | 329 | 21% |
Student demographics
67%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
56.5%
CA avg 49.1% . +10.5pp since 2014
Math
23.4%
CA avg 37.7% . +0.4pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 57 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 23 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 11 points since 2014, while math scores have held steady.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 24.9% | 31.6% | 20.1% | 23.4% |
| Math | 11.3% | 12.2% | 24.9% | 51.7% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 56.5% | 23.4% |
| 2023-24 | 53.6% | 23.0% |
| 2022-23 | 52.3% | 22.4% |
| 2021-22 | 46.5% | 26.8% |
| 2018-19 | 58.8% | 32.4% |
| 2017-18 | 54.8% | 34.4% |
| 2016-17 | 56.2% | 24.9% |
| 2015-16 | 56.0% | 20.0% |
| 2014-15 | 46.0% | 23.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
39.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
30.9%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+8.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 39% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 31% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Rio Linda High
Rio Linda High's state test result (39.1% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rio Linda High this school | 1,594 | 83.0% | 39.1% |
| Lindhurst High Olivehurst | 1,254 | 76.8% | 27.3% |
| Herbert Hoover High Fresno | 2,040 | 83.5% | 29.4% |
| Centennial High Corona | 2,712 | 81.3% | 47.3% |
| El Capitan High Merced | 1,793 | 76.2% | 32.8% |
| Merrill F. West High Tracy | 1,920 | 75.8% | 38.9% |
Matched among California high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Rio Linda High ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Sacramento County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 39.1% | #553 of 1,052 | #18 of 45 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 23.4% | #577 of 1,056 ▼ 50 | #22 of 45 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 56.5% | #543 of 1,056 ▲ 36 | #16 of 45 ▼ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +3.3pp | #439 of 1,044 | #14 of 44 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,594 | #514 of 2,093 | #22 of 77 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 20.4:1 | #606 of 1,352 | #20 of 50 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 66.8% | #206 of 1,351 | #32 of 50 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 83.0% | #529 of 1,575 | #7 of 64 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -3.9% | #665 of 802 | #18 of 23 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
1,594
-122 (-7%) vs 2020
-17% since 2010-11, when it was 1,928
Student : Teacher
20.4:1
was 21.7:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 1,594 | 78.2 | 20.4:1 | 83% (1,323) |
| 2023-24 | 1,596 | 77.9 | 20.5:1 | 82% (1,310) |
| 2022-23 | 1,596 | 82.8 | 19.3:1 | 82% (1,302) |
| 2020-21 | 1,716 | 79 | 21.7:1 | 83% (1,430) |
| 2017-18 | 1,659 | 81.6 | 20.3:1 | 79% (1,308) |
| 2015-16 | 1,738 | 82 | 21.2:1 | 77% (1,335) |
| 2010-11 | 1,928 | N/A | N/A | 65% (1,247) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Rio Linda High.
Since 2017-18: students down 4% (1,659 to 1,594); teachers down 4% (81.6 to 78.2).
About Rio Linda High
Families in Rio Linda, California, are served by Rio Linda High, a high-enrollment high school. The school's 1,594 students are in grades 9 through 12. Statewide, high schools in California average about 838 students each.
A total of 44 schools make up Twin Rivers Unified, with 24,770 students enrolled.
Hispanic students make up a majority at Rio Linda High, at 51%. The next largest groups are 19% White, 15% Asian, 7% Black, and 6% multiracial. In Sacramento County overall, about 24% of residents are Hispanic. The school's diversity index is 67%, meaning two students picked at random have a 67% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Rio Linda High employs 78.2 full-time-equivalent teachers. That gives a ratio of about 20.4:1. This ratio sits 2.2 above the 18.2:1 average for high schools in California. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility was 83% in 2024-25. That rate is above the 63% average among public schools in Sacramento County.
Rio Linda High is graded B by allk12, scoring above 63% of California public high schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Rio Linda High sits between the top and bottom 10% of California schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate on state tests of 39.1% and a predicted 30.9%.
Sacramento County has about 1,594,006 residents, and the median household income is $92,175, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Besides Rio Linda High, Sacramento County has 386 other public schools.
The closest public school to Rio Linda High is Rio Linda Preparatory Academy, about 0.2 miles away. Rio Linda High is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Rio Linda High comes in 3rd of 7 nearby schools on average proficiency.
Federal data place Rio Linda High in the Suburb: Large locale, which means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
2024-25 enrollment was 1,594, a 7% decrease from 1,716 in 2020-21. The ratio was 21.7:1 in 2020-21 and 20.4:1 in 2024-25.
Posts about school events, clubs, and volunteer needs are welcome on this page. Reviews and ratings from people who know the school are welcome.
Sacramento County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,594,006
Census ACS
Median income
$92,175
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
34%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
387
259,342 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Twin Rivers Unified
- Grant Union HighHigh · 1,987 students
- Foothill HighHigh · 1,417 students
- Smythe Academy of Arts and SciencesElementary · 1,091 students
- Las Palmas ElementaryElementary · 1,001 students
- Woodridge ElementaryElementary · 814 students
- Highlands HighHigh · 778 students
Other schools in Rio Linda
- Heritage Peak CharterCombined · 1,181 students
- Dry Creek ElementaryElementary · 645 students
- Westside Preparatory CharterMiddle · 480 students
- Westside ElementaryElementary · 376 students
- Orchard ElementaryElementary · 366 students
- Rio Linda Preparatory AcademyMiddle · 331 students
Nearby schools
- Rio Linda Preparatory Academy0.2 mi · 331
- Dry Creek Elementary0.3 mi · 645
- Heritage Peak Charter0.8 mi · 1,181
- Orchard Elementary1.0 mi · 366
- Paseo Grande Charter1.4 mi · 152
- Westside Preparatory Charter1.5 mi · 480
Frequently asked questions
About Rio Linda HighHow large is Rio Linda High?
Rio Linda High enrolls approximately 1,594 students in grades 09-12.
What age range does Rio Linda High serve?
Rio Linda High serves students from grade 09 through grade 12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Rio Linda High?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Rio Linda High is approximately 20.4:1 (78 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Rio Linda High?
Student demographics at Rio Linda High are roughly 19% White, 51% Hispanic, 7% Black, 15% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees Rio Linda High?
Rio Linda High is overseen by Twin Rivers Unified in Sacramento County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.