Walnut Grove Elementary

Walnut Grove Elementary operates as a micro-enrollment elementary school in Walnut Grove, California, operated by River Delta Joint Unified. Current enrollment sits at 131 students spanning grades K through 6. That puts it 72% below the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Within River Delta Joint Unified, which oversees 11 schools and 1,705 students, Walnut Grove Elementary is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Walnut Grove Elementary logs that nearly all students (82%) are Hispanic. Other groups include 10% White, 3% Black, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 24% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Walnut Grove Elementary reports 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 93% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Sacramento County (around 63%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Walnut Grove Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 24.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 19.3%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Sacramento County) records that median household income runs about $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 Walnut Grove Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: New Hope Elementary, around 4.8 miles off. Within ten miles, there are 5 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Walnut Grove Elementary ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 46.5%.

Walnut Grove Elementary operates from a countryside location.

Over the past 7-year window. Walnut Grove Elementary's enrollment has contracted 21% since 2018, when it stood at 165 (now 131). Class-load math has pulled in: from 20.6:1 in 2018 to 16.4:1 in 2025.

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