Pleasant Grove Middle

Pleasant Grove Middle is one of the small junior highs in Rescue, California, one of the schools within Rescue Union Elementary, with 470 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. By comparison, California's public schools average about 659 students each, so Pleasant Grove Middle sits 29% leaner than that benchmark.

Rescue Union Elementary comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 3,542 students; Pleasant Grove Middle is among them.

Demographically, Pleasant Grove Middle lists that 74% of the student body identifies as White; the rest reads as 19% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 2% Asian. Compared to El Dorado County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Pleasant Grove Middle has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 20.7:1, putting Pleasant Grove Middle tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 27% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Pleasant Grove Middle tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 63.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 50.0%.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for El Dorado County put the typical household earns roughly $108,845 per year, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, El Dorado County runs 69 public schools (combined enrollment of about 34,706 students), of which Pleasant Grove Middle is one.

Green Valley Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Pleasant Grove Middle. On composite proficiency, Pleasant Grove Middle comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 67.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Pleasant Grove Middle has ticked down 15%, going from 554 students in 2018 to 470 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 19.9:1 in 2018 to 18.8:1 in 2025.

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