Moving in Sacramento area, working in Rancho Cordova

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Del Dayo and Sierra Oaks are excellent schools. At both schools almost 40% of the kids have parents who went to grad school. That is more than twice the average for the region. Both schools are near CSUS, so these are the schools where the Profs at CSUS send there kids. CSUS isn't moving anywhere. These schools have been strong since they opened and they will probably be strong 40 years from now.

2008 Base API School Report - Del Dayo Elementary

2008 Base API School Report (CA Department of Education)

2008 Base API School Report - Sierra Oaks Elementary

2008 Base API School Report (CA Department of Education)

If you are looking for new housing in the Del Dayo area, look at Jacob and Fair Oaks Blvd, next to Jesuit.




Immediately backing the River in Rancho Cordova off of Mira Del Rio Drive or off W. La Loma Drive, there are some really nice homes facing the River. But the neighborhood goes downhill rapidly.

Historically Rancho Cordova was a military town. When Rancho Cordova was built most of the housing was built for the former Mather AFB. The schools were never really strong in the Rancho Cordova portion of the Folsom Cordova School District. Gold River orginally was part of Folsom Cordova but the developer shifted it to the San Juan District to keep the kids out of the poor performing Rancho Cordova Schools. In Mather and Anatolia, you will again notice that the schools were in the Elk Grove Unified School District. Again the issue was keeping the kids out of the middling Rancho Cordova schools. The schools in the Folsom part of the Folsom Cordova School District are excellent. For a while here was a movement in Folsom to break the district up.

California School Performance Maps

Its not that the schools in Rancho Cordova are horrible. But you can probably get a bigger, newer home for less money in a neighborhood with schools of comparble strength in Elk Grove as opposed to what you will get in Rosemont, La Riveria or College Glen. But if you can afford the Pocket Area, and Gold River, going North of the American River will give you access to stronger neighborhoods with a price point closer to Gold River and the Pocket Area.