Vencil Brown Elementary

Vencil Brown Elementary, a modestly sized elementary school in Roseville, California, overseen by Roseville City Elementary, instructs 343 students, covering grades K through 5. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Vencil Brown Elementary sits 26% smaller than that benchmark.

Within Roseville City Elementary, which oversees 21 schools and 12,306 students, Vencil Brown Elementary is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Vencil Brown Elementary logs that 50% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school reports 24% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, 11% Asian, 3% Black. By comparison, Placer County as a whole is about 69% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school lists 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.4:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 42% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Placer County runs at roughly 33%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Vencil Brown Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 54.7%, the actual is 56.5%, a residual of +1.8 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Placer County) logs that median household earnings sit near $115,998, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Vencil Brown Elementary is one of 123 public schools in Placer County (combined enrollment of about 70,590 students).

The closest other public school is George A. Buljan Middle, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Vencil Brown Elementary at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 52.9%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 12%: 391 students in 2018 compared to 343 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 58% to 50% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 21.7:1 in 2018 to 20.4:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, members of the Vencil Brown Elementary community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.