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Umoja International Academy
Test scores
CAASPP 2023-24 . % met or exceeded standardWhat this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 27 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 12 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 47 and 36. Reading and writing scores are up about 3 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 2 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 27% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 39% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Umoja International Academy
Umoja International Academy operates as an intimate secondary school in Sacramento, California, part of Sacramento City Unified. Current enrollment sits at 412 students spanning grades 7 through 12. That puts it 51% leaner than the typical public school in California, which averages around 838 students.
Across the 73 schools in Sacramento City Unified (37,657 students total), Umoja International Academy accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
Looking at the student body, Umoja International Academy shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 46%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder is composed of 19% White, 15% Black, 9% multiracial, 8% Asian. By comparison, Sacramento County as a whole is about 24% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. Roughly 68% of students at Umoja International Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Umoja International Academy sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 39.0%; this one delivers 26.6%.
In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Sacramento County put median household income runs about $92,175, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Umoja International Academy is one of 387 public schools in Sacramento County (combined enrollment of about 259,342 students).
Nearest neighbor: Phoebe A. Hearst Elementary, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Umoja International Academy. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Umoja International Academy at 5th of 6; the average score across the group is 58.5%.
The campus sits in an inner-city setting.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Umoja International Academy has decreased 19%, going from 509 students in 2018 to 412 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 19.3:1 in 2018 to 17.2:1 in 2025.
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