Elk Grove Unified School District


The Elk Grove Unified School District is a school district in southern Sacramento County, California, United States.
The Elk Grove Unified School District is the fifth largest school district in California and the largest in northern California.
Located in southern Sacramento County, the district covers. For the 2007–08 school year, the district served more than 61,000 students. More than 80 languages and dialects are spoken by over 63,000 Elk Grove Unified students.
The district has 64 schools: 39 elementary schools, 9 middle schools, 9 high schools, 4 alternative education schools, an adult school, a special education school, and a charter school.
The district is governed by a publicly elected seven-member Board of Education. District Superintendent Christopher R. Hoffman, has served Elk Grove Unified since 2014. Mr. Hoffman is the sixth superintendent to serve the district since unification on July 1, 1959.

History

Today the Elk Grove Unified School District's boundaries cover, stretching almost from the Sacramento River to the foothills of Amador County.
The district is the result of the unification of smaller districts that date back to the 19th century.
The elementary school district known as "Elk Grove" was formed in 1866 and is one of the oldest in the state of California. The Elk Grove Union High School District followed almost 30 years later opening in 1892.
The unification of the Elk Grove district took place in 1959 under the leadership of County Superintendent T.R. Smedberg, a former superintendent of Elk Grove Union High School District. The elementary districts that unified with the high school district included: Elk Grove, Sierra-Enterprise, Franklin, Cosumnes, Dillard, Florin, and Pleasant Grove.
Elk Grove Unified has only had six superintendents in its 52-year history.

High schools

Each of the middle schools below is fed into a high school above.
Elk Grove Unified School District contracts with the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department as a law enforcement service for its schools and support facilities. Other local agencies, such as Elk Grove Police Department, Sacramento Police Department, and Sacramento County Sheriff's Department, provide support for all schools within their jurisdictions. The department works 24 hours a day, seven days a week. They are dispatched by their own communications center on Gerber Road.