El Dorado High

El Dorado High is a 9-12 campus of moderately sized scale in Placerville, California, run under El Dorado Union High, teacheing 1,135 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 35% larger than the state mean of about 838.

El Dorado High is one of 6 schools operated by El Dorado Union High, a district that hosts 6,410 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, El Dorado High shows that the largest single group is White, at 62% of enrollment. Other groups include 27% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. By comparison, El Dorado County as a whole is about 78% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, El Dorado High records 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. An estimated 38% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, El Dorado High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.9%, the actual is 45.3%, a residual of -11.6 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for El Dorado County put the typical household earns roughly $108,845 per year, roughly 40% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, El Dorado County runs 69 public schools (combined enrollment of about 34,706 students), of which El Dorado High is one.

Nearest neighbor: Edwin Markham Middle, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, El Dorado High comes 2nd of 5 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 32.9%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 1,127 students in 2018 compared to 1,135 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 70% to 62% across the same window.

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