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Schools
Fifteen school districts serve over 28,000
students in El Dorado County. The Lake Tahoe and Georgetown Divide
regions each have a K-12 district. On the Western Slope there are
twelve small to moderate sized K-8 districts which feed into the
El Dorado Union High School District. The new Union Mine High School
has completed construction with funding coming from the passage
of a local bond measure in June 1997 and opened its doors in August
1999. It is considered a technological school with an emphasis on
computer education.
Many families move to El Dorado County because
there are healthy influences for youth in a semi-rural area with
good quality schools. On the nationally normed CTBS group achievement
test administered in 1996, students in the County had higher total
scores than the national average for all grade levels tested.
Teachers are also attracted to El Dorado
County schools where there is an openness to innovation to meet
the needs of students and families. Examples of innovation are found
in video technology classes where students produce news shows which
can be shown in other classes, participation in “Academic Decathlon”
competitions, and connectivity of schools to the Internet throughout
the County.
Local school offerings provide a selection
of more than forty business related courses, including accounting,
banking and finance, business machines, business English, computer
applications, data processing, merchandising, restaurant management,
and word processing.
For further information
visit the El Dorado County Office of Education website: www.edcoe.k12.ca.us
Folsom Lake College’s El Dorado
Center – part of the Los Rios Community College District –
offers a wide variety of general education transferable and other
courses. In addition, the El Dorado Center (located off Green Valley
Road in Placerville near the El Dorado County Office of Education)
provides student resources, including counseling, financial aid,
tutoring, and a library/computer lab.
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