Williamson Elementary

Vision: Ensure high levels of learning for all students.

Mission: In partnership with our students, parents, and community, we are dedicated to becoming a model PLC school, ensuring that all students gain the knowledge and skills necessary to demonstrate outstanding personal and academic achievement.

Williamson Elementary School is located east of Sacramento along the Highway 50 corridor in the city of Rancho Cordova. Williamson Elementary has a rich heritage of community pride, family involvement, and neighborhood charm. The campus presents an inviting landscape with beautiful large trees and colorful murals. Located in Rancho Cordova, Williamson is one of twenty-one elementary schools in the Folsom Cordova Unified School District. The district serves approximately 20,500 students.

Williamson Elementary has a very diverse population of students. As of September 2024, our enrollment is 460 students in preschool through 5th grade. Our school demographics are 38.04% Hispanic, 34.35% White, 10.65% 2 or more races, 7.17% African American, 6.09% Asian, and 1.74% Filipino.

Our robust English Language Advisory Committee (ELAC) group serves our large population of English language learners. Our school has many different cultural groups and languages including Spanish, Russian, Armenian, Ukrainian, Dari, and many others. Due to the percentage of students who have Spanish-speaking parents, we translate all school-to-home communication into Spanish. ParentSquare, our school messaging service, allows families to translate all of our messages into their preferred language.

Our teaching staff comprises 20 general education teachers, 3 special education teachers, 1 Instructional Coach, 2 Intervention teachers, 1 MTSS Teacher, 1 PE teacher, 1 Art teacher, 1 Spanish teacher, 1 Science teacher, 3 music teachers, 1 preschool teacher, 3 Spanish-speaking aides, 2 Russian-speaking aides, and 2 Title I aides; one of which speaks Russian. Our administrative team is comprised of a full-time Principal and Assistant Principal. Our hard-working staff strives to provide an exceptional educational experience. We also have a Federal Preschool, paid-for before and after school care called Student Care, and a federally funded sliding scale fee after-school program called ASES.

Learning extends beyond the core curriculum of reading, math, social studies, and science. All students in TK-5th grade receive a trimester each of Art, Spanish, and Science. Our fourth and 5th-grade students receive twice-weekly music instruction, and all grades enjoy participating in PE. Social-emotional learning is an essential component of the overall educational program at Williamson and we use a district-adopted curriculum to teach social-emotional skills, our school participates in the Positive Behavior Intervention Systems (PBIS) program to support consistent messaging about positive choices and clear expectations, and we have monthly character assemblies to discuss positive character traits and citizenship. We commit to helping students learn to show respect, make good decisions, and use kind words to solve problems. Our school saying is, ""Character is, who you are even when no one is watching.""

The strong parent and community support we receive helps reinforce the goal of providing an excellent educational program in a warm, caring, and safe environment. We encourage our community to continue to assist Williamson in our efforts to reach our goals for ongoing improvement. We actively seek out new community partnerships to leverage connections for student support. We know with everyone's support and assistance our students will become positive members of our community for years to come. Success is everyone's job!