Thomas Kelly Elementary

Thomas Kelly Elementary is an intimate K-5 school in Carmichael, California, one of the schools within San Juan Unified. The school educates 321 students in grades K through 5. That puts it 31% below the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Thomas Kelly Elementary is one of 67 schools operated by San Juan Unified, a district that teaches 39,171 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Thomas Kelly Elementary reports that the most-represented group is White (53%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 23% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 7% Black, 7% Asian. By comparison, Sacramento County as a whole is about 45% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.7:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Thomas Kelly Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 56% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, Thomas Kelly Elementary is in the bottom 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 46.1%; Thomas Kelly Elementary posts 24.9%, -21.1 points below that line.

Across the wider county, census data for Sacramento County shows the typical household earns roughly $92,175 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Thomas Kelly Elementary is one of 387 public schools in Sacramento County (combined enrollment of about 259,342 students).

Del Campo High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Thomas Kelly Elementary at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 24.6%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Five-year trend. Thomas Kelly Elementary's enrollment has decreased 36% since 2018, when it stood at 502 (now 321). Over the same period, the White share decreased from 59% to 53%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 26.4:1 in 2018 to 24.7:1 today.

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