Ridgeview Elementary

Set in Granite Bay, California, Ridgeview Elementary is a mid-sized junior high, run under Eureka Union. It educates 619 students across grades 4 through 6.

Across the 7 schools in Eureka Union (3,455 students total), Ridgeview Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Ridgeview Elementary logs that the largest single group is White, at 61% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 16% Asian, 12% multiracial, 11% Hispanic. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 69%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 30.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 20.7:1, putting Ridgeview Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 10% of students at Ridgeview Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Placer County (around 33%), the school's rate is south of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Ridgeview Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 73.3%, the actual is 75.7%, a residual of +2.4 points.

In the area at large, Placer County reports that the typical household earns roughly $115,998 per year, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Placer County runs 123 public schools (combined enrollment of about 70,590 students), of which Ridgeview Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Oakhills Elementary, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Ridgeview Elementary. On composite proficiency, Ridgeview Elementary comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 64.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Ridgeview Elementary's enrollment has expanded 4% since 2018, when it stood at 597 (now 619). The White share of enrollment contracted from 67% to 61% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 27.8:1 in 2018 to 30.9:1 today.

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