Sacramento Standard

Out of 63,682 students enrolled in Elk Grove Unified School District, 8 percent were in eighth-grade during the 2018-2019 school year, according to the California Department of Education.

The grade with the highest concentration of students was ninth-grade with 8.2 percent of all students.

According to numbers provided by the National Center for Education Services, California is expected to see a decrease of three percent in public elementary and secondary school enrollment from 2017-2029. The state expected to see the largest drop in enrollment is New Mexico with a projected 12 percent decrease, while Washington D.C. is projected to see a 14 percent increase over the same time period.

In a survey conducted by the Public Policy Institute of California, seven percent of respondents said large class sizes was the biggest issue facing California's K-12 schools. In the same survey, 50 percent of the respondents said they didn’t view the financial resources their local public school was getting as adequate.

Grade	Number of students	Total %
Kindergarten	4,849	7.6
First	4,393	6.9
Second	4,613	7.2
Third	4,623	7.3
Fourth	4,519	7.1
Fifth	4,895	7.7
Sixth	5,112	8
Seventh	5,190	8.1
Eighth	5,064	8
Ninth	5,218	8.2
10th	5,073	8
11th	4,977	7.8
12th	5,156	8.1