Summary:
Shingle Springs has five public schools serving elementary, middle and high school grades, with a reported total enrollment of 2,670. The group includes three elementary schools, one middle school and one high school, so schoolwide scores reflect different grade spans. In the latest reported results, two schools stand well above state averages, while another is close to them. The most important takeaway is that academic results vary substantially across the area’s schools rather than pointing to one uniform picture.
Ponderosa High and Miller’s Hill lead the 2025–2026 reported all-grades results: Ponderosa tops ELA at 76%, 26 percentage points above the state, while Miller’s Hill leads math at 58% and science at 62%, respectively 19 and 26 points above the state. Buckeye Elementary has the lowest reported score among the three schools with current results in every subject: 48% in ELA, 40% in math and 37% in science. Those results are close to state levels—1 point below in ELA and 1 point above in math and science. Grade-level results add nuance: Buckeye edges Miller’s Hill in grade 4 ELA and math, while Miller’s Hill leads in grade 5 by 19 points in ELA, 31 in math and 22 in science.
Recent trends favor Ponderosa: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, its results rose 5 percentage points in ELA, 5 in math and 6 in science; Buckeye fell 9, 15 and 13 points, and Miller’s Hill fell 8, 13 and 8 points. SchoolDigger’s reported percentile rankings also varied: Ponderosa’s were 89, 88 and 90 across the listed years, while Buckeye’s were 72, 76 and 58. The 2024–2025 free/reduced lunch eligible measure ranged from 17% at California Montessori Project–Shingle Springs Campus to 40% at Buckeye; it was 18% at Ponderosa, 27% at Miller’s Hill and 29% at Latrobe Elementary. These are context, not explanations of scores. Ponderosa also reports a 98% graduation rate and a 1% dropout rate for 2025–2026. All-grades results combine different grade spans, and smaller schools’ percentages may vary more from year to year.
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