Alder Creek Middle

Alder Creek Middle operates as a low-enrollment 6-8 campus in Truckee, California, one of the schools within Tahoe-Truckee Unified. Current enrollment sits at 535 students spanning grades 6 through 8.

Within Tahoe-Truckee Unified, which oversees 11 schools and 3,959 students, Alder Creek Middle is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Alder Creek Middle lists that White students make up the majority at 64%. The remainder breaks down as 30% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Nevada County as a whole is about 84% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.1:1. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 30% of students at Alder Creek Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Nevada County runs at roughly 43%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Alder Creek Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.8%, the actual is 56.7%, a residual of -5.1 points.

Across the wider county, Nevada County reports that median household earnings sit near $89,882, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Alder Creek Middle is one of 46 public schools in Nevada County (combined enrollment of about 13,561 students).

Nearest neighbor: Cold Stream Alternative, around 1.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Alder Creek Middle. On composite proficiency, Alder Creek Middle comes 2nd of 5 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 53.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-center area.

Five-year trend. Alder Creek Middle's enrollment has changed only slightly since 2018, when it stood at 531 (now 535).

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