Westside Preparatory Charter

As a small junior high in Rio Linda, California, Westside Preparatory Charter works with 480 students from grades 7 through 8, run under Twin Rivers Unified. That puts it 27% below the typical public school in California, which averages around 659 students.

Twin Rivers Unified comprises 44 schools with combined enrollment of 24,770 students; Westside Preparatory Charter is among them.

On the student-mix side, Westside Preparatory Charter lists that the largest single group is Hispanic at 41%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school lists 25% White, 11% Black, 11% Asian, 9% multiracial. By comparison, Sacramento County as a whole is about 24% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 20.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 81% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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 north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, Westside Preparatory Charter performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.2%, the actual is 41.5%, a residual of +10.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Sacramento County put the typical household earns roughly $92,175 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Westside Preparatory Charter is one of 387 public schools in Sacramento County (combined enrollment of about 259,342 students).

Westside Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Westside Preparatory Charter. On composite proficiency, Westside Preparatory Charter comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 36.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area. Westside Preparatory Charter is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Westside Preparatory Charter has ticked up 25%, going from 385 students in 2018 to 480 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 35% to 25% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 25.5:1 in 2018 to 20.3:1 in 2025.

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