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Greenhills Elementary
Test scores
CAASPP 2023-24 . % met or exceeded standardWhat this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 55 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 74 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 47 and 36. Reading and writing scores are down about 20 points since 2014, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 64% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 70% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Greenhills Elementary
Set in Granite Bay, California, Greenhills Elementary is a moderately sized elementary-level community, part of Eureka Union. It teaches 549 students across grades K through 3.
Within Eureka Union, which oversees 7 schools and 3,455 students, Greenhills Elementary is one campus in the system.
Demographically, Greenhills Elementary logs that White students make up the majority at 62%. Beyond that, the school logs 15% Hispanic, 15% multiracial, 8% Asian.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 16% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is south of Placer County's rate of about 33%.
After controlling for student poverty, Greenhills Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 69.7%; this one delivers 64.1%.
Across the wider county, census data for Placer County shows median household income runs about $115,998, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Placer County's 123 public schools (combined enrollment of about 70,590 students), Greenhills Elementary is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Sierra Vista, around 0.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Greenhills Elementary comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 69.4%.
The campus sits in a residential setting.
Over the past 7-year window. Greenhills Elementary's enrollment has ticked up 20% since 2018, when it stood at 457 (now 549). The White share of enrollment edged down from 69% to 62% over that span.
On the community side, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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