Mountainside Middle College High
Placerville · CA · El Dorado County Office of Education · Public charter · K-12 combined
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Golden Sierra Junior Senior High → John Adams Academy - El Dorado Hills → Sky Mountain Charter → Central Sierra ROP → Golden Ridge → Independence Continuation → John Adams Academy - Roseville → Buckeye Union Mandarin Immersion Charter →📋 At a glance
- 📚 2 AP courses offered — Moderate
- 🔢 1 calculus classes · 3 physics · 3 chemistry
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 47% of US high schools
- 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 72% (Bottom 16% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts graduation data, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Mountainside Middle College High compares for families
Solid mid-tier academic profile.
- ▸ LocallyCA trails the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (−4 points). Stronger local schools matter even more.
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Golden Sierra Junior Senior High, John Adams Academy - El Dorado Hills, Sky Mountain Charter and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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🎓 Academic rigor
AP + advanced-course offerings
Moderate — some AP / advanced course access
Bottom 47% of US high schools
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). CRDC reports what's offered + enrolled — it doesn't collect AP exam pass rates (College Board owns that data and doesn't release it school-level).
SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-21Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). Volume — not score — is what's reported here. A higher count means more students at this school are entering the college admissions pipeline. Note: 2020-21 was COVID-disrupted; some districts (especially those that stayed remote longer) report unusually low or zero takers.
🎓 4-year graduation rate · federal EDFacts
What % of students graduate on time?
Bottom 16% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate
Source: federal EDFacts ACGR (Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate), 2019 vintage via Urban Institute. EDFacts publishes a range (low-high) to preserve privacy on small cohorts; we display the midpoint.
👩🏫 Teacher workforce · federal CRDC
Teacher experience & reliability
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2017-18 — the most recent vintage that publishes per-school teacher quality fields; the 2020-21 sweep had them suppressed). "Inexperienced" = teachers in their first or second year. "Chronic absence" = teachers absent 10+ days/year.
🏛️ Federal Title I context
Title I Schoolwide eligible
≥40% FRPL — qualifies for Title I Schoolwide program
40-74% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. The district can use Title I funds across the whole school under federal Schoolwide Program rules.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, free/reduced-price lunch eligibility. The actual Title I designation is a district decision and may differ from eligibility — but the federal eligibility math is what we show here. We don't claim to assert whether the district formally chose to enroll this school in Title I.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of -5.5%/year, projecting from 2024's 290 students:
≈ 71 fewer students by 2029 — a real revenue/relevance risk worth getting ahead of.
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
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The schools most like this one — same type, blended on distance and size — and where their enrollment is heading. These are the schools families here weigh against each other.
| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Golden Sierra Junior Senior High Garden Valley |
Public | 8.9 | 298 | -8.6% |
| John Adams Academy - El Dorado Hills El Dorado Hills |
Public · charter | 12.4 | 291 | +118.8% |
| Sky Mountain Charter Placerville |
Public · charter | 2.9 | 583 | +17.5% |
| Central Sierra ROP Placerville |
Public | 0.0 | — | — |
| Golden Ridge Placerville |
Public | 2.1 | — | — |
| Independence Continuation Diamond Springs |
Public | 3.1 | 104 | -1.0% |
| John Adams Academy - Roseville Roseville |
Public · charter | 21.6 | 390 | +13.0% |
| Buckeye Union Mandarin Immersion Charter El Dorado Hills |
Public · charter | 11.1 | — | — |