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Sacramento City Unified School District is one of the oldest K-12 districts in the western United States (established in 1854). SCUSD serves 43,175 students on 75 campuses spanning 76 square miles.

SCUSD is home to a 2013 California Distinguished School (West Campus High School), the only public Waldorf-inspired high school in the nation (George Washington Carver) and the only Hmong language immersion program in the state (Susan B. Anthony Elementary School).

Alumni from SCUSD’s schools include U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, California Supreme Court Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye, nationally renowned political scholar Dr. Cornel West and author Joan Didion. Recent graduates from SCUSD are currently attending Harvard, Stanford, UC Berkeley, UC Davis and host of other prestigious universities.

Our Board-adopted mission statement promises the community that our students will “graduate as globally competitive life-long learners, prepared to succeed in a career and higher education institution of their choice to secure gainful employment and contribute to society.”

SCUSD’s students reflect the rich diversity that is the hallmark of Sacramento’s central city. Our student population is 37.1 percent Hispanic or Latino; 17.4 percent Asian; 17.7 percent African American; and 18.8 percent white. About 5.3 percent of students are of two or more races or ethnicities.

Residents within SCUSD speak more than 40 languages; 38 percent of students do not speak English at home.

SCUSD employs 4,213 people and operates with a budget of $383 million.

CrowdStrike is a leading cybersecurity company protecting customers from all cyber threats by leveraging its Security Cloud to stop breaches. From its inception in 2011, driven by George Kurtz’s vision, CrowdStrike was created as a different kind of cybersecurity company. Cloud-native, CrowdStrike immediately brought a threat perspective, effectiveness, scalability, and flexibility never seen before in the industry – seamlessly aligning People, Technology, and Processes. The CrowdStrike Falcon platform has revolutionized enterprise security for the cloud era. Its single lightweight-agent architecture leverages artificial intelligence (AI) and offers real-time protection and visibility across the enterprise, preventing attacks on endpoints and workloads on or off the network.

Our Mission. To provide for the health, inspiration and education of the people of California by helping to preserve the state's extraordinary biological diversity, protecting its most valued natural and cultural resources, and creating opportunities for high-quality outdoor recreation.

The California State University Asian American, Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander Student Achievement Program (CSU ASAP) provides for $8 million in ongoing funding for culturally responsive services to enhance student educational experiences and promote higher education success for low-income, underserved and first-generation AANHPI students and other underrepresented students. 

Biology is the study of life, an exciting and broad field of interconnected topics, including microbiology, molecular biology, cellular biology, genetics, anatomy, physiology, ecology, and evolution. Many of the topics also address our most pressing social problems, including public health, natural resource management, and the environment.

  The Center for Health Practice, Policy & Research (CHPPR) is the vision of a group of administrators and faculty from Sacramento State’s College of Health and Human Services (HHS). CHPPR is dedicated to impacting community health by promoting collaboration, inter-disciplinary practice, and innovation to reduce health inequities in California’s capital region.

The Chicanx/Latinx Faculty and Staff Association (CHLFSA)’ goal is to foster a supportive community for Chicanx/Latinx faculty and staff at Sacramento State. The mission of CHLFSA is to promote equity and inclusion, and to enhance the status of the Chicano/a/x and Latino/a/x community at Sacramento State,...

The College of Continuing Education at California State University, Sacramento offers courses, workshops, training programs and conference services for adults seeking to update their skills and advance in their careers.

Sacramento State First Star Academy works with social workers, attorneys, and CFT teams to advocate for scholar and track placement moves and engage caregivers to ensure they have the supports needed to support youth academically. The goal of these efforts is to ensure that youth transition into adulthood with strong relationships with adults who can provide ongoing and continued support. Sacramento State First Star Academy’s goal is to provide long term support and lay a foundation for success.

Sac State's Mission

As California's capital university, we transform lives by preparing students for leadership, service, and success.

Sacramento State will be a recognized leader in education, innovation, and engagement.

All recreation majors, and many of our graduate students, complete professional internships, consistent with the accreditation standards for our undergraduate programs. Students should work with...

Here at Sac State, we have a joint effort to make sustainability a priority. Students, faculty, and staff are working together, not just to make the campus more sustainable, but to create a culture where sustainability is second nature. At Sac State we’re working to reduce our environmental impact, but more importantly, to create a place where students’ innovative ideas can be explored, and sustainability pioneers can grow.