GENERAL
INFORMATION
Administration:
Michael Gulden,
Principal
Front
Office Staff:
Therese Favro,
Secretary
Norma
Allen, Clerk
Our
School's History:
Cosumnes River is the smallest elementary school in Elk Grove
Unified, but it must also be credited with being the oldest
school because it stands near the site of the first real school,
the original Rhoads School. This school was built by Jared
Dixon Sheldon on the Cosumnes River in the 1840s. It was replaced
by the new Rhoads School, constructed in 1872. That's the
little school that sits today in Elk Grove Park. In the fast
paced gold days when miners filled the banks of the Cosumnes,
there were many school districts formed to provide education
for the children of the families that followed the gold. Districts
and their schools named Sebastopol, Katesville, and Live Oak
ceased to exist after 1883, but Michigan Bar, Wilson, and
Stone House operated until 1947 when they merged as the Cosumnes
River Elementary, Rhoads School closed the next year and joined
the consolidation. The Cosumnes name is believed to come from
ko-sum, a Miwok Indian word for salmon.
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