South Tahoe Middle

Located at 2940 Lake Tahoe Blvd., in South Lake Tahoe, California, South Tahoe Middle is a reasonably sized middle school that instructs 716 students (grades 6 through 8), one of the schools within Lake Tahoe Unified.

Lake Tahoe Unified comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 3,527 students; South Tahoe Middle is among them.

On the student-mix side, South Tahoe Middle reports that the most-represented group is Hispanic (48%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 44% White, 4% Asian, 3% multiracial. By comparison, El Dorado County as a whole is about 15% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, South Tahoe Middle reports 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. Roughly 50% of students at South Tahoe Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, El Dorado County runs at roughly 32%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, South Tahoe Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.6%, the actual is 35.9%, a residual of -13.7 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (El Dorado County) records that the typical household earns roughly $108,845 per year, about 40% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across El Dorado County's 69 public schools (combined enrollment of about 34,706 students), South Tahoe Middle is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Blue Ridge, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 7 other public schools. On composite proficiency, South Tahoe Middle comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 39.4%.

South Tahoe Middle operates from a small-town location.

Over the past 7-year window. South Tahoe Middle's enrollment has decreased 21% since 2018, when it stood at 902 (now 716). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 21.9:1 in 2018 to 19.4:1 today.

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