Sacramento County Office of Education operates 6 public schools serving 938 students, placing it among the smallest districts in California. The school portfolio breaks down into 6 combined schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Sacramento County.
The funding mix is 44.4% local, 39.8% state, and 15.8% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
a 208:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 69.4% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 39.4% Hispanic or Latino, 23.7% African American, 20.9% White across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Foundations Academy, with a diversity index of 74.5/100.
Its largest campus is North Area Community, enrolling 280 students (34% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Palmiter Special Education, at 41 students, a 7x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
North Area Community accounts for 29.9% of all Sacramento County Office of Education student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Sacramento County Office of Education-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: combined. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how the district allocates 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.
Sacramento County Office of Education school enrollment varies 6.8× across entities
Sacramento County Office of Education school enrollment ranges from 41 students (lowest) to 280 students (highest), a spread of 239 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous campus portfolio, most districts have a wider mix of school sizes. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Sacramento County Office of Education reports 62.5% free-lunch eligibility
The reported share sits between 62.5% and 75%, above a simple majority but below the highest descriptive band used here. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.
Sacramento County Office of Education student-counselor ratio is 208:1 — low (typically associated with meeting or exceeding the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommended 250:1 benchmark, which correlates with stronger college and career counseling capacity)
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment, districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.
Sacramento County Office of Education chronic absenteeism rate is 69.4% — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Values this far above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.
Comparisons are relative to Sacramento County Office of Education's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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How many schools are in Sacramento County Office of Education?
Sacramento County Office of Education has 6 schools, including 6 combined. Total enrollment is 938 students.
What is the demographic composition of Sacramento County Office of Education?
Sacramento County Office of Education students are 39.4% Hispanic or Latino, 23.7% African American, 20.9% White, 4.2% Asian, averaged across 6 schools. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.