School district · El Dorado County

Rescue Union Elementary schools

Rescue Union Elementary runs schools through 8th grade. Its 5 public elementary schools run from the 67th to the 93rd percentile among the 5,726 California elementary schools we score (spring 2026 tests). High school is run by another district; confirm the school for your address with the district.

Elementary · 5 schools

from 67th to 93rd · among 5,726 California elementary schools we score · spring 2026 tests

  • Lakeview Elementary: 93rd percentile, Strong
  • Jackson Elementary: 85th percentile, Strong
  • Rescue Elementary: 83rd percentile, Strong
  • Lake Forest Elementary: 68th percentile, Solid
  • Green Valley Elementary: 67th percentile, Solid
0Needs Support
0Developing
2Solid
3Strong

Middle · 2 schools

from 67th to 89th · among 2,529 California middle schools we score · spring 2026 tests

  • Marina Village Middle: 89th percentile, Strong
  • Pleasant Grove Middle: 67th percentile, Solid
0Needs Support
0Developing
1Solid
1Strong

One dot per school. Each stage is placed only among California schools at its own level.

Schools around the Rescue Union Elementary district

7 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 Rescue Union Elementary district score highest?

Lakeview Elementary is highest, at the 93rd percentile.

That’s higher than 93 in 100 California elementary schools we score (spring 2026 tests).

Highest in the Rescue Union Elementary district

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

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Context

The average elementary school in the Rescue Union Elementary district had 8 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 Rescue Union Elementary district score highest?

Marina Village Middle is highest, at the 89th percentile.

That’s higher than 89 in 100 California middle schools we score (spring 2026 tests).

Highest in the Rescue Union Elementary district

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

The district

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

The Rescue Union Elementary district spent $13,710 per student in the 2024–25 school year.

The typical California district spent $20,491. About 63 cents of every Rescue 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

  • Instruction63%
  • Instruction support10%
  • Student services10%
  • Administration6%
  • Buildings & maintenance11%

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

$54.7 million

planned in its 2026–27 plan for 9 funded actions in 3 goals. That’s all of its general fund budget. 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, 100 pages), as posted to the California School Dashboard.

Where the money goes

Three actions take 80% of the money. The plan itself puts 80% of it toward staff.

  • Certificated Staff $24.5 million
  • Non-instructional Personnel $10.6 million
  • Materials and Supplies for Non-instructional operations $8.6 million
  • 6 other actions
Reading, math and catch-up help

No action title in this plan names reading, math, catch-up help or English learners.

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 $1.4 million in extra services for English learners, low-income students and foster youth. For 2025–26, it planned $1.5 million and estimates it spent $1.5 million, $0.1 million (5%) less than planned (our arithmetic).

Ask: Why did estimated spending on these services come in $0.1 million under the 2025–26 plan, and where does that money go in 2026–27?

What changed

The total is $1.6 million (3%) higher than in the 2025–26 plan. The biggest change in dollars is Classified Staff, which went from $2.9 million to $4.0 million.

Largest cuts

  • Instructional resources−⁠$519,194
  • Materials and Supplies for Non-instructional operations−⁠$468,649

Largest increases

  • Classified Staff+⁠$1.1 million
  • Certificated Staff+⁠$530,497
  • Non-instructional Personnel+⁠$521,121
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%73%up 2 pts
Math, every tested grade: Proficient or Advanced in 2025–26, met or exceeded in 2024–25Goal 163%63%no change
Chronically absentCounted across all the district’s students, not averaged by schoolGoal 28 in 1008 in 100no change
Suspended at least onceGoal 22.1%2.3%up 0.2 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
  • Certificated Staff · $24,477,597
  • Non-instructional Personnel · $10,569,879
  • Materials and Supplies for Non-instructional operations · $8,598,661
The full plan3 goals, 26 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 ($54.7 million).

Where does the money go?

59% 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
G3

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

Every goal, in the plan’s order

Goal 1The District will provide excellent educational services to maximize academic achievement for each individual…$32.2 million59% of action budgets

“The District will provide excellent educational services to maximize academic achievement for each individual student and all student groups” p. 19 ↗

4 funded actions · 2025–26 plan: $31.0 million (+⁠$1.2 million)

Largest funded actions

  1. Certificated Staff$24.5 millionaction 1.1 · p. 64 ↗
  2. Classified Staff$4.0 millionaction 1.2 · p. 64 ↗
  3. Instructional resources$1.9 millionaction 1.5 · p. 64 ↗
  4. Unduplicated Pupil Supports$1.8 millionaction 1.4 · p. 64 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services · of which $1.4 million is state funding counted toward those services

Changes from last year’s plan, same title

  1. Classified Staff+⁠$1.1 million$2.9 million → $4.0 million · p. 64 ↗
  2. Certificated Staff+⁠$0.5 million$23.9 million → $24.5 million · p. 64 ↗
  3. Instructional resources−⁠$0.5 million$2.4 million → $1.9 million · p. 64 ↗

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

  • Unduplicated Pupil Supports · $1.7 million → $1.8 million · p. 64 ↗+⁠$0.1 million

How the plan measures it · 13 measures

None of these has an all-students line we can quote; the plan’s table lists them from p. 19 ↗.

Goal 2The District will provide safe, student-centered learning environments that are responsive to the…$3.4 million6% of action budgets

“The District will provide safe, student-centered learning environments that are responsive to the social-emotional needs of all children and families” p. 37 ↗

3 funded actions · 2025–26 plan: $3.0 million (+⁠$361,583)

Largest funded actions

  1. Safe School Personnel$3.0 millionaction 2.2 · p. 64 ↗
  2. Safe School (Materials and Supplies)$0.2 millionaction 2.3 · p. 64 ↗
  3. Social Emotional Learning$0.1 millionaction 2.1 · p. 64 ↗

Changes from last year’s plan, same title

  1. Safe School Personnel+⁠$0.3 million$2.7 million → $3.0 million · p. 64 ↗
  2. Safe School (Materials and Supplies)+⁠$42,768$192,132 → $234,900 · p. 64 ↗
  3. Social Emotional Learning−⁠$6,028$94,348 → $88,320 · p. 64 ↗

How the plan measures it · 8 measures

None of these has an all-students line we can quote; the plan’s table lists them from p. 37 ↗.

Goal 3 · Maintenance of Progress GoalThe District will provide technical infrastructure and systems of support that allow excellent education and…$19.2 million35% of action budgets

“The District will provide technical infrastructure and systems of support that allow excellent education and effective learning environments to flourish” p. 55 ↗

2 funded actions · 2025–26 plan: $19.1 million (+⁠$52,472)

Largest funded actions

  1. Non-instructional Personnel$10.6 millionaction 3.1 · p. 64 ↗
  2. Materials and Supplies for Non-instructional operations$8.6 millionaction 3.2 · p. 64 ↗

Changes from last year’s plan, same title

  1. Non-instructional Personnel+⁠$0.5 million$10.0 million → $10.6 million · p. 64 ↗
  2. Materials and Supplies for Non-instructional operations−⁠$0.5 million$9.1 million → $8.6 million · p. 64 ↗

How the plan measures it · 5 measures

None of these has an all-students line we can quote; the plan’s table lists them from p. 55 ↗.

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, 3,549 students
1. White: 71%2. Hispanic or Latino: 16%3. Asian: 7%4. Two or more races: 3%5. Filipino: 2%6. Black or African American: 1%7. American Indian or Alaska Native: <1%8. Pacific Islander: <1%Student mix2024–25
  1. White71%
  2. Hispanic or Latino16%
  3. Asian7%
  4. Two or more races3%
  5. Filipino2%
  6. Black or African American1%
  7. American Indian or Alaska Native<1%
  8. Pacific Islander<1%
  9. Not reported0%
Shares use the district's own October enrollment counts from the CDE, including its charter schools.

Free or reduced-price meals

19%

Across California, 63% of students qualify.

2024–25 · 663 of 3,542 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?

The state is giving Rescue Union Elementary extra help in 2026, the second year after it qualified on the 2025 Dashboard.

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

From spring 2025 to spring 2026, 62% of the district’s English learners moved up at least one level on the state’s English test (ELPAC), or stayed at the top (38 of 61 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 Rescue Union Elementary district rank highest?

Elementary: Lakeview Elementary, 93rd percentile (Strong). Middle: Marina Village Middle, 89th 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 Rescue 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 Rescue Union Elementary district good?

Rescue Union Elementary’s 5 public elementary schools run from the 67th to the 93rd percentile among the 5,726 California elementary schools we score (spring 2026 tests). By band: 3 Strong and 2 Solid. Rescue Union Elementary’s 2 public middle schools run from the 67th to the 89th percentile among the 2,529 California middle schools we score (spring 2026 tests). By band: 1 Strong and 1 Solid. 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 Rescue Union Elementary district compare with California?

The average elementary school in the Rescue Union Elementary district had 8 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. These are averages of school rates: each school counts once, whatever its size.

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

The Rescue Union Elementary district spent $13,710 per student in the 2024–25 school year. The typical California district spent $20,491. About 63 cents of every Rescue 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 Rescue Union Elementary district’s 2026–27 spending plan?

The district’s 2026–27 spending plan puts $54.7 million into 9 funded actions in 3 goals, all of its general fund budget. Its largest goal holds $32.2 million, 59% of the action budgets. The 2026–27 plan, goal by goal.

Where do these results come from?

California’s state tests (CAASPP) from spring 2026 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 Rescue Union Elementary district, with the district’s spending and state accountability records.

Data source: California Department of Education · CAASPP 2025–26

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

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