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Middle · Regular · Grades 7 to 8

James Rutter Middle, Sacramento, CA

CEP schoolJames Rutter Middle is a public middle school in Sacramento, part of Elk Grove Unified. It enrolled 871 students in 2024-25, with 19.4 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
871
Teachers (FTE)
45.0
Students per teacher
19.4
Grades
7 to 8

This school's ratio is 3.3 lower than the district figure of 22.7. The California average across schools is 21.9. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school19.4
District22.7
California21.9
United States15.3

School details

Address
7350 Palmer House Dr., Sacramento, CA 95828
Phone
(916)422-7590
District
Elk Grove Unified
County
Sacramento County
Level
Middle
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Virtual
No
Locale
Suburb: Large
NCES school ID
061233001412
Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Free lunch
696
Reduced-price lunch
68
Free or reduced-price lunch
76487.7% of enrollment.
Direct certification
509Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
Community Eligibility Provision
Yes (CEP school)

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

Related schools

Other middle schools in Elk Grove Unified

Middle schools elsewhere in Sacramento

We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.