Toby Johnson Middle

Toby Johnson Middle is a middle-grades school of sizable scale in Elk Grove, California, part of Elk Grove Unified, enrolling 1,317 students in grades 7 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 100% larger than the state mean of about 659.

Elk Grove Unified runs 67 schools in total, collectively educating 63,232 students. Toby Johnson Middle is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Toby Johnson Middle lists that the most-represented group is Asian (41%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder reads as 22% Hispanic, 14% White, 12% multiracial, 10% Black. By comparison, Sacramento County as a whole is about 18% Asian, so the school skews noticeably more Asian than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Toby Johnson Middle has 58 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 22.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 20.7:1, putting Toby Johnson Middle higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 45% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Sacramento County (around 63%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Toby Johnson Middle sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 52.7%; this one delivers 54.4%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Sacramento County) shows that median household income runs about $92,175, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Sacramento County runs 387 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,342 students), of which Toby Johnson Middle is one.

Nearest neighbor: Franklin High, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Toby Johnson Middle. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Toby Johnson Middle ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 56.2%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 1,309 students in 2018 compared to 1,317 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 20% to 14% across the same window.

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