Sutter Elementary

Sutter Elementary is one of the mid-tier primary schools in Antioch, California, run under Antioch Unified, with 450 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

Antioch Unified comprises 25 schools with combined enrollment of 15,111 students; Sutter Elementary is among them.

Looking at the student body, Sutter Elementary logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 56%. Beyond that, the school lists 15% White, 15% Black, 9% Asian, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Contra Costa County as a whole is about 28% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Sutter Elementary lists 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 21.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Sutter Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 76% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Contra Costa County runs at roughly 45%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Sutter Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.4%, the actual is 25.7%, a residual of -8.6 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Contra Costa County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $127,229 per year, 45% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Contra Costa County's 280 public schools (combined enrollment of about 167,423 students), Sutter Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Park Middle, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Sutter Elementary. On composite proficiency, Sutter Elementary comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 15.9%.

Sutter Elementary operates from an outer-ring location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Sutter Elementary has edged down 23%, going from 582 students in 2018 to 450 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 22% to 15% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 25.3:1 in 2018 to 21.0:1 today.

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