Twin Lakes Elementary

Set in Orangevale, California, Twin Lakes Elementary is a mid-sized K-5 school, run under San Juan Unified. It educates 494 students across grades K through 6.

San Juan Unified runs 67 schools in total, collectively educating 39,171 students. Twin Lakes Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Twin Lakes Elementary shows that the largest single group is White, at 67% of enrollment; the rest looks like 19% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 2% Asian. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 45%.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 26.0:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 33% of students at Twin Lakes Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below Sacramento County's rate of about 63%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Twin Lakes Elementary falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 59.6%; this one comes in at 41.0%, -18.6 points off the demographic line.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Sacramento County) records that median household earnings sit near $92,175, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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 Twin Lakes Elementary is one.

Golden Valley River is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Twin Lakes Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Twin Lakes Elementary at 6th of 7; the average score across the group is 53.0%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Looking at the recent track record. Twin Lakes Elementary's enrollment has shrank 8% since 2018, when it stood at 539 (now 494). Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 75% to 67%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 28.0:1 in 2018 to 26.0:1 in 2025.

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