American River Charter
Georgetown · CA · Black Oak Mine Unified · Public charter · K-12 combined
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Divide High → Golden Sierra Junior Senior High → Foresthill High → Weimar Academy → El Dorado High → Summitview Academy → Golden Ridge → Pine Hills Adventist Academy →📋 At a glance
- 📚 1 AP courses offered — Moderate
- ✅ Gifted & talented program
- 🔢 1 calculus classes · 2 physics · 4 chemistry
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 37% of US high schools
- 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 75% (Bottom 21% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How American River Charter 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: Divide High, Golden Sierra Junior Senior High, Foresthill High 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 37% 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 21% 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 Targeted Assistance eligible
35-39% FRPL — qualifies for Title I Targeted Assistance
35-39% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. The school can receive Title I funds targeted to identified students (not schoolwide).
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 +1.4%/year, projecting from 2024's 263 students:
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Revenue upside
At $13,760 per student in district revenue, the 19 students projected to be gained by 2029 represent ≈ $261,440/year in additional funding.
District total revenue ÷ enrollment, NCES F-33. Public funding largely follows enrollment, so a shrinking class is a recurring budget hit.
Nearby high schools — the local competition
The closest high schools families here also consider, and where their enrollment is heading.
| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Divide High Georgetown |
Public | 0.1 | 9 | — |
| Golden Sierra Junior Senior High Garden Valley |
Public | 4.6 | 298 | -8.6% |
| Foresthill High Foresthill |
Public | 7.3 | 190 | +4.4% |
| Weimar Academy Weimar |
Private | 11.9 | 71 | +36.5% |
| El Dorado High Placerville |
Public | 12.4 | 1,135 | -6.5% |
| Summitview Academy Placerville |
Private | 12.5 | 33 | — |
| Golden Ridge Placerville |
Public | 12.8 | — | — |
| Pine Hills Adventist Academy Auburn |
Private | 12.8 | 133 | -5.0% |