Lake Forest Elementary

As a moderately sized elementary campus in El Dorado Hills, California, Lake Forest Elementary serves 421 students from grades K through 5, overseen by Rescue Union Elementary.

Across the 7 schools in Rescue Union Elementary (3,542 students total), Lake Forest Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Lake Forest Elementary logs that White students make up the majority at 75%; the rest comes out to 19% Hispanic, 4% Asian, 2% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with El Dorado County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, Lake Forest Elementary lists 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 14% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, El Dorado County runs at roughly 32%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Lake Forest Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 71.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 68.4%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for El Dorado County put median household earnings sit near $108,845, roughly 40% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across El Dorado County's 69 public schools (combined enrollment of about 34,706 students), Lake Forest Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Marina Village Middle, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Lake Forest Elementary ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 72.7%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Over the past 7-year window. Lake Forest Elementary's enrollment has showed little movement since 2018, when it stood at 425 (now 421). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 25.0:1 in 2018 to 19.9:1 today.

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