Best Elementary Schools in Zip Code 95682

Zip code 95682 in the Shingle Springs/Cameron Park area is served by four high-performing elementary schools, educating over 1,300 students from kindergarten through 8th grade across traditional public and a Montessori charter model.

Parents will find consistently strong academic results here, as all four schools—California Montessori Project-Shingle Springs Campus, Blue Oak Elementary, Buckeye Elementary, and Latrobe Elementary—exceed state averages in English, math, and science. Latrobe Elementary stands out with the highest test scores, while Blue Oak Elementary achieves excellent results with notably efficient spending. A remarkable strength across the entire area is student engagement, with chronic absenteeism rates less than half the state average.

The schools offer distinct choices: California Montessori Project-Shingle Springs Campus provides a unique educational approach through 8th grade, while the two schools in the Buckeye Union Elementary district, Blue Oak and Buckeye, show that similar resources can yield different outcomes, with Blue Oak generally performing slightly higher. The small Latrobe district's elementary school demonstrates that a very low student-teacher ratio correlates with top academic performance, though it requires significantly higher per-student funding.