Sierra Elementary

Located at 1100 Thompson Way, in Placerville, California, Sierra Elementary is a medium-sized elementary campus that serves 402 students (grades K through 5), operated by Placerville Union Elementary.

Placerville Union Elementary runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,203 students. Sierra Elementary is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Sierra Elementary records that the largest single group is White, at 65% of enrollment. Other groups include 24% Hispanic, 9% multiracial. By comparison, El Dorado County as a whole is about 78% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school employs 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 23.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Sierra Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 50% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against El Dorado County (around 32%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Sierra Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.4%, the actual is 51.3%, a residual of +1.8 points.

Around the school, El Dorado County reports that the typical household earns roughly $108,845 per year, about 40% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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 Sierra Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Louisiana Schnell Elementary, around 0.9 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Sierra Elementary comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 31.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Looking at the recent track record. Sierra Elementary's enrollment has ticked down 15% since 2018, when it stood at 472 (now 402). White enrollment moved from 72% to 65% across the same window.

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