Dry Creek Elementary

2026-2027

School Fact Sheet

To inspire each student to extraordinary achievement every day.

School Highlights

Dry Creek Elementary is a TK–6th grade elementary school located in Rio Linda, California, in the Twin Rivers Unified School District. We have a hard-working culture that encourages students to always give their best and never give up. Our mission is to promote an environment of high academic achievement, kindness, culture and strong community values.

The staff at Dry Creek takes pride in providing a nurturing and safe environment that facilitates academic achievement. Students will be immersed in a rigorous and challenging curriculum to prepare them to be college and career ready. We serve approximately 640 students representing 12 different languages.

School Resources

Transitional Kindergarten
Strong Parent Involvement
English Learner Advisory Council (ELAC)
Visual and Performing Arts (VAPA) program
Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) tiered Intervention Model
Family Movie Nights
Family Involvement Nights

Excellence in Education

Common Core State Standards (CCSS)
Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) for staff with the focus on analyzing student data and using results to improve instructional practices to support student learning.
Staff Professional Development

Enrichment Programs

Emphasis on Arts Integration with performances, after school enrichment opportunities, spirit days, and assemblies:

Accelerated Reader
i-Ready
CORE
Lesson Design
Lexia Core 5 Reading Program
Student Celebrations: Monthly Character Trait Assemblies, Perfect Attendance, Trimester Academic Achievement Awards, and Monthly Critter Cash Parties
The Sacramento Chinese Community Service Center (The Center) after-school program

Awards

Healthier US School Challenge National Silver Award
Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) Gold Recognition Award

School and Facilities Improvement Projects

Non-Bond Funded Projects: Completed, In Progress and In Planning

Twin Rivers developed a Long-Range Master Plan that serves as a guide to prioritize investments in our facilities with a focus on the safety and standardization of our existing infrastructure for those facilities most in need. Aligned with the forward-thinking and fiscally responsible approach, Twin Rivers is prioritizing our facilities planning into four categories of: Must Do, Should Do, Would Like to Do, and Future.

Twin Rivers is investing more than $303 Million in ongoing facilities and maintenance projects using existing funding, on projects in progress or planning to commence during the 2023–24 fiscal year.

Completed Projects

Kitchen Modernization
Kindergarten play area modernization
Outdoor learning shade structure

In Progress Projects

School Reconfiguration (Phase 3)

Planning Projects

Modernization: Universal Transitional Kindergarten

Bond Funded Projects

Twin Rivers Unified School District (TRUSD) is committed to ensuring our schools provide each student with optimal facilities to learn, grow, and become college and career ready. With an average building age of 57 years old, there are immediate health and safety improvements that must be addressed. In 2022, voters passed K, a bond measure to address health and safety facility improvements for elementary schools throughout the district. Below are some of the bond funded projects scheduled for Dry Creek Elementary School.

Summer 2026