Enrollment
270
Elementary
DISTRICT 194 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GOLD OAK UNION ELEMENTARY·NCES 061539001962
Gold Oak Elementary
3171 Pleasant Valley Rd., Placerville, CA 95667 · (530) 626-3160 · El Dorado County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL270 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 15% of California public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C-Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
19.2:1
14 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.9:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
40%
107 students
DISTRICT 38% · STATE 65%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 48 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 40 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 42 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 55 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 43 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 42 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (48) is 14% larger than its 5th grade class (42).
Student demographics
37%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 43% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Gold Oak Elementary→Pleasant Valley Middle
Based on grade levels within Gold Oak Union Elementary. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
36.9%
CA avg 49.1% . +0.9pp since 2014
Math
25.6%
CA avg 37.7% . -16.4pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 37 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 26 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2014, while math scores are down about 16 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 10.8% | 26.1% | 24.6% | 38.5% |
| Math | 7.0% | 18.6% | 27.1% | 47.3% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 36.9% | 25.6% |
| 2023-24 | 42.2% | 26.6% |
| 2022-23 | 41.7% | 37.1% |
| 2021-22 | 43.3% | 27.6% |
| 2020-21 | 48.9% | 30.7% |
| 2018-19 | 51.7% | 46.0% |
| 2017-18 | 49.7% | 42.9% |
| 2016-17 | 53.1% | 37.3% |
| 2015-16 | 47.0% | 37.0% |
| 2014-15 | 36.0% | 42.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of CA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
33.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
56.3%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-23.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 33% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 56% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Gold Oak Elementary
Gold Oak Elementary's state test result (33.0% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 3 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gold Oak Elementary this school | 270 | 39.6% | 33.0% |
| Deer Creek Elementary Nevada City | 259 | 37.5% | 48.0% |
| Sebastopol Independent Charter Sebastopol | 286 | 36.7% | N/A |
| Buckeye Elementary Shingle Springs | 320 | 40.3% | 54.8% |
| Chrysalis Charter Palo Cedro | 226 | 38.9% | N/A |
| Pine Grove Elementary STEM Magnet Jackson | 259 | 44.0% | 28.1% |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Gold Oak Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In El Dorado County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 33.0% | #3,164 of 5,151 | #22 of 25 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 25.6% | #3,701 of 5,172 ▼ 258 | #23 of 25 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 36.9% | #3,228 of 5,172 ▼ 726 | #23 of 25 ▼ 3 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -4.2pp | #690 of 5,116 | #4 of 25 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 270 | #4,994 of 5,915 | #24 of 35 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.2:1 | #607 of 5,352 | #3 of 26 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 37.0% | #3,613 of 5,354 | #25 of 26 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 39.6% | #4,350 of 5,625 | #14 of 28 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -18.4% | #1,593 of 3,837 | #7 of 19 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
270
0 (0%) vs 2020
-72% since 1990-91, when it was 958
Student : Teacher
19.2:1
was 20.8:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 270 | 14 | 19.2:1 | 40% (107) |
| 2023-24 | 288 | 15 | 19.2:1 | 38% (108) |
| 2022-23 | 311 | 14 | 22.2:1 | 39% (122) |
| 2020-21 | 270 | 13 | 20.8:1 | 36% (97) |
| 2017-18 | 331 | 14 | 23.6:1 | 39% (130) |
| 2015-16 | 320 | 12 | 26.7:1 | 37% (119) |
| 2010-11 | 340 | N/A | N/A | 40% (136) |
| 2000-01 | 429 | 24 | 17.9:1 | 22% (94) |
| 1990-91 | 958 | 42 | 22.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Gold Oak Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 18% (331 to 270); teachers unchanged (14 to 14).
About Gold Oak Elementary
A small elementary school in Placerville, California, Gold Oak Elementary is part of Gold Oak Union Elementary. There are 270 students enrolled, covering kindergarten through 5. That puts enrollment 42% below the 465-student average for elementary schools in California.
Gold Oak Union Elementary includes 2 schools. Together they enroll 387 students.
More than half of the students at Gold Oak Elementary are White (77%). Beyond that, enrollment is 20% Hispanic and 3% multiracial. That is in line with El Dorado County, where about 78% of residents are White. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 37%.
On staff are 14 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 19.2:1. Elementary schools in California average 22.3:1, 3.1 more students per teacher than here. Gold Oak Elementary has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 40%.
Among California public elementary schools, Gold Oak Elementary outscored 15%, which works out to a C- on the allk12 Grade.
Gold Oak Elementary is a bottom-10% school in California on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate across its state test results of 33.0% against a predicted 56.3%.
For El Dorado County, Census Bureau data show median household income comes to about $108,845, about 40% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 5% of residents are in poverty. There are 69 public schools in the county, enrolling about 34,706, Gold Oak Elementary among them.
Pleasant Valley Middle is the nearest public school to Gold Oak Elementary, about 2.0 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, 5 other public schools are within five miles. In a group of 6 nearby schools with scores, Gold Oak Elementary ranks 4th on average proficiency.
Federal data place Gold Oak Elementary in the Rural: Fringe locale, which means it is in rural territory close to an urban area.
Enrollment has been fairly stable: 270 in 2020-21 and 270 in 2024-25. Federal data show the ratio falling from 20.8:1 to 19.2:1.
This page is a place to ask questions and share updates about athletics, class schedules, and weather closures at Gold Oak Elementary. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
El Dorado County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
192,662
Census ACS
Median income
$108,845
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
40%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
69
34,706 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Gold Oak Union Elementary
- Pleasant Valley MiddleMiddle · 117 students
Other schools in Placerville
- Sky Mountain CharterCombined · 2,511 students
- El Dorado HighHigh · 1,135 students
- Edwin Markham MiddleMiddle · 431 students
- Sierra ElementaryElementary · 402 students
- Indian Creek ElementaryElementary · 392 students
- Louisiana Schnell ElementaryElementary · 370 students
Nearby schools
- Pleasant Valley Middle2.0 mi · 117
- Camino Polytechnic3.5 mi · 31
- Camino Elementary3.5 mi · 375
- Louisiana Schnell Elementary4.3 mi · 370
- Sierra Elementary4.7 mi · 402
- Independence Continuation5.6 mi · 104
Frequently asked questions
About Gold Oak ElementaryHow large is Gold Oak Elementary?
Gold Oak Elementary enrolls approximately 270 students in grades KG-05.
Is Gold Oak Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Gold Oak Elementary is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many students per teacher at Gold Oak Elementary?
Approximately 19.2:1 students per teacher at Gold Oak Elementary.
How diverse is Gold Oak Elementary?
Gold Oak Elementary reports a student body of 77% White, 20% Hispanic, 0% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees Gold Oak Elementary?
Gold Oak Elementary is overseen by Gold Oak Union Elementary in El Dorado County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.