Pleasant Valley Middle

Pleasant Valley Middle is a 6-8 campus of one-room-style scale in Placerville, California, one of the schools within Gold Oak Union Elementary, enrolling 117 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, California's public schools average about 659 students each, so Pleasant Valley Middle sits 82% smaller than that benchmark.

Within Gold Oak Union Elementary, which oversees 2 schools and 387 students, Pleasant Valley Middle is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Pleasant Valley Middle lists that the largest single group is White, at 60% of enrollment. The remainder is composed of 27% Hispanic, 10% multiracial. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 78%.

On the resource side, On paper, Pleasant Valley Middle has 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 20.7:1, putting Pleasant Valley Middle tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 36% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Pleasant Valley Middle sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 58.1%; actual is 25.6%, a gap of -32.6 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for El Dorado County put median household income runs about $108,845, roughly 40% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, El Dorado County runs 69 public schools (combined enrollment of about 34,706 students), of which Pleasant Valley Middle is one.

Nearest neighbor: Gold Oak Elementary, around 2.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Pleasant Valley Middle. On composite proficiency, Pleasant Valley Middle comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 34.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 26%: 158 students in 2018 compared to 117 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 85% to 60%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 19.8:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 today.

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