Main Avenue Elementary, Sacramento CA

Original Research by School Decision on Main Avenue Elementary

Main Avenue Elementary is a neighborhood public school in Sacramento serving kindergarten through sixth grade. The school is small, with a student body drawn entirely from a single residential zip code. A substantial majority of students qualify for free or reduced-price meals, and the student body is economically and ethnically diverse: roughly two-fifths are Hispanic, over one-fifth are Asian, and roughly one-sixth are Black.

The school's recent academic performance, as measured by California state testing, is weak across all tested subjects and grade levels. In English language arts, proficiency rates range from the high teens to low-to-mid twenties. In mathematics, performance is lower and more variable: third and fourth graders show proficiency in the teens to mid-twenties, but fifth graders show single-digit proficiency. Sixth-grade math proficiency is in the low twenties. Science testing, available only for fifth grade, shows single-digit proficiency. Across all tested grades and subjects, the school's overall proficiency index falls in the bottom quartile among the county's tested schools.

A parent may want to look into this further with the school and district to understand what support systems are in place, what curriculum changes are underway, and how the school accounts for its starting population's needs.

The school building itself is new. The district completed a full reconstruction of Main Avenue Elementary as part of a bond-funded modernization program, and the campus now houses modern classrooms and facilities. The Robla Elementary School District passed a general obligation bond in 2020 that funded not only this school's rebuild but also major reconstruction of two other elementary schools and classroom modernization at two more. The bond is repaid through property taxes tied to assessed valuation. Anyone buying property in the district should expect this ongoing tax commitment.

The immediate neighborhood around Main Avenue is in a mid-market Sacramento area where home values are below state benchmarks and rents are modest by state standards. Housing affordability is moderate when measured against rent burden; the gap between mortgage cost and rent suggests that buying slightly undercuts renting for those able to put down a down payment, though both are not trivial against median income.

The school offers music instruction. No other specialized programs or course access data were available for this school. Special education enrollment and English learner counts were not reported. The school is a regular public school, not a charter, and does not hold Title I status, though family income data suggests the student body's economic need is substantial.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 315%

School 15% · District 22% · ▼ 7 pts below district

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

Grade 427%

School 27% · District 25% · ▲ 2 pts above district

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

Grade 55%

School 5% · District 16% · ▼ 11 pts below district

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

Grade 621%

School 21% · District 22% · ▼ 1 pts below district

▼ 9 pts below state median · ▼ 9 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 315%

School 15% · District 21% · ▼ 7 pts below district

▼ 26 pts below state median · ▼ 21 pts below county median

Grade 424%

School 24% · District 28% · ▼ 3 pts below district

▼ 18 pts below state median · ▼ 15 pts below county median

Grade 519%

School 19% · District 29% · ▼ 10 pts below district

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

Grade 625%

School 25% · District 34% · ▼ 9 pts below district

▼ 19 pts below state median · ▼ 18 pts below county median

Science

Grade 59%

School 9% · District 18% · ▼ 9 pts below district

▼ 19 pts below state median · ▼ 16 pts below county median

This schoolRobla Elementary, 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.