Sky Mountain Charter

Sky Mountain Charter is a well-populated unified-grade school in Placerville, California, operated by Sky Mountain Charter District. The school hosts 2,511 students in grades K through 12. Compared to the state average of about 602 students per school, that is 317% larger than typical.

Sky Mountain Charter is a school of Sky Mountain Charter District, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

Looking at the student body, Sky Mountain Charter records that the largest single group is Hispanic at 41%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 31% White, 18% multiracial, 6% Asian, 3% Black. By comparison, El Dorado County as a whole is about 15% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Sky Mountain Charter has 108 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 23.3:1. The state averages around 18.6:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 37% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for El Dorado County indicate median household earnings sit near $108,845, about 40% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across El Dorado County's 69 public schools (combined enrollment of about 34,706 students), Sky Mountain Charter is one campus in the mix.

Independence Continuation is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Sky Mountain Charter.

Geographically, the school is in a town-center area. Sky Mountain Charter is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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