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El Dorado Hills · Schools

El Dorado Hills schools: it depends on the street.

El Dorado Hills is not one school district. It is three, and the kindergarten through eight boundary was drawn around parcels rather than around neighborhoods, so it cuts straight through them. Two houses a few minutes apart, in the same community, behind the same gate, can feed different schools. Here is every school with how it ranks, which district it belongs to, and the two official tools that settle it for a specific address in about ten seconds.

The part that catches people out

Three districts, and the line does not follow the neighborhood.

High school is the easy half. The whole of El Dorado Hills is El Dorado Union High School District, and in practice that means Oak Ridge. Nobody gets caught out on the high school.

Kindergarten through eight is the half that catches people. It is split between Buckeye Union and Rescue Union, two separate districts with two separate enrollment processes, and the boundary between them runs through communities instead of around them.

Serrano is the clearest example. It sits in both districts at once. You can see it on the tax bill, where houses inside the same gates carry one of two different school special tax charge codes depending on which side of the line they fall.

So the honest answer to what school is this house in is never the neighborhood name, and it is never the listing description. It is the address, every time. Knowing which side of a street sits in which district is the kind of thing you only get from working a small patch for a long time, and I still look it up rather than trust my memory.

Check the address

Both districts publish a lookup. Use it before you fall in love.

These are the districts' own tools, not a third party guess, and they are the only thing I would rely on. Put in the physical address of the house, not the neighborhood.

1Buckeye Union School DistrictThe district explorer at buckeyedistrictexplorer.azurewebsites.net returns the school of residence for a physical address. Buckeye covers part of El Dorado Hills plus Cameron Park and Shingle Springs.

2Rescue Union School DistrictThe school explorer linked from rescueusd.org under Maps and Boundaries does the same for the Rescue side. Rescue covers the rest of El Dorado Hills plus the town of Rescue.

3Or send me the addressI will pull the school district and the special tax on any parcel you are looking at, before you write an offer rather than after. It takes me a few minutes and it has changed which house people bought more than once.

Boundaries do get redrawn, and a district can move a street when a school fills up. Anything you read on a property listing or an agent site, including this one, is a snapshot. The district tool is the live answer.

The schools

Every public school in El Dorado Hills, and where it ranks.

Statewide rankings are SchoolDigger's, on 2024 to 2025 data, read on 30 September 2026. Elementary schools are ranked against every elementary school in California, middle against middle and high against high, so read down a level rather than across them. A rank is a blunt instrument and no substitute for walking into the building, but it is a fair starting point and it is at least the same measure applied to everybody.

SchoolStatewide rankGradesDistrict, and what to know

Lakeview Elementary

387th of 5,857

TK to 5

Rescue Union. The highest ranked elementary school in town on this measure.

Silva Valley Elementary

419th of 5,857

K to 5

Buckeye Union.

Jackson Elementary

435th of 5,857

TK to 5

Rescue Union.

Oak Meadow Elementary

437th of 5,857

K to 5

Buckeye Union.

William Brooks Elementary

713th of 5,857

K to 5

Buckeye Union.

Lake Forest Elementary

730th of 5,857

TK to 5

Rescue Union.

Rolling Hills Middle

119th of 2,761

6 to 8

Buckeye Union. The strongest statewide standing of any school in El Dorado Hills at any level.

Marina Village Middle

198th of 2,761

6 to 8

Rescue Union.

Oak Ridge High

104th of 2,162

9 to 12

El Dorado Union High. The whole town feeds here. About 2,352 students enrolled for 2025 to 2026, and 97.6 percent graduate in four years against a California average of 88 percent.

Both districts also run schools outside El Dorado Hills that share the district name. Buckeye Union runs Blue Oak Elementary and Camerado Springs Middle in Cameron Park and Buckeye Elementary in Shingle Springs. Rescue Union runs Green Valley Elementary, Rescue Elementary and Pleasant Grove Middle in Rescue. If you are looking at Cameron Park or Shingle Springs, that is a different set of schools under the same district name.

The other options

Charters and alternatives, in town.

El Dorado Hills has an unusual amount of choice for a town this size, and several of these draw families from well outside the boundary. Buckeye Union runs a Mandarin immersion charter and Valley View Charter Montessori, both International Baccalaureate programs. Beyond the districts there is John Adams Academy, Clarksville Charter, Cottonwood and Rising Sun Montessori.

I have deliberately not put statewide rankings against these. Several enroll too few tested students for a comparable ranking to mean anything, and publishing a number that cannot carry the weight put on it is worse than publishing none. Go and sit in the classrooms.

If you are buying

The order to do this in.

Check the address in the district tool before the second showing, not after the offer. If the school is one of the two or three reasons you are moving here, it belongs at the front of the search rather than as a thing you confirm at the end.

Do not let a listing description settle it. Agents write the neighborhood's best known school into the remarks in good faith and get it wrong, because the boundary does not follow the neighborhood. I have seen it more than once, and I have written it wrong myself before I started looking everything up.

And hold the two questions apart. The school district and the Mello-Roos district are different lines on the same tax bill, drawn by different bodies, and neither tells you anything about the other. What it actually costs to live here is worked out separately.

If you are selling

Name the actual school, not the famous one.

If your house feeds a strong school, that is a reason a family pays your number, and it belongs in the marketing by name with the district next to it. Vague is worth nothing here. Buyers moving to El Dorado Hills for the schools are specific people who already know the names.

And if it feeds a school other than the one the neighborhood is known for, they will find that out. Better that they find it out from you, early, than at the inspection when it feels like something you hid.

Nearby, for comparison

Folsom and Granite Bay work differently.

Folsom is all one district, Folsom Cordova Unified, which is simpler than El Dorado Hills in exactly the way people assume El Dorado Hills is. Two high schools, Folsom High and Vista del Lago. Granite Bay is Eureka Union for kindergarten through eight and then Granite Bay High, a National Blue Ribbon school in the Roseville Joint Union district.

If schools are the reason you are moving at all, it is worth comparing the four honestly before you settle on a town, because they are genuinely different systems and not just different names.

Send me the address.

Before you offer, I will pull the school district, the special tax and anything else that sits on the parcel, and tell you straight what I would do. Fifteen minutes, no obligation, and no list to get on.

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Where these figures come from

School lists and grade spans: the Buckeye Union School District and Rescue Union School District schools pages, read 30 September 2026. Address lookups: the Buckeye district explorer and the Rescue school explorer, both published by the districts themselves, read 30 September 2026. Statewide rankings: SchoolDigger, 2024 to 2025 data, read 30 September 2026. Oak Ridge enrollment of 2,352 for 2025 to 2026: EdData. Graduation rate: SchoolDigger, which shows Oak Ridge above the California average of 88 percent.

Two school districts within Serrano: evidenced by the separate Buckeye and Rescue school special tax charge codes in the El Dorado County Auditor-Controller's AB 2109 letter. Folsom and Granite Bay district and school details: Folsom Cordova Unified, Roseville Joint Union and the US Department of Education Blue Ribbon list.

Rankings and boundaries both change. Nothing here replaces the district's own lookup for a specific address, and none of it is a promise about which school a particular house will be assigned to next year.

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