Enrollment
117
Middle
DISTRICT 194 · STATE 659
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GOLD OAK UNION ELEMENTARY·NCES 061539010199
Pleasant Valley Middle
4120 Pleasant Valley Rd., Placerville, CA 95667 · (530) 644-9620 · El Dorado County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE42-RURALREGULAR SCHOOL117 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 5% of California public middle schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- FThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public middle schools
Student : Teacher
14.6:1
8 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.9:1 · STATE 20.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
36%
42 students
DISTRICT 38% · STATE 65%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 34 | 29% |
| Grade 7 | 44 | 38% |
| Grade 8 | 39 | 33% |
Student demographics
56%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 43% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Gold Oak Union Elementary. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
23.9%
CA avg 49.1% . -24.1pp since 2014
Math
13.6%
CA avg 37.7% . -30.4pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 24 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 14 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are down about 24 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 30 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 3.5% | 20.4% | 35.4% | 40.7% |
| Math | 0.9% | 12.7% | 22.7% | 63.6% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 23.9% | 13.6% |
| 2023-24 | 28.0% | 23.1% |
| 2022-23 | 40.8% | 15.7% |
| 2021-22 | 46.3% | 28.2% |
| 2020-21 | 38.3% | 19.4% |
| 2018-19 | 52.3% | 36.1% |
| 2017-18 | 49.0% | 40.7% |
| 2016-17 | 51.3% | 41.5% |
| 2015-16 | 56.0% | 44.0% |
| 2014-15 | 48.0% | 44.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of CA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
22.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
58.5%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-36.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 22% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 59% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Pleasant Valley Middle
Pleasant Valley Middle's state test result (22.2% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pleasant Valley Middle this school | 117 | 35.9% | 22.2% |
| Hickman Middle Hickman | 141 | 36.2% | 51.5% |
| Forestville Academy Forestville | 152 | 40.1% | 32.8% |
| Petaluma Accelerated Charter Petaluma | 115 | 27.8% | 87.9% |
| Sierra Junior High Tollhouse | 184 | 40.8% | 31.5% |
| Mountain Creek Middle Somerset | 99 | 42.4% | 35.8% |
Matched among California middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Pleasant Valley Middle ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In California | In El Dorado County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 22.2% | #989 of 1,224 | #10 of 10 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 13.6% | #1,048 of 1,227 ▼ 337 | #10 of 10 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 23.9% | #1,113 of 1,227 ▼ 136 | #10 of 10 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -18.5pp | #1 of 1,214 | #1 of 10 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 117 | #1,326 of 1,377 | #10 of 12 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 35.9% | #1,090 of 1,329 | #5 of 10 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
117
-32 (-21%) vs 2020
-65% since 2000-01, when it was 330
Student : Teacher
14.6:1
was 18.6:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 117 | 8 | 14.6:1 | 36% (42) |
| 2023-24 | 147 | 8 | 18.3:1 | 41% (61) |
| 2022-23 | 155 | 8 | 19.3:1 | 39% (61) |
| 2020-21 | 149 | 8 | 18.6:1 | 30% (44) |
| 2017-18 | 158 | 8 | 19.8:1 | 44% (70) |
| 2015-16 | 159 | 5 | 31.8:1 | 31% (50) |
| 2010-11 | 146 | N/A | N/A | 39% (57) |
| 2000-01 | 330 | 15 | 22.0:1 | 13% (42) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Pleasant Valley Middle.
Since 2017-18: students down 26% (158 to 117); teachers unchanged (8 to 8).
About Pleasant Valley Middle
The public middle school Pleasant Valley Middle is located in Placerville, California. Students in grades 6 through 8 attend, and enrollment is 117 students. The typical figure for middle schools in California is about 659 students.
Gold Oak Union Elementary oversees Pleasant Valley Middle and 1 other school, with 387 students in total.
A majority of students at Pleasant Valley Middle, 60%, are White. Other reported shares: 27% Hispanic and 10% multiracial. El Dorado County's residents are about 78% White, 18 points above the school's share. The chance that two students picked at random at Pleasant Valley Middle belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 56%.
The school has about 14.6 students per teacher and 8 full-time-equivalent teachers. That ratio is under the 20.7:1 average for middle schools in California. Federal records put free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at 36%.
allk12 grades Pleasant Valley Middle a D. The grade compares the school only with California public middle schools, because each state gives its own test.
Pleasant Valley Middle is 36.3 points below expectations on state tests, given its student poverty level, placing it in the bottom 10% in California.
Within El Dorado County, median household income is about $108,845, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 40%, and roughly 5% of residents are in poverty. The public schools of El Dorado County number 69 and enroll about 34,706.
Gold Oak Elementary is the public school closest to Pleasant Valley Middle, about 2.0 miles away. Pleasant Valley Middle has 3 other public schools within five miles. Local comparison: Pleasant Valley Middle ranks 6th of 7 nearby schools, at 22.2% versus a 35.1% average.
NCES lists the school's locale as Rural: Distant. That means it sits in rural territory some distance from an urban area.
The number of students declined from 149 to 117 over 4 years. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio fell to 14.6:1, from 18.6:1.
Topics for discussion here include school safety, transportation, and start times. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
El Dorado County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
192,662
Census ACS
Median income
$108,845
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
40%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
69
34,706 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Gold Oak Union Elementary
- Gold Oak ElementaryElementary · 270 students
Other schools in Placerville
- Sky Mountain CharterCombined · 2,511 students
- El Dorado HighHigh · 1,135 students
- Edwin Markham MiddleMiddle · 431 students
- Sierra ElementaryElementary · 402 students
- Indian Creek ElementaryElementary · 392 students
- Louisiana Schnell ElementaryElementary · 370 students
Other Pleasant Valley Middle schools
3 other US public schools in 4 states are named Pleasant Valley Middle. Pleasant Valley Middle is the 4th largest of the 4.
- Pleasant Valley Middle SchoolBrodheadsville, PA · 908 students
- Pleasant Valley Middle SchoolWichita, KS · 760 students
- Pleasant Valley MiddleVANCOUVER, WA · 447 students
Nearby schools
- Gold Oak Elementary2.0 mi · 270
- Camino Polytechnic2.8 mi · 31
- Camino Elementary2.8 mi · 375
- Louisiana Schnell Elementary6.0 mi · 370
- Walt Tyler Elementary6.2 mi · 31
- Pioneer Elementary6.2 mi · 162
Frequently asked questions
About Pleasant Valley MiddleHow many students attend Pleasant Valley Middle?
Pleasant Valley Middle enrolls approximately 117 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Pleasant Valley Middle serve?
Pleasant Valley Middle serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Pleasant Valley Middle?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Pleasant Valley Middle is approximately 14.6:1 (8 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Pleasant Valley Middle?
At Pleasant Valley Middle, the student body is approximately 60% White, 27% Hispanic, 1% Black, 10% Two or more.
Is Pleasant Valley Middle public or private?
Pleasant Valley Middle is a public K-12 school, overseen by Gold Oak Union Elementary.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.