Sunset Ranch Elementary

Sunset Ranch Elementary is one of the average-sized K-5 schools in Rocklin, California, part of Rocklin Unified, with 554 students on its rolls from grades K through 6.

Rocklin Unified runs 18 schools in total, collectively educating 11,579 students. Sunset Ranch Elementary is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Sunset Ranch Elementary records that the most-represented group is White (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder looks like 17% Hispanic, 17% Asian, 16% multiracial. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 69%.

Looking at school resources, Sunset Ranch Elementary reports 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 21.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 20% of students at Sunset Ranch Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Placer County (around 33%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Sunset Ranch Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 67.7%, the actual is 67.3%, a residual of -0.3 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Placer County put the typical household earns roughly $115,998 per year, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Sunset Ranch Elementary is one of 123 public schools in Placer County (combined enrollment of about 70,590 students).

Nearest neighbor: Quarry Trail Elementary, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Sunset Ranch Elementary comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 62.8%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 31%: 803 students in 2018 compared to 554 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 62% to 49% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 26.3:1 in 2018 to 21.2:1 in 2025.

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