Summary:
ZIP code 95824 has five schools in Sacramento City Unified: four elementary schools serving K–6 and one middle school serving grades 7–8. Across the five schools, average proficiency is 21% in English language arts, 17% in math and 15% in science, compared with state results of 49%, 38% and 36%. The clearest overall finding is that every school’s reported All Grades result is below the state in all three subjects, with the group’s largest average gap in ELA.
Elder Creek Elementary is the strongest overall: its 2025–26 results are 32% in ELA, 31% in math and 24% in science, leading the next-highest school by 10, 11 and 7 percentage points, respectively. It is still below state results by 18 points in ELA, 8 in math and 12 in science. At the other end, Pacific Elementary has the lowest ELA and math scores, at 13% and 9%; Ethel I. Baker Elementary has the lowest science result, at 9%. The top-to-bottom spread is 18 points in ELA, 22 in math and 15 in science. Suy:u Elementary is a grade-level exception, leading the elementary schools in both ELA and math in 4th grade.
Recent changes are mixed, but the group’s average gap from the state widened in all three subjects between 2024–25 and 2025–26. Elder Creek gained 11 points in science, while Pacific gained 5; Will C. Wood Middle fell 6 points in science. SchoolDigger ranks Elder highest among these schools, at the 31st percentile, while Wood is at the 15th; Wood’s ranking fell from the 36th percentile in 2023–24. All five report free/reduced lunch eligible figures for 2024–25: 76% at Suy:u, compared with 83%–88% at the other schools. Elementary student–teacher ratios range from 22.9 at Elder and Suy:u to 26.4 at Pacific; these characteristics do not follow the same ordering as achievement.
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