Sierra View Elementary

Located at 3638 Bainbridge Dr., in North Highlands, California, Sierra View Elementary is a cozy K-5 school that works with 318 students (grades K through 6), overseen by Twin Rivers Unified. That puts it 32% leaner than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Sierra View Elementary is one of 44 schools operated by Twin Rivers Unified, a district that teaches 24,770 students overall.

On demographics, Sierra View Elementary logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school logs 21% White, 13% Asian, 9% multiracial, 7% Black. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 24%.

On the resource side, The school reports having 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 22.2:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 87% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Sacramento County (around 63%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Sierra View Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.4%, the actual is 26.8%, a residual of -0.6 points.

In the area at large, Sacramento County reports that the typical household earns roughly $92,175 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Sierra View Elementary is one of 387 public schools in Sacramento County (combined enrollment of about 259,342 students).

The closest other public school is Creative Connections Arts Academy, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Sierra View Elementary ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 29.8%.

Sierra View Elementary operates from a residential location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 16%: 378 students in 2018 compared to 318 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 29% to 21% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 23.6:1 in 2018 to 22.2:1 in 2025.

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