Valley Oaks Elementary

Set in Galt, California, Valley Oaks Elementary is a medium-sized elementary campus, operated by Galt Joint Union Elementary. It educates 541 students across grades K through 6.

Galt Joint Union Elementary runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 3,441 students. Valley Oaks Elementary is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Valley Oaks Elementary lists that 84% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 11% White. By comparison, Sacramento County as a whole is about 24% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Valley Oaks Elementary has 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 23.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Valley Oaks Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 69% of students at Valley Oaks Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Valley Oaks Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 38.3%; this one delivers 35.9%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Sacramento County indicate 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%. Across Sacramento County's 387 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,342 students), Valley Oaks Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Vernon E. Greer Elementary, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Valley Oaks Elementary. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Valley Oaks Elementary ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 45.8%.

The school occupies a town-based site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 5%: 567 students in 2018 compared to 541 in 2025. Class-load math has widened: from 20.0:1 in 2018 to 23.5:1 in 2025.

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