Education
The Sacramento Region has over 700 schools and an enrollment of over 395,000 students within the K-12 system. The most recent data of high school graduation rates shows that at nearly 86 percent, the Sacramento
Region has a slightly higher percentage of graduates than the state (83 percent). In terms of SAT scores, the Sacramento Region averages higher than California with a total average score of 1520 for the 2005-2006 school year in comparison to 1506 for the state.
Twenty-nine percent of the Sacramento Region population aged 25 years and over in the year 2005 held a bachelor’s degree or higher level of education. The Region has a varied offering of public and private postsecondary institutions, including University of California, Davis and Sacramento State as the major four-year universities (with approximately 30,000 students each in the 2006 Fall term) and eight California community colleges.
This section provides an overview of K–12 and postsecondary education in the Sacramento Region, including K–12 enrollment by school type, high school
graduation rates, SAT scores, educational attainment, as well as higher education institution enrollment and degrees granted.
Selected Sacramento region photos by Tom Myer's Photography. More Sacramento images can be seen at www.tommyersphotography.com