Placer High

Placer High is one of the high-enrollment 9-12 campuss in Auburn, California, part of Placer Union High, with 1,265 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. By comparison, California's public schools average about 838 students each, so Placer High sits 51% bigger than that benchmark.

Placer High is one of 6 schools operated by Placer Union High, a district that hosts 3,918 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Placer High reports that White students make up the majority at 57%; the rest comes out to 29% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 69% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Placer High shows 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 22.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.2:1, putting Placer High higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 30% of students at Placer High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, Placer High sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 61.7%; actual is 46.8%, a gap of -14.9 points.

Across the wider county, Placer County reports that the typical household earns roughly $115,998 per year, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Placer County runs 123 public schools (combined enrollment of about 70,590 students), of which Placer High is one.

Nearest neighbor: Confluence Continuation High, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Placer High. On composite proficiency, Placer High comes 2nd of 4 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 34.4%.

Placer High operates from a town-based location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Placer High has contracted 3%, going from 1,306 students in 2018 to 1,265 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 72% to 57%.

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