Zehnder Ranch Elementary
Elk Grove, CA · Middle School
Zehnder Ranch Elementary is a middle school in Elk Grove, CA with 1,035 students enrolled and a 68% proficiency rate. Part of Elk Grove Unified. NCES data from the U.S. Department of Education.
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About This School
Zehnder Ranch Elementary is a middle school located in Elk Grove, California. The school serves 1,035 students. The student-to-teacher ratio is 25.2:1.
According to EDFacts assessment data, 68% of students meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading.
24% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Zehnder Ranch Elementary is part of the Elk Grove Unified in California.
How This School Compares
Zehnder Ranch Elementary has 1,035 students enrolled, making it larger than the average school in Elk Grove Unified (924 students). Its 68% proficiency rate is 16 percentage points above the district average of 52%. Compared to the California state average of 45%, the school performs 23 points higher. The 25.2:1 student-teacher ratio is above the national average of 16:1.
Frequently Asked Questions
Zehnder Ranch Elementary has 1,035 students enrolled. The student-to-teacher ratio is 25.2:1.
According to EDFacts data, 68% of students at Zehnder Ranch Elementary meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading assessments.
Zehnder Ranch Elementary is part of the Elk Grove Unified in Elk Grove, California. You can view all schools in this district on the district page.
All data on this page comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessment results. These are official federal datasets published by the U.S. Department of Education.
School profiles are built from NCES directory data and EDFacts assessment results. Proficiency rates reflect combined math and reading performance. Graduation rates are reported for high schools with available data.
For this entity, the underlying data on this page comes from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. The breakdown above is the federal record; the paragraphs below add the per-entity context that makes the headline numbers usable for a real decision rather than just a data lookup.
Every number on this page links back to NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts; the methodology page describes the inputs, refresh cadence, and known limitations of the underlying data product.
For readers using this page as a decision input, the related-entity pages elsewhere on the site provide the comparison set. The most useful comparison for this entity is typically a peer within U.S. public schools and districts with similar size, similar exposure, or similar geography — not the national-level summary alone.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2026.