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John Adams Academy - El Dorado Hills
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About John Adams Academy - El Dorado Hills
Set in El Dorado Hills, California, John Adams Academy - El Dorado Hills is a high-enrollment combined-grade school, run under John Adams Academy - El Dorado Hills District. It hosts 1,580 students across grades K through 12. That puts it 162% bigger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 602 students.
John Adams Academy - El Dorado Hills District is the operating authority for John Adams Academy - El Dorado Hills, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.
Demographically, John Adams Academy - El Dorado Hills records that the largest single group is White, at 73% of enrollment. The remainder is composed of 14% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 5% Asian.
On the resource side, Staff filings list 76 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 18.6:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 17% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against El Dorado County (around 32%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.
Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for El Dorado County put 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), John Adams Academy - El Dorado Hills is one campus in the mix.
Rising Sun Montessori is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.
The campus sits in a suburban setting. John Adams Academy - El Dorado Hills is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.
On this page, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
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