Folsom Cordova K-8 Community Charter, Mather CA

Original Research by School Decision on Folsom Cordova K-8 Community Charter

Folsom Cordova K-8 Community Charter is a small charter school serving kindergarten through eighth grade in Mather, an unincorporated community built on the site of the former Mather Air Force Base. The school sits in Sacramento County and is part of the Folsom-Cordova Unified School District, which also covers the communities of Folsom and Rancho Cordova.

The school's academic performance shows mixed results across the tested grades. In English language arts, proficiency rates range widely by grade, with a school-wide rate around the midpoint. Fifth grade performs strongest in ELA at around three-fifths of students meeting proficiency standards. Middle school grades, particularly seventh and eighth, show lower rates. In mathematics, performance is generally weaker, with third and fifth grades reaching around half the students meeting standards, while sixth and eighth grades see proficiency rates in the low thirties. Science testing data available only for fifth and eighth grades, showing fifth-grade students performing slightly better than eighth-graders. When proficiency rates are averaged across all tested subjects and grades, the school sits in the top quartile of schools district-wide in Sacramento County, suggesting stronger overall performance relative to peer schools in the county, though this reflects the average across mixed grade-level results.

The school serves a small population across its grade span, with roughly equal enrollment in most grades but slightly larger seventh and eighth-grade classes. About one-third of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The student body is fairly diverse: nearly half the enrollment identifies as white, about a quarter as Hispanic, and smaller shares as multiracial, Asian, or Black. Data on the school's English learner population and students with IEPs were not available.

Mather itself is a newer, primarily residential community with a quiet, close-knit character shaped by its post-base-closure redevelopment. The area offers substantial green space, parks, and trails rather than traditional street-oriented development. Housing values in the zip code are moderate for the Sacramento region, though above the national benchmark. The nearby Mather Regional Park and Sports Complex, along with access to the SacRT Gold Line light rail, serve as anchoring civic assets. Residents of newer neighborhoods here tend to commute to jobs in Rancho Cordova, Folsom, or Sacramento in health care, technology, and manufacturing.

The Folsom-Cordova Unified School District recently passed two major facility improvement bonds in November that will fund renovation and modernization across elementary and secondary facilities, representing ongoing investment in school infrastructure across the district. The district is also expanding with four new future schools planned to serve growing residential areas in Folsom Ranch and Rancho Cordova. These district-level changes signal growth and capital investment families would factor into their long-term view of this school's context.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 353%

School 53% · District 57% · ▼ 4 pts below district

▲ 10 pts above state median · ▲ 14 pts above county median

Grade 553%

School 53% · District 50% · ▲ 3 pts above district

▲ 23 pts above state median · ▲ 26 pts above county median

Grade 629%

School 29% · District 45% · ▼ 16 pts below district

▼ 2 pts below state median · ▼ 2 pts below county median

Grade 739%

School 39% · District 47% · ▼ 9 pts below district

▲ 8 pts above state median · ▲ 10 pts above county median

Grade 832%

School 32% · District 45% · ▼ 13 pts below district

▲ 4 pts above state median · ▲ 10 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 347%

School 47% · District 56% · ▼ 9 pts below district

▲ 7 pts above state median · ▲ 11 pts above county median

Grade 559%

School 59% · District 63% · ▼ 4 pts below district

▲ 13 pts above state median · ▲ 18 pts above county median

Grade 664%

School 64% · District 55% · ▲ 9 pts above district

▲ 20 pts above state median · ▲ 21 pts above county median

Grade 739%

School 39% · District 59% · ▼ 20 pts below district

▼ 7 pts below state median · ▼ 1 pts below county median

Grade 846%

School 46% · District 61% · ▼ 15 pts below district

▲ 1 pts above state median · ▲ 8 pts above county median

Science

Grade 559%

School 59% · District 48% · ▲ 11 pts above district

▲ 31 pts above state median · ▲ 34 pts above county median

Grade 832%

School 32% · District 45% · ▼ 13 pts below district

▲ 6 pts above state median · ▲ 10 pts above county median

Social studies

Grade 871%

School 71% · District 65% · ▲ 6 pts above district

▲ 22 pts above state median · ▲ 24 pts above county median

This schoolFolsom-Cordova Unified, 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.