Miller's Hill

Located at 7900 South Shingle Rd., in Shingle Springs, California, Miller's Hill is a rural-scale 6-8 campus that hosts 77 students (grades 4 through 8), operated by Latrobe. By comparison, California's public schools average about 659 students each, so Miller's Hill sits 88% below that benchmark.

Miller's Hill is one of 2 schools operated by Latrobe, a district that hosts 132 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Miller's Hill logs that the largest single group is White, at 74% of enrollment; the rest is composed of 13% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 3% Asian. That composition is broadly in line with El Dorado County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Miller's Hill has 5 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.4:1. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 27% of students at Miller's Hill qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Miller's Hill tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 63.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 61.5%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for El Dorado County put median household earnings sit near $108,845, about 40% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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), Miller's Hill is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Latrobe Elementary, around 0.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Miller's Hill ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, below the local average of 68.8%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Miller's Hill's enrollment has fell 8% since 2018, when it stood at 84 (now 77). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 today.

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