Green Valley Elementary, Rescue CA

Original Research by School Decision on Green Valley Elementary

Green Valley Elementary serves kindergarten through fifth grade in Rescue, an unincorporated rural community in the Sierra foothills of El Dorado County. The school sits on Bass Lake Road, a main corridor through the area, and draws from a landscape of farmland, vineyards, ranches, and increasingly dense residential neighborhoods. The enrollment is small, around several hundred students, with a student body that is predominantly white and includes a meaningful share of Hispanic students. About four in ten students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a marker of economic need that reflects the mixed income profile of the surrounding community.

In mathematics, school-wide proficiency across tested grades sits at a moderate level. Third graders show proficiency at roughly the midpoint, fourth graders perform somewhat above the midpoint, and fifth graders score below the midpoint. English language arts performance is comparatively stronger, with third and fourth graders showing solid proficiency and fifth graders performing at similar strength. Fifth-grade science proficiency is lower, at roughly midpoint. Overall, the school's proficiency index across all tested subjects and grades places it in the top quartile among El Dorado County's elementary schools, a strength worth noting. The data available covers one year only, so longer trends in performance are not visible here.

The school sits within Rescue Union Elementary School District, which operates five elementary and two middle schools across the area. Rescue itself has minimal local employment and is car-dependent; most families commute some distance to reach work in the broader county or toward Sacramento. Housing values in the zip code where Green Valley sits are above the state median, though specific current-year affordability metrics were not available. The community is growing: significant new residential subdivisions are planned or under development along the Bass Lake Road corridor and nearby sites, a trajectory that may shape enrollment and school resources in coming years.

The school serves grades where state testing is routine and provides a direct measure of academic standing. The relatively strong showing against county peers suggests capable instruction and a school environment worth considering for families in the area who value a small-school setting and are comfortable with the rural, commuter-dependent character of Rescue. Like all elementary schools in this grade band, it does not have a graduation rate or data on attendance and chronic absenteeism, so those benchmarks are not available. A parent may want to reach out directly to understand the mix of programs, special services such as English learner or special education supports, and the school's approach to literacy and mathematics instruction, since those details were not captured in the public data examined here.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 354%

School 54% · District 74% · ▼ 20 pts below district

▲ 11 pts above state median · even with county median

Grade 463%

School 63% · District 72% · ▼ 10 pts below district

▲ 25 pts above state median · ▲ 6 pts above county median

Grade 546%

School 46% · District 65% · ▼ 19 pts below district

▲ 15 pts above state median · ▲ 4 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 359%

School 59% · District 70% · ▼ 10 pts below district

▲ 19 pts above state median · ▲ 1 pts above county median

Grade 467%

School 67% · District 71% · ▼ 4 pts below district

▲ 25 pts above state median · ▲ 11 pts above county median

Grade 567%

School 67% · District 76% · ▼ 9 pts below district

▲ 21 pts above state median · ▲ 11 pts above county median

Science

Grade 546%

School 46% · District 58% · ▼ 12 pts below district

▲ 18 pts above state median · even with county median

This schoolRescue Union Elementary, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 3Lower-income50%Higher-income67%17 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income44%Higher-income78%34 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income53%Higher-income76%23 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income50%Higher-income58%8 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income38%Higher-income75%38 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income32%Higher-income55%24 pp gap