Sutterville Elementary

Sutterville Elementary operates as a moderately sized elementary school in Sacramento, California, one of the schools within Sacramento City Unified. Current enrollment sits at 408 students spanning grades K through 6.

Sacramento City Unified comprises 73 schools with combined enrollment of 37,657 students; Sutterville Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, Sutterville Elementary shows that the most-represented group is White (34%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 33% Hispanic, 16% multiracial, 15% Asian. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 45%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 25.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 31% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Sacramento County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Sutterville Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.1%, the actual is 61.6%, a residual of +0.5 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Sacramento County shows median household earnings sit near $92,175, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Sacramento County's 387 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,342 students), Sutterville Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Hollywood Park Elementary, around 0.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Sutterville Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 30.3%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Sutterville Elementary has declined 20%, going from 508 students in 2018 to 408 in 2025.

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