New Pacific School - Roseville, Roseville CA

Original Research by School Decision on New Pacific School - Roseville

New Pacific School - Roseville is a small, tuition-free public charter school on Clinton Avenue in Roseville, operating under the nonprofit Pacific Charter Institute. Its charter was approved by the Roseville Joint Union High School District board in early 2022, publicly reported as a deliberate effort to create a small-school alternative distinct from the surrounding traditional public schools. The school is still building out its grade span: enrollment data shows students currently concentrated in the early elementary grades, with the upper middle school grades having very thin cohorts and no high school students yet enrolled. Publicly reported information indicates the school is adding grades each year, working toward a full TK-12 program, so a family considering it for a middle schooler or high schooler should ask directly what is available and what the timeline looks like for completing the grade ladder.

The pedagogical identity here is specific and worth understanding before enrolling. The school publicly describes its model as personalized, project-based learning housed in small, multi-age classrooms, layered with the Leader in Me leadership framework drawn from Franklin Covey's 7 Habits framework. There is also a stated emphasis on music, art, and social-emotional development. Parents who prefer structured, subject-by-subject, grade-level-distinct instruction will want to evaluate whether this approach is the right fit. Those drawn to a child-centered, relationship-intensive environment with a leadership character component may find it aligns well with what they are looking for.

On state test results, the picture from California's CAASPP assessment is mixed and deserves a candid look. Reading and language arts proficiency is stronger than math across all tested grades, with fifth grade producing the clearest results in both subjects. Math proficiency is noticeably low across most grades, and the seventh and eighth grade math results in particular are quite weak. Science results are available for fifth and eighth grade, with fifth grade performing considerably better than eighth. Taken together, when the school is placed against other districts in Placer County, its overall proficiency index falls in the bottom quartile of that group. Because many grade cohorts are small, individual results can move substantially from year to year with just a few students, and only one year of data is available, so trend analysis is not yet possible. A parent would benefit from asking the school directly how it monitors and responds to academic progress in math specifically.

A substantial share of students qualify for free or reduced-price meals, which places this school's economic profile closer to higher-need populations than many other Roseville schools. The student body is predominantly white with a meaningful Hispanic population and smaller shares of other groups. IEP and English learner data were not available in the records we reviewed, so parents of children with those needs should inquire with the school directly about services and staffing.

Graduation rate data does not yet apply here, since the school has not graduated a senior class. Civil rights outcome data was not available in what we reviewed.

Roseville itself is a mid-sized Placer County city roughly a half-hour's drive northeast of Sacramento. Publicly reported sources describe it as having evolved from a bedroom suburb into a regional economic center, with major employers in healthcare, technology, and retail, including Kaiser Permanente, Sutter Roseville Medical Center, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise. The local housing market sits well above the national median, though it runs meaningfully below the California state benchmark. Home values in the zip code have edged slightly downward year over year, while rents have risen modestly.

For a family drawn to a small campus, a project-based and leadership-oriented philosophy, and a school that is still actively taking shape, New Pacific School - Roseville offers a genuinely distinct option in the Placer County market. The math proficiency results are low enough that parents should ask concrete questions about how the school addresses those gaps, and the school's still-developing grade span means it may not yet serve all the years a family needs.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 319%

School 19% · district not reported

▼ 24 pts below state median · ▼ 42 pts below county median

Grade 425%

School 25% · district not reported

▼ 12 pts below state median · ▼ 32 pts below county median

Grade 547%

School 47% · district not reported

▲ 16 pts above state median · ▼ 1 pts below county median

Grade 622%

School 22% · district not reported

▼ 8 pts below state median · ▼ 30 pts below county median

Grade 78%

School 8% · district not reported

▼ 22 pts below state median · ▼ 41 pts below county median

Grade 818%

School 18% · district not reported

▼ 10 pts below state median · ▼ 30 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 329%

School 29% · district not reported

▼ 12 pts below state median · ▼ 28 pts below county median

Grade 445%

School 45% · district not reported

▲ 3 pts above state median · ▼ 15 pts below county median

Grade 560%

School 60% · district not reported

▲ 15 pts above state median · ▲ 2 pts above county median

Grade 644%

School 44% · district not reported

▲ 1 pts above state median · ▼ 19 pts below county median

Grade 746%

School 46% · district not reported

▲ 1 pts above state median · ▼ 22 pts below county median

Grade 827%

School 27% · district not reported

▼ 17 pts below state median · ▼ 35 pts below county median

Science

Grade 553%

School 53% · district not reported

▲ 25 pts above state median · ▲ 7 pts above county median

Grade 818%

School 18% · district not reported

▼ 7 pts below state median · ▼ 27 pts below county median

This schoolDistrict average, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.