School district · El Dorado County

Buckeye Union Elementary schools

Buckeye Union Elementary’s 11 public elementary schools run from the 51st to the 99th percentile among the 5,726 California elementary schools we score (spring 2026 tests).

Elementary · 11 schools

from 51st to 99th · among 5,726 California elementary schools we score · spring 2026 tests

  • Buckeye Union Mandarin Immersion Charter: 99th percentile, Strong
  • Rising Sun Montessori: 93rd percentile, Strong
  • Oak Meadow Elementary: 90th percentile, Strong
  • William Brooks Elementary: 87th percentile, Strong
  • Silva Valley Elementary: 87th percentile, Strong
  • Charter Montessori Valley View Campus: 84th percentile, Strong
  • California Montessori Project-Shingle Springs Campus: 81st percentile, Strong
  • Blue Oak Elementary: 77th percentile, Strong
  • Clarksville Charter: 66th percentile, Solid
  • Cottonwood: 57th percentile, Solid
  • Buckeye Elementary: 51st percentile, Solid
0Needs Support
0Developing
3Solid
8Strong

One dot per school.

Middle and high school pictures

Middle · 7 schools

from 72nd to 99th · among 2,529 California middle schools we score · spring 2026 tests

  • Buckeye Union Mandarin Immersion Charter: 99th percentile, Strong
  • Rolling Hills Middle: 94th percentile, Strong
  • Charter Montessori Valley View Campus: 89th percentile, Strong
  • Camerado Springs Middle: 85th percentile, Strong
  • Clarksville Charter: 80th percentile, Strong
  • California Montessori Project-Shingle Springs Campus: 79th percentile, Strong
  • Cottonwood: 72nd percentile, Solid
0Needs Support
0Developing
1Solid
6Strong

High · 2 schools

from 78th to 79th · among 1,498 California high schools we score · spring 2025 tests

  • Clarksville Charter: 79th percentile, Strong
  • Cottonwood: 78th percentile, Strong
0Needs Support
0Developing
0Solid
2Strong

One dot per school. Each stage is placed only among California schools at its own level. 5 of the 13 ranked schools teach more than one level, 2 of them all three, so they appear in more than one picture.

  • 13 ranked schools
  • 6 of 13 are charter schools

Schools around the Buckeye Union Elementary district

13 listed public schools with mapped locations.

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Percentile among California schools at the same level

  • Strong75th+
  • Solid50–74th
  • Developing25–49th
  • Needs Supportbelow 25th
  • Not scored

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Elementary schools

Which elementary schools in the Buckeye Union Elementary district score highest?

Buckeye Union Mandarin Immersion Charter is highest, at the 99th percentile.

That’s higher than 99 in 100 of the 5,726 California elementary schools we score (spring 2026 tests).

Highest in the Buckeye Union Elementary district

Each percentile compares a school with California schools at its own level. What patterns mean

Show the other 8 elementary schools
Context

The average elementary school in the Buckeye Union Elementary district had 4 in 100 students chronically absent (missed 10% or more of school days) in 2025–26; the average California elementary school we score had 17 in 100. Both are averages of school rates, each school counted once.

Middle schools

Which middle schools in the Buckeye Union Elementary district score highest?

Buckeye Union Mandarin Immersion Charter is highest, at the 99th percentile.

That’s higher than 99 in 100 of the 2,529 California middle schools we score (spring 2026 tests).

Highest in the Buckeye Union Elementary district

Each percentile compares a school with California schools at its own level. What patterns mean

Show the other 4 middle schools
Context

The average middle school in the Buckeye Union Elementary district had 4 in 100 students chronically absent in 2025–26; the average California middle school we score had 18 in 100.

High schools

Which high schools in the Buckeye Union Elementary district score highest?

Clarksville Charter is highest, at the 79th percentile.

That’s higher than 79 in 100 of the 1,498 California high schools we score (spring 2025 tests).

Highest in the Buckeye Union Elementary district

Each percentile compares a school with California schools at its own level.

  • Clarksville CharterEl Dorado Hills · Charter school. Check how it admits students.
    79thStrongScope Score 68
  • CottonwoodEl Dorado Hills · Charter school. Check how it admits students.
    78thStrongScope Score 67

The district

Where does Buckeye Union Elementary’s money go, and what does it plan?

The Buckeye Union Elementary district spent $14,962 per student in the 2024–25 school year.

The typical California district spent $20,491. About 64 cents of every Buckeye Union Elementary dollar went to classroom instruction.

Spending by function

Day-to-day spending per student in average daily attendance, from the district’s annual financial report (SACS) to the California Department of Education. District-wide: it includes central administration and costs never assigned to one campus.

Share by function, 2024–25

  • Instruction64%
  • Instruction support8%
  • Student services9%
  • Administration9%
  • Buildings & maintenance10%

Shares of the same spending total, by the report’s spending categories, rounded so they add up to 100. Names are simplified from the report’s own categories.

What the district plans

$53.5 million

planned in its 2026–27 plan for 32 funded actions in 3 goals. That’s more than its $50.8 million general fund budget. Its largest action, Provide: Highly Qualified and Appropriately Assigned Certificated Employees, is $22.4 million. These are planned amounts; the district reports what it spent in a later plan.

The plan in short

Source: the district’s yearly spending plan (Local Control and Accountability Plan, or LCAP, 92 pages), as posted to the California School Dashboard.

Where the money goes

Three actions take 68% of the money. The plan itself puts 78% of it toward staff.

  • Provide: Highly Qualified and Appropriately Assigned Certificated Employees $22.4 million
  • Provide: Highly Qualified Classified Employees $8.7 million
  • Facilities Support Services $5.1 million
  • 29 other actions
Reading, math and catch-up help

5 of the plan’s 32 funded actions name reading, math, catch-up help or English learners in their titles.

Actions whose titles name reading, catch-up help or English learners
  • Reading $88,428
  • Catch-up help $150,002
  • English learners $50,869

An action naming two of these appears under both.

Largest of these

  • Grade Level Readiness - Certificated Intervention Teachers$133,449
  • FTE Reading Support Class @ Rolling Hills$88,428
  • FTE District-Wide ELL Coordinator$47,316
For high-need students (English learners, low-income students and foster youth), what changed and what its goals measure
For high-need students

It plans $1.7 million in extra services for English learners, low-income students and foster youth. For 2025–26, it planned $2.0 million and estimates it spent $2.0 million, the same as planned.

What changed

The total is $2.2 million (4%) higher than in the 2025–26 plan. The biggest change in dollars is Provide: Highly Qualified and Appropriately Assigned Certificated Employees, which went from $21.7 million to $22.4 million.

Largest increases

  • Provide: Highly Qualified and Appropriately Assigned Certificated Employees+⁠$688,391
  • Facilities Support Services+⁠$595,215
  • Board-adopted Instructional Materials+⁠$293,166
What its goals measure

Read these state results for the district’s own schools as context for the goals they measure; results alone can’t show what the plan caused.

What its goals measure: state results, 2024–25 and 2025–26
Measure2024–252025–26Change
English, every tested grade: Proficient or Advanced in 2025–26, met or exceeded in 2024–25Goal 171%69%down 2 pts
Math, every tested grade: Proficient or Advanced in 2025–26, met or exceeded in 2024–25Goal 166%62%down 4 pts
Chronically absentCounted across all the district’s students, not averaged by schoolGoal 26 in 1006 in 100no change
Suspended at least onceGoal 22.2%1.8%down 0.4 pts

Goal 3 isn’t shown because it tracks other measures.

Figures from CDE’s state test, chronic absence and suspension files. Test figures cover every grade the district tests (California tests grades 3–8 and 11), so they differ from a profile’s rated grades. We combined the district’s schools ourselves, weighted by students and leaving out charter schools. Chronically absent means a student missed 10% or more of school days.

The plan’s own titles and amounts
  • Provide: Highly Qualified and Appropriately Assigned Certificated Employees · $22,420,001
  • Provide: Highly Qualified Classified Employees · $8,718,888
  • Facilities Support Services · $5,130,804
The full plan3 goals, 3 measures and where the money goes

We calculate each action’s share of the plan by dividing its planned amount by the total of the plan’s funded actions ($53.5 million).

Where does the money go?

71% to Goal 1. Each box is one action, sized by its planned dollars and coloured by its change since last year’s plan. Tap a box to open its goal.

G1
G2

Change since the 2025–26 plan, same title

  • fell 25% or more
  • fell 10–25%
  • fell 2–10%
  • within 2%
  • grew 2–10%
  • grew 10–25%
  • grew 25% or more
  • new or renamed title
  • not compared: unconfirmed, or repeated across goals
  • small actions drawn together

Every goal, in the plan’s order

Goal 1Student Achievement – Maximize the performance of each student and eliminate performance gaps between…$37.8 million71% of action budgets

“Student Achievement – Maximize the performance of each student and eliminate performance gaps between significantly numbered demographic subgroups” p. 12 ↗

16 funded actions · 2025–26 plan: $36.5 million (+⁠$1.3 million)

Largest funded actions

  1. Provide: Highly Qualified and Appropriately Assigned Certificated Employees$22.4 millionaction 1.1 · p. 50 ↗
  2. Provide: Highly Qualified Classified Employees$8.7 millionaction 1.2 · p. 50 ↗
  3. Board-adopted Instructional Materials$2.5 millionaction 1.13 · p. 51 ↗
  4. Physical Education Instructors$1.4 millionaction 1.9 · p. 51 ↗
  5. Site-determined, SPSA-based actions to support Goal 1$0.9 millionaction 1.16 · p. 51 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services

11 more funded actions in this goal

  • Library Associates · action 1.10 · p. 51 ↗$0.5 million
  • FTE Speech and Language Pathologist and 1.0 SLPA · action 1.7 · p. 50 ↗$0.4 million
  • Additional Class Sections · action 1.5 · p. 50 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services$0.2 million
  • Professional Development to support implementation of state standards · action 1.12 · p. 51 ↗$0.2 million
  • Targeted Collaboration: Grade-level data-based decision-making and standards alignment · action 1.6 · p. 50 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services$0.2 million
  • Grade Level Readiness - Certificated Intervention Teachers · action 1.11 · p. 51 ↗$0.1 million
  • International Baccalaureate (IB) Program Support · action 1.3 · p. 50 ↗$0.1 million
  • FTE Reading Support Class @ Rolling Hills · action 1.4 · p. 50 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services$0.1 million
  • FTE District-Wide ELL Coordinator · action 1.8 · p. 51 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need servicesunder $0.1 million
  • Credit Recovery Options · action 1.14 · p. 51 ↗under $0.1 million
  • ELL Summer School · action 1.15 · p. 51 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need servicesunder $0.1 million

Changes from last year’s plan, same title

  1. Provide: Highly Qualified and Appropriately Assigned Certificated Employees+⁠$0.7 million$21.7 million → $22.4 million · p. 50 ↗
  2. Board-adopted Instructional Materials+⁠$0.3 million$2.2 million → $2.5 million · p. 51 ↗
  3. Provide: Highly Qualified Classified Employees+⁠$0.3 million$8.5 million → $8.7 million · p. 50 ↗

Every other line in this goal, against last year’s plan

  • Physical Education Instructors · $1.4 million → $1.4 million · p. 51 ↗−⁠$35,604
  • Site-determined, SPSA-based actions to support Goal 1 · $699,472 → $935,862 · p. 51 ↗+⁠$236,390
  • Library Associates · $440,448 → $450,429 · p. 51 ↗+⁠$9,981
  • FTE Speech and Language Pathologist and 1.0 SLPA · $374,205 → $358,530 · p. 50 ↗−⁠$15,675
  • Additional Class Sections · $307,132 → $235,443 · p. 50 ↗−⁠$71,689
  • Professional Development to support implementation of state standards · $182,496 → $184,250 · p. 51 ↗+⁠$1,754
  • Targeted Collaboration: Grade-level data-based decision-making and standards alignment · $160,000 → $172,000 · p. 50 ↗+⁠$12,000
  • Grade Level Readiness - Certificated Intervention Teachers · $210,184 → $133,449 · p. 51 ↗−⁠$76,735
  • International Baccalaureate (IB) Program Support · $91,823 → $92,736 · p. 50 ↗+⁠$913
  • FTE Reading Support Class @ Rolling Hills · $87,601 → $88,428 · p. 50 ↗+⁠$827
  • FTE District-Wide ELL Coordinator · $45,676 → $47,316 · p. 51 ↗+⁠$1,640
  • Credit Recovery Options · $13,000 → $13,000 · p. 51 ↗unchanged
  • ELL Summer School · $3,552 → $3,553 · p. 51 ↗+⁠$1

How the plan measures it · 1 measure

None of these has an all-students line we can quote; the plan’s table lists them from p. 12 ↗.

Goal 2Promote the social-emotional and behavioral development of each student$15.7 million29% of action budgets

14 funded actions · 2025–26 plan: $14.8 million (+⁠$907,683) · p. 23 ↗

Largest funded actions

  1. Facilities Support Services$5.1 millionaction 2.16 · p. 52 ↗
  2. Instructional Assistants$2.8 millionaction 2.9 · p. 52 ↗
  3. Nutritional Services$2.8 millionaction 2.15 · p. 52 ↗
  4. Transportation Services$1.2 millionaction 2.17 · p. 52 ↗
  5. District-wide Health Services: School Nurses and Health Clerks$0.9 millionaction 2.5 · p. 52 ↗

9 more funded actions in this goal

  • District-wide School Psychologists · action 2.6 · p. 52 ↗$0.9 million
  • School Counselors - Social-Emotional Support and Engagement/​Attendance · action 2.3 · p. 52 ↗$0.6 million
  • Behavior Technicians · action 2.8 · p. 52 ↗$0.5 million
  • District-wide Behaviorist · action 2.7 · p. 52 ↗$0.3 million
  • Visual and Performing Arts Opportunities · action 2.10 · p. 52 ↗$0.3 million
  • Assistant Principal @ Camerado Springs · action 2.11 · p. 52 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services$0.2 million
  • Common Student Assessment System · action 2.19 · p. 53 ↗$0.1 million
  • Positive Behavioral Intervention and Supports (PBIS) implementation · action 2.13 · p. 52 ↗under $0.1 million
  • Love and Logic Training · action 2.14 · p. 52 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need servicesunder $0.1 million

Changes from last year’s plan, same title

  1. Facilities Support Services+⁠$0.6 million$4.5 million → $5.1 million · p. 52 ↗
  2. Nutritional Services+⁠$0.2 million$2.5 million → $2.8 million · p. 52 ↗
  3. District-wide Health Services: School Nurses and Health Clerks+⁠$123,551$808,485 → $932,036 · p. 52 ↗

Every other line in this goal, against last year’s plan

  • Instructional Assistants · $2.7 million → $2.8 million · p. 52 ↗+⁠$0.1 million
  • Transportation Services · $1.2 million → $1.2 million · p. 52 ↗+⁠$12,028
  • District-wide School Psychologists · $992,395 → $919,167 · p. 52 ↗−⁠$73,228
  • School Counselors - Social-Emotional Support and Engagement/​Attendance · $557,097 → $556,056 · p. 52 ↗−⁠$1,041
  • Behavior Technicians · $506,964 → $506,964 · p. 52 ↗unchanged
  • District-wide Behaviorist · $307,741 → $316,774 · p. 52 ↗+⁠$9,033
  • Visual and Performing Arts Opportunities · $271,116 → $272,797 · p. 52 ↗+⁠$1,681
  • Assistant Principal @ Camerado Springs · $170,814 → $177,058 · p. 52 ↗+⁠$6,244
  • Common Student Assessment System · $63,566 → $72,577 · p. 53 ↗+⁠$9,011
  • Positive Behavioral Intervention and Supports (PBIS) implementation · $17,046 → $17,046 · p. 52 ↗unchanged
  • Love and Logic Training · $1,000 → $1,000 · p. 52 ↗unchanged

How the plan measures it · 1 measure

None of these has an all-students line we can quote; the plan’s table lists them from p. 23 ↗.

Goal 3 · Maintenance of Progress GoalMaintain strong parent engagement, community relations and communications$8,900under 1% of action budgets

2 funded actions · 2025–26 plan: $8,900 (unchanged) · p. 36 ↗

Largest funded actions

  1. Translation and Interpretation Services$6,400action 3.1 · p. 53 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services
  2. Family Communication Tools$2,500action 3.2 · p. 53 ↗

Every other line in this goal, against last year’s plan

  • Translation and Interpretation Services · $6,400 → $6,400 · p. 53 ↗unchanged
  • Family Communication Tools · $2,500 → $2,500 · p. 53 ↗unchanged

How the plan measures it · 1 measure

None of these has an all-students line we can quote; the plan’s table lists them from p. 36 ↗.

All amounts are planned. We read them from the PDF and added up each goal’s actions ourselves. Page links open the plan at that page.

Who goes to the district’s schools
Who attends

Student mix

2024–25 · October enrollment count, 10,761 students
1. White: 65%2. Hispanic or Latino: 16%3. Two or more races: 8%4. Asian: 6%5. Not reported: 3%6. Black or African American: 1%7. Filipino: <1%8. American Indian or Alaska Native: <1%9. Pacific Islander: <1%Student mix2024–25
  1. White65%
  2. Hispanic or Latino16%
  3. Two or more races8%
  4. Asian6%
  5. Not reported3%
  6. Black or African American1%
  7. Filipino<1%
  8. American Indian or Alaska Native<1%
  9. Pacific Islander<1%
Shares use the district's own October enrollment counts from the CDE, including its charter schools.

Free or reduced-price meals

29%

Across California, 63% of students qualify.

2024–25 · 3,167 of 10,759 students qualify, summed from the CDE’s meal counts for every school it lists under the district, charters included. It comes from a different CDE file than the student mix, so the two totals differ.

The district’s state records

Is the state giving the district extra help?

Buckeye Union Elementary isn’t getting extra state help in 2026, only the standard support every district gets.

How English learners moved up on the state’s English test

From spring 2025 to spring 2026, 58% of the district’s English learners moved up at least one level on the state’s English test (ELPAC), or stayed at the top (39 of 67 students). California: 47%. It counts students moving up the test’s levels, so a student can count here before becoming fluent.

Sources: District help (CDE) ↗ · English learner progress (CDE) ↗. State results from the 2026 California School Dashboard.

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Common questions

Which public schools in the Buckeye Union Elementary district rank highest?

Elementary: Buckeye Union Mandarin Immersion Charter, 99th percentile (Strong). Middle: Buckeye Union Mandarin Immersion Charter, 99th percentile (Strong). High: Clarksville Charter, 79th percentile (Strong). Each percentile is among the California schools at the same level we score. A rank doesn’t decide fit or whether a child can enroll.

Does living in the Buckeye Union Elementary district decide which school my child attends?

Not by itself. Attendance boundaries, programs, transfers and space all matter. Confirm the school for your address, grade and program with the district.
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Are the public schools in the Buckeye Union Elementary district good?

Buckeye Union Elementary’s 11 public elementary schools run from the 51st to the 99th percentile among the 5,726 California elementary schools we score (spring 2026 tests). By band: 8 Strong and 3 Solid. Buckeye Union Elementary’s 7 public middle schools run from the 72nd to the 99th percentile among the 2,529 California middle schools we score (spring 2026 tests). By band: 6 Strong and 1 Solid. Buckeye Union Elementary’s 2 public high schools run from the 78th to the 79th percentile among the 1,498 California high schools we score (spring 2025 tests). By band: 2 Strong. A percentile compares a school with California public schools at the same level that we score. How we score schools.

How does chronic absence in the Buckeye Union Elementary district compare with California?

The average elementary school in the Buckeye Union Elementary district had 4 in 100 students chronically absent (missed 10% or more of school days) in 2025–26; the average California elementary school we score had 17 in 100. Both are averages of school rates, each school counted once. The average middle school in the Buckeye Union Elementary district had 4 in 100 students chronically absent in 2025–26; the average California middle school we score had 18 in 100. These are averages of school rates: each school counts once, whatever its size.

How much does the Buckeye Union Elementary district spend per student?

The Buckeye Union Elementary district spent $14,962 per student in the 2024–25 school year. The typical California district spent $20,491. About 64 cents of every Buckeye Union Elementary dollar went to classroom instruction. Day-to-day spending per student in average daily attendance, from its annual financial report to the California Department of Education. The district’s spending, by function.

What is in the Buckeye Union Elementary district’s 2026–27 spending plan?

The district’s 2026–27 spending plan puts $53.5 million into 32 funded actions in 3 goals, more than its $50.8 million general fund budget. Its largest goal holds $37.8 million, 71% of the action budgets. The 2026–27 plan, goal by goal.

Where do these results come from?

California’s state tests (CAASPP): spring 2026 for elementary and middle schools, spring 2025 for high schools, and chronic-absence rates for 2025–26, published by the California Department of Education. Percentiles, bands and Scope Scores are SchoolScope’s calculations. How we score schools.

Sources and methodology

This page lists the public schools governed and funded by the Buckeye Union Elementary district, with the district’s spending and state accountability records.

Data source: California Department of Education · CAASPP 2025–26 elementary and middle school; 2024–25 high school

Percentiles, bands and Scope Scores are SchoolScope’s own calculations from these state files.

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