16 public K-12 schools in Folsom from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.
National city placement
According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Folsom has more public-school enrollment than 86% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Folsom's average Resource Investment Index ranks above most listed cities even though its student-teacher ratio is on the more crowded side of the national city distribution. That is a useful mismatch, not a contradiction: counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance can lift the composite while classroom staffing remains comparatively tight. Families should inspect the component scores on each school profile instead of reading the city index as a shorthand for small classes.
11 of Folsom's 16 listed schools are elementary campuses. That composition means citywide enrollment and staffing averages are influenced more by early-grade operating patterns than by the city's 2 middle and 3 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.
Folsom's schools share one district authority while their average Resource Investment Index ranks at the 76th percentile among listed cities. Shared governance removes one source of policy variation, but it does not erase campus differences by grade span or enrollment. The 23-point gap between Folsom Lake High and Folsom High measures the remaining local spread. Use the district-level picture for common budget context, then compare the school components to see whether staffing, counseling, gifted-program reporting, or attendance accounts for each campus's position.
That concentration means Folsom-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Folsom school enrollment ranges from 47 students (lowest) to 2,901 students (highest), a spread of 2,854 students. That ratio is an extreme outlier spread — among the widest gaps observed anywhere in this dataset. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Folsom's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.
| # | School | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Folsom Lake High | 58 |
| 2. | Mangini Ranch Elementary | 55 |
| 3. | Russell Ranch Elementary | 55 |
| 4. | Empire Oaks Elementary | 55 |
| 5. | Oak Chan Elementary | 54 |
| 6. | Folsom Hills Elementary | 51 |
| 7. | Sandra J. Gallardo Elementary | 51 |
| 8. | Carl H. Sundahl Elementary | 48 |
| 9. | Natoma Station Elementary | 47 |
| 10. | Gold Ridge Elementary | 45 |
| 11. | Theodore Judah Elementary | 43 |
| 12. | Blanche Sprentz Elementary | 39 |
| 13. | Folsom Middle | 37 |
| 14. | Folsom High | 35 |
| 15. | Vista Del Lago High | 35 |
| 16. | Sutter Middle | 35 |
Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.
Folsom Lake High has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Folsom schools in this federal-data comparison at 58/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.
Folsom has 16 public schools with a total enrollment of 13,183 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 22.8:1.
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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.
