Mountainside Middle College High

Mountainside Middle College High is a tight-knit K-12 campus in Placerville, California, overseen by El Dorado County Office of Education. The school enrolls 290 students in grades K through 12. By comparison, California's public schools average about 602 students each, so Mountainside Middle College High sits 52% below that benchmark.

El Dorado County Office of Education comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 825 students; Mountainside Middle College High is among them.

In terms of who attends, Mountainside Middle College High logs that White students make up the majority at 64%; the rest comes out to 19% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 3% Native American. By comparison, El Dorado County as a whole is about 78% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 18.6:1 average. About 41% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, El Dorado County runs at roughly 32%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Around the school, El Dorado County reports that the typical household earns roughly $108,845 per year, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Mountainside Middle College High is one of 69 public schools in El Dorado County (combined enrollment of about 34,706 students).

The closest other public school is El Dorado Co Office of Ed Special Ed Programs, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The school occupies a small-town site. Mountainside Middle College High is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Mountainside Middle College High has declined 40%, going from 482 students in 2018 to 290 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 72% to 64% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 19.2:1 in 2018 to 11.8:1 in 2025.

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