Charter Montessori Valley View Campus

Set in El Dorado Hills, California, Charter Montessori Valley View Campus is a mid-sized primary school, part of Buckeye Union Elementary. It instructs 692 students across grades K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 49% larger than the state mean of about 465.

Buckeye Union Elementary comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 4,151 students; Charter Montessori Valley View Campus is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Charter Montessori Valley View Campus shows that 56% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school reports 19% Hispanic, 12% Asian, 11% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 78% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 14% 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 somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Charter Montessori Valley View Campus sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 70.9%; this one delivers 71.1%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (El Dorado County) records that median household income runs about $108,845, roughly 40% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across El Dorado County's 69 public schools (combined enrollment of about 34,706 students), Charter Montessori Valley View Campus is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Rising Sun Montessori, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Charter Montessori Valley View Campus comes 3rd of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 78.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area. Charter Montessori Valley View Campus operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 33%: 521 students in 2018 compared to 692 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 71% to 56% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 26.1:1 in 2018 to 24.1:1 in 2025.

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