Sutter Creek Elementary

Sutter Creek Elementary, a tight-knit primary school in Sutter Creek, California, part of Amador County Unified, caters to 387 students, covering grades K through 6.

Amador County Unified comprises 12 schools with combined enrollment of 4,027 students; Sutter Creek Elementary is among them.

Demographically, Sutter Creek Elementary reports that 67% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 19% Hispanic, 11% multiracial. By comparison, Amador County as a whole is about 76% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Sutter Creek Elementary records 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 26.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 35% of students at Sutter Creek Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, Sutter Creek Elementary is in the bottom 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 58.9%; Sutter Creek Elementary posts 38.1%, -20.7 points below that line.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Amador County put median household income runs about $88,044, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Sutter Creek Elementary is one of 15 public schools in Amador County (combined enrollment of about 4,050 students).

Amador High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Sutter Creek Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 38.1%.

Sutter Creek Elementary operates from a town-center location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 6%: 364 students in 2018 compared to 387 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 74% to 67% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 30.9:1 in 2018 to 26.6:1 in 2025.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.