The city of Sacramento is known for being as diverse as the state to which it is the capital of. The California capital city of Sacramento provides its residents with a wide array of educational opportunities; from public to private, secular or non, Sacramento’s learning facilities aim to build solid educational foundations for their young residents to build upon. 

Sacramento believes firmly that the educated and well-formed citizens of tomorrow are the city’s greatest asset and natural resource. Furthering education is the top priority of the Californian community. There are numerous school districts throughout Sacramento, the city and the county as well. We have gathered information and website links on many of this districts and institutions, so you may have all the facts available when choosing to make Sacramento your new home. Please, take some time and review the list of schools and districts residing within Sacramento California.

Sacramento Public School

Sacramento City Unified School District
http://www.scusd.edu
As Sacramento grew, the district grew and now is among the 10 largest school districts in California serving about 50,000 K-12 students and 20,000 adult education students. Sacramento City is “unified” meaning kindergarten classes through 12th grade students are served. Along with neighborhood schools, there are specialized programs such as basic or fundamental, alternative schools, Waldorf methods, charter, JROTC, international study, criminal justice, and independent study
(This information is cited from http://www.scusd.edu. For this and more information, please visit this website.).

Center Unified School District (CUSD)
http://www.centerusd.k12.ca.us
is a relatively small school district, located at the northern edge of Sacramento County, California, in the town of Antelope. Center High, the primary high school for the district (McClellan is designated as an alternative school, intended to help at-risk students graduate) was recently ranked the third-best public school in the state. Its student publications program, which includes the Blue & Gold newspaper, and The Epic yearbook, has won national awards, top-10 rankings in every year between 1996 and 2006 (except 2004).
(This information is cited from http://www.centerusd.k12.ca.us. For this and more information, please visit this website.)

Natomas Unified School District
http://www.natomas.k12.ca.us
is located in northwestern Sacramento, California. It is the main school district of Natomas, a suburb of Sacramento, California.
(This information is cited from http://www.natomas.k12.ca.us. For this and more information, please visit this website.)

San Juan Unified School District
http://www.sanjuan.edu
San Juan Unified School District is a very large school district in Sacramento County, California that serves Arden-Arcade, Carmichael, Orangevale, Citrus Heights, Fair Oaks, and parts of Rancho Cordova and parts of Sacramento.
(This information is cited from http://www.sanjuan.edu. For this and more information, please visit this website.)

Grant Joint Union High School District
http://www.grant.k12.ca.us/schools
Information can be found through the link above.

Rio Linda Union School District
http://www.rlusd.org
The Rio Linda Union School District is an award-winning district with 10,500 elementary students in the north Sacramento area. Serving the communities of Rio Linda, Foothill Farms, North Highlands, McClellan Park and North Natomas, we are Sacramento County's largest elementary district.

Considered an educational innovator, the RLUSD offers a broad range of programs to enhance student achievement, community involvement and lifelong learning. the RLUSD has grown from a one-room schoolhouse established in 1914 to a large, suburban district with 22 schools for K-6, but what hasn't changed is our friendly caring attitude toward our students, staff and parents.
(This information is cited from http://www.rlusd.org. For this and more information, please visit this website.)

North Sacramento Elementary School District
http://www.nssd.k12.ca.us
A growing understanding of - and concern about - racial achievement disparities in the North Sacramento schools has inspired us to study educational literature and research in order to better understand the achievement gap and what we must do to eliminate it. Through the work over the last few years, we have begun to examine, individually and collectively, our unconscious, often deeply held assumptions about matters of race; to explore and acknowledge how race privilege impacts our personal lives and how it operates in our schools; and to recognize and acknowledge the attitudes, behaviors, structures, and systems that benefit white students, but may work against the success of students of color. We are committed to making the North Sacramento District work for all children.

The North Sacramento School District has an enrollment of nearly 5,000 children, K-8. There are eight elementary schools, a K-8 charter school and a Community Day School. The district operates a State Preschool Program, a Children's Center, and Programs for the Moderate-Severe, Emotional Disturbed, Mild Moderate, Learning Delayed and Communicably Handicapped. The district has extensive compensatory education programs funded through state and federal sources.
(This information is cited from http://www.nssd.k12.ca.us. For this and more information, please visit this website.)

Del Paso Heights School District
http://www.delpasoschool.org/home.aspx
The school district is part of two of Sacramento's Northeastern neighborhoods, Natomas on the West and Del Paso Heights on the East. There are approximately 250 preschool students and 1600 K-6 students. The Del Paso Heights School District student population has been in flux over the last ten years. In this time the population has changed from a predominately African American population by an influx of Asian, predominantly Hmong and Lao and more recently an influx of Latino students. We take pride in serving such a diverse community and feel privileged to work with parents and the community in educating our children.
(This information is cited from http://www.delpasoschool.org/home.aspx. For this and more information, please visit this website.)

Robla School District
http://www.robla.k12.ca.us
The mission of the Robla School District, in cooperation with its families and community, is to provide a safe and caring environment where every student succeeds in learning a balanced core curriculum. Strong effective teaching, meaningful learning activities and partnerships with parents develop confident, thoughtful and responsible citizens. Students read, solve problems, access information and work together to communicate ideas as valued members of a diverse community.
(This information is cited from http://www.robla.k12.ca.us. For this and more information, please visit this website.)

Elk Grove Unified School District
http://www.egusd.k12.ca.us 
The Valley Hi/North Laguna area is served by the Elk Grove Unified School District, despite being in the city limits of Sacramento and not in Elk Grove. It is the fifth largest school district in California and the largest in Northern California. Located in southern Sacramento County, the district covers 320 square miles. Elk Grove Unified is a top performing district recognized throughout California and the nation as a leader in progressive education. It is one of the few districts in California to offer class size reduction for all students in kindergarten through sixth grade.
(This information is cited from http://www.egusd.k12.ca.us. For this and more information, please visit this website.)

Sacramento Private Schools

Shalom School
http://www.shalomschool.org
The only Jewish day school in Sacramento; Shalom School is committed to the ideals of academic excellence, personal growth, social awareness, and Jewish and American values. Our goals are to instill in children knowledge of Judaism and the world; to foster positive feelings about themselves as individuals and as Jews; to develop a sense of commitment to the Jewish community and society; and to prepare them for success in adulthood through the acquisition of knowledge and academic skills. Shalom School is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC), an accrediting organization for public and private schools. During their last visit, the evaluating team left Shalom School stating we were the best school that they have visited in 25 years.
(This information is cited from http://www.shalomschool.org. For this and more information, please visit this website.)

Roman Catholic Diocese of Sacremento
http://www.diocese-sacramento.org 
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Sacramento is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in the northern California region of the United States. It comprises the counties of Siskiyou, Modoc, Trinity, Shasta, Lassen, Tehama, Plumas, Glenn, Butte, Sierra, Colusa, Sutter, Yuba, Nevada, Yolo, Placer, Solano, Sacramento, El Dorado, and Amador, and his headquartered in the City of Sacramento.
(This information is cited from http://www.diocese-sacramento.org . For this and more information, please visit this website.)

St. Francis High School
http://www.stfrancishs.org
Established in 1940, is a four-year, all-female high school in Sacramento, California, USA It is the only Catholic high school in Sacramento affiliated with the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sacramento, and draws students from over fifty private and public feeder schools in the California counties of Sacramento, Yolo, El Dorado, and Placer.
(This information is cited from http://www.stfrancishs.org. For this and more information, please visit this website.)

Loretto High School
http://www.loretto.net 
Loretto High School is a small, Roman Catholic, college-preparatory school for young women in Sacramento, California. It is located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sacramento. The approximately 550-member student body is known for its religious purity, chastity and academic prowess. It is independently owned and run by the order. It was founded in 1955 by the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
(This information is cited from http://www.loretto.net. For this and more information, please visit this website.)

Christian Brothers High School
http://www.cbhs-sacramento.org
Christian Brothers High School is a private, Roman Catholic high school in Sacramento, California. It is located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sacramento. Christian Brothers High School - Sacramento was founded in 1876 by the De La Salle Christian Brothers, a lay religious teaching order of the Catholic Church. The long tradition of Lasallian education dates back to the seventeenth century to the founding of the Christian Brothers' schools whose goal was to provide "a human and Christian education to the young, especially the poor". Christian Brothers has built a distinguished reputation of excellence in education, always in a nurturing, faith filled environment.
(This information is cited from http://www.cbhs-sacramento.org. For this and more information, please visit this website.)

Jesuit High School
http://www.jhssac.org
Jesuit High School is a Roman Catholic college preparatory that actively seeks, educates, and nurtures young men from a wide variety of ethnic, socio-economic, and religious backgrounds in the greater Sacramento area. In the tradition of St. Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Society of Jesus, Jesuit education is committed to the development of the whole person through a challenging educational experience of academic excellence, co-curricular involvement, spiritual and religious formation. Supporting the role of parents as primary educators, our entire school program is dedicated to developing conscientious leaders and agents of change who are intellectually distinguished, morally courageous, and compassionate in service to others for the greater glory of God.
(This information is cited from http://www.jhssac.org. For this and more information, please visit this website.)

Cristo Rey High School
http://www.cristoreysacramento.org 
Cristo Rey High School Sacramento is a Catholic, co-educational, college preparatory school. The school provides quality education for youth from low income families. A unique component of Cristo Rey High School is the Work Study Program which engages the business community in the Sacramento area in empowering highly motivated young people with professional skills. Cristo Rey High School is dedicated to the advancement of the human and intellectual capacities, as well as the religious and the cultural heritages of all the families it serves.

Sacramento is one of 12 cities in the United States with a Cristo Rey Network High School, the first of which was founded by the Jesuits in Chicago in 1996 on a reduced tuition model designed to be accessible to those otherwise unable to afford conventionally-priced private education.

Additionally within the city and surrounding suburbs are 30 "parochial" schools - i.e., schools attached to a parish.
(This information is cited from http://www.cristoreysacramento.org. For this and more information, please visit this website.)

Sacremento Country Day School
http://www.saccds.org
is an independent, co-educational, college preparatory school serving pre-kindergarten through grade 12 since 1964. SCDS is located in the unincorporated Arden Arcade neighborhood of Sacramento, California, and serves students from all surrounding areas, including Carmichael, Davis, Elk Grove, Penryn, and Shingle Springs. The mission of Sacramento Country Day School is to provide a traditional, college preparatory education to students from a variety of backgrounds that possess both strong academic potential and respect for others, and to develop in them the qualities of self-confidence, creativity, integrity, and responsibility.

We are a member of the National Association of Independent Schools and one of only two schools in the region fully accredited by the California Association of Independent Schools and the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. The School embraces the traditional ideals of a liberal arts education. We encourage our students to develop the full range of their capabilities – intellectual, physical, creative, social, and moral.

One of the hallmarks of Country Day is the close mentoring relationships that develop between teachers and students, and with a student-teacher ratio of 10:1, every child has a “front-row” seat. Students have full access to a broad array of academic, athletic, and extracurricular programs. Our sports teams adhere to a “no cut” policy, and our College Counselor works one-on-one with students in the upper grades to ensure that they receive the most expert and attentive advice during the all-important college admission process. All of our graduates continue on to higher education, with many accepted to the most selective colleges and universities in the nation. In addition, our intimate and nurturing environment promotes deep and lasting friendships among our students, faculty, alumni, and their families.
(This information is cited from http://www.saccds.org. For this and more information, please visit this website.)

Al-Arqam Islamic School
http://www.alarqamislamicschool.org
The Al-Arqam mission is to have an educational institution that teaches and nurtures the "whole" child - intellectually, emotionally and physically, and to instill in each student the principles of submission to the Will of Allah as an essential element in achieving excellence academically and personally.

The prime objective of the institution is to meet the educational needs of the Muslim children living within the greater Sacramento area.

The school's academic program offers all core subjects (Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies), also Arabic as a 2nd Language. We emphasize the use of the Arabic language, spoken and written, in order to increase the awareness of the Qur'an and its meaning. Our religious program propagates the daily practice of Islam as a comprehensive way of life, following the example of the Prophet Muhamad (peace be upon him).

A prime school objective is to develop in each student a strong moral character, and build on their individual self worth, discipline, independence, ethical standards, love of learning, sense of personal efficacy and responsibility as a citizen of the religious, local, national and global communities.
(This information is cited from http://www.alarqamislamicschool.org. For this and more information, please visit this website.)

Sacramento Colleges

California State University, Sacremento
http://www.csus.edu
California State University Sacramento, more commonly known as Sacramento State, is the major local university. It is one of the twenty-three campuses of the California State University system. Sacramento State is a vibrant metropolitan university that is among the largest campuses in the California State University system. Sacramento State remains one of the nation's best higher education values, with student fees among the lowest in the nation. About half of our students receive some form of financial assistance.
(This information is cited from http://www.csus.edu. For this and more information, please visit this website.)

National University
http://www.nationaluniversitysystem.org
(NU) is an accredited, private university based in San Diego, California with 17 regional campuses located throughout the state and one in Nevada. The university was founded in 1971, and is the second-largest private university in the state of California with the third largest graduate program in the country. National University has prepared more candidates for teaching credentials than any other university in California over the past seven years. According to data from the eighth annual report of the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) released on November 5, 2007, NU has surpassed nationwide benchmarks measuring the level of academic educational standards at four-year colleges and universities six years in a row.
(This information is cited from http://www.nationaluniversitysystem.org. For this and more information, please visit this website.)

University of Sacramento
http://www.universityofsacramento.org
Sacramento is home to an unaccredited private institution, University of Sacramento, a Roman Catholic university run by the Legionaries of Christ. Currently, the university offers course work in graduate programs.
(This information is cited from http://www.universityofsacramento.org. For this and more information, please visit this website.)

William Jessup University
http://www.jessup.edu
is a small non-denominational Christian college located in Rocklin, California. It is the only evangelical Christian college between Fresno and Redding.

University of the Pacific: McGeorge School of Law 
http://www.mcgeorge.edu
is a private, ABA-accredited law school in the Oak Park neighborhood of the city of Sacramento, California, commonly known as "Pacific McGeorge" as it is part of the University of the Pacific which is located in Stockton, California. Originally founded in 1924, the school merged with and became part of the University of the Pacific in 1966. Pacific McGeorge is currently ranked among the top 100 in the U.S. News & World Report annual ranking of U.S. law schools.
Additionally, Pacific McGeorge is ranked among the nation’s Top 20 in both Advocacy and International Law programs in the 2007 U.S. News & World Report annual guide to “America’s Best Graduate Schools”.
(This information is cited from http://www.mcgeorge.edu. For this and more information, please visit this website.)

University of California 
http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu
has a campus, UC Davis, in nearby Davis and also has a graduate center in downtown Sacramento. The UC Davis Graduate School of Management (GSM) is located in downtown Sacramento on One Capital Mall. Many students, about 400 out of 517, at the UC Davis GSM are working professionals and are completing their MBA part-time.[10] The part-time program is ranked in the top-20 and is well known for its small class size, world class faculty, and involvement in the business community. UC also maintains the University of California Sacramento Center (UCCS (http://uccs.universityofcalifornia.edu) for undergraduate and graduate studies. Similar to the UC's Washington DC program, "Scholar Interns" engage in both academic studies and as well as internships, often with the state government.
(This information is cited from http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu. For this and more information, please visit this website.)

University of Southern California
http://www.usc.edu/schools/sppd/programs/sacramento
The private University of Southern California has an extension in downtown Sacramento, called the State Capital Center. The campus, taught by main campus professors, Sacramento-based professors, and practioners in the State Capitol and state agencies, offers Master of Public Administration and Master of Public Health degrees.
(This information is cited from http://www.usc.edu/schools/sppd/programs/sacramento. For this and more information, please visit this website.)

Los Rios Community College District 
http://www.losrios.edu
is a special district providing administrative services and governance for the community colleges serving the greater Sacramento area and points east all the way to Lake Tahoe. Below are links to the 4 community colleges that make up Los Rios Community College District.

*American River College 
*Sacramento City College 
*Consumnes River College 
*Folsom Lake College

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