Tahoe Elementary

As a small K-5 school in Sacramento, California, Tahoe Elementary teaches 319 students from grades K through 6, overseen by Sacramento City Unified. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Tahoe Elementary sits 31% leaner than that benchmark.

Sacramento City Unified runs 73 schools in total, collectively educating 37,657 students. Tahoe Elementary is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Tahoe Elementary logs that 49% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school records 19% White, 15% Black, 12% multiracial, 4% Asian. By comparison, Sacramento County as a whole is about 24% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 66% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Tahoe Elementary falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 39.9%; this one comes in at 19.5%, -20.4 points off the demographic line.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Sacramento County put the typical household earns roughly $92,175 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Sacramento County's 387 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,342 students), Tahoe Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Hiram W. Johnson High, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Tahoe Elementary comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 42.1%.

Tahoe Elementary operates from a city-core location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Tahoe Elementary has decreased 11%, going from 358 students in 2018 to 319 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 24.1:1 in 2018 to 19.3:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.