Tierra Buena Elementary

Tierra Buena Elementary is one of the moderately sized elementary schools in Yuba City, California, one of the schools within Yuba City Unified, with 607 students on its rolls from grades K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 31% bigger than typical.

Yuba City Unified comprises 17 schools with combined enrollment of 11,388 students; Tierra Buena Elementary is among them.

Looking at the student body, Tierra Buena Elementary logs that 32% of students identify as Asian, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 30% Hispanic, 27% White, 9% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 18% Asian, putting the school's mix noticeably more Asian than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Tierra Buena Elementary has 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Tierra Buena Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 67% of students at Tierra Buena Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Tierra Buena Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 39.5%; this one delivers 52.1%.

Across the wider county, census data for Sutter County shows median household earnings sit near $79,704, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. In all, Sutter County runs 46 public schools (combined enrollment of about 23,784 students), of which Tierra Buena Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Butte Vista Elementary, around 0.9 miles off. 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), Tierra Buena Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 35.4%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 12%: 693 students in 2018 compared to 607 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 38% to 27%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 20.0:1 in 2018 to 18.0:1 today.

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