Gold Trail

Public 4-8

 889 Cold Springs Rd.
       Placerville, CA  95667-9312


(530) 626-2595

District: Gold Trail Union Elementary

SchoolDigger Rank:
902nd of 2,777 California Middle Schools

Per Pupil Expenditures:  $9,112 Help


Students who attend Gold Trail usually attend:

High:    El Dorado High

Feeder schools for Gold Trail:

Elementary:    Sutters Mill

Student/teacher ratio:  18.1 Help
Number of students:  278

Racial breakdown:

White:
79.1%
Hispanic:
15.5%
American Indian:
2.2%
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Free/discounted lunch recipients:  29.5% Help


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Compare Details Gold Trail ranks better than 60.3% of elementary schools in California. (See more...)
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Compare Details In 2024 the calculated Average Standard Score was 54.24. (See more...)
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Compare Details Gold Trail ranks better than 67.5% of middle schools in California. (See more...)
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Compare Details In 2024 the calculated Average Standard Score was 59.19. (See more...)
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Compare Details Racial makeup is: White (79.1%), Hispanic (15.5%), American Indian (2.2%). (See more...)
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Compare Details The student/teacher ratio at Gold Trail is 18.1. (See more...)
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Compare Details The average total spent per student at Gold Trail is $9,112.
Schooldigger 2024 Rankings:

Gold Trail:

SchoolDigger ranks Gold Trail 2326th of 5862 California public elementary schools. (See Gold Trail in the ranking list.)

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SchoolDigger ranks Gold Trail 902nd of 2777 California public middle schools. (See Gold Trail in the ranking list.)

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Gold Trail Union Elementary:

SchoolDigger ranks Gold Trail Union Elementary 511th of 1568 California school districts. (See district ranking list.)


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Rank History for Gold Trail

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Rank History for all elementary school students at Gold Trail

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Elementary Schools CA State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2004 69.17 1331st 4809 72.3%
2005 80.79 895th 4822 81.4%
2006 82.75 839th 4818 82.6%
2007 76.36 1121st 5113 78.1%
2008 72.39 1310th 5113 74.4%
2009 81.99 890th 5193 82.9%
2010 81.84 902nd 5314 83.0%
2011 74.87 1264th 5377 76.5%
2012 61.84 1946th 5390 63.9%
2013 61.06 2059th 5530 62.8%
2015 71.77 1428th 5611 74.5%
2016 68.70 1585th 5614 71.8%
2017 57.52 2152nd 5692 62.2%
2018 52.82 2396th 5662 57.7%
2019 67.86 1701st 5789 70.6%
2021 68.41 408th 1417 71.2%
2022 57.79 2133rd 5883 63.7%
2023 48.96 2585th 5874 56.0%
2024 54.24 2326th 5862 60.3%
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Rank History for elementary school Low Socio Economic Status students at Gold Trail

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Elementary Schools CA State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 37.51 3201st 5084 37.0%
2019 52.47 2240th 5173 56.7%
2021 57.82 380th 1110 65.8%
2022 46.00 2533rd 5264 51.9%
2023 28.85 3990th 5374 25.8%
2024 38.21 3270th 5511 40.7%
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Rank History for elementary school Female students at Gold Trail

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Elementary Schools CA State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 52.07 2372nd 5413 56.2%
2019 71.36 1436th 5492 73.9%
2021 64.36 393rd 1267 69.0%
2022 59.20 1965th 5635 65.1%
2023 36.43 3271st 5617 41.8%
2024 41.20 2965th 5605 47.1%
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Rank History for elementary school Disabled students at Gold Trail

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Elementary Schools CA State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 50.95 751st 2128 64.7%
2019 62.19 675th 2585 73.9%
2022 44.21 953rd 2227 57.2%
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Rank History for elementary school Male students at Gold Trail

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Elementary Schools CA State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 52.47 2314th 5431 57.4%
2019 59.47 1979th 5510 64.1%
2021 67.95 366th 1272 71.2%
2022 52.57 2311th 5663 59.2%
2023 63.00 1810th 5650 68.0%
2024 68.15 1597th 5636 71.7%
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Rank History for elementary school Hispanic students at Gold Trail

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Elementary Schools CA State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2023 30.33 3675th 5098 27.9%
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Rank History for elementary school White students at Gold Trail

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Elementary Schools CA State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 26.89 2154th 2737 21.3%
2019 41.67 1801st 2834 36.5%
2022 34.85 1878th 2726 31.1%
2023 28.43 2022nd 2662 24.0%
2024 32.33 1890th 2647 28.6%
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Data source: test scores: California Department of Education, rankings: SchoolDigger.com

Rank History for Gold Trail

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Rank History for all middle school students at Gold Trail

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools CA State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2004 80.61 281st 1769 84.1%
2005 91.03 104th 1777 94.1%
2006 86.40 177th 1804 90.2%
2007 82.30 261st 1999 86.9%
2008 74.09 405th 2005 79.8%
2009 86.70 152nd 2063 92.6%
2010 79.90 303rd 2179 86.1%
2011 79.18 313th 2236 86.0%
2012 80.10 299th 2259 86.8%
2013 75.35 447th 2379 81.2%
2015 85.17 326th 2477 86.8%
2016 79.20 462nd 2497 81.5%
2017 58.53 905th 2508 63.9%
2018 56.99 919th 2480 62.9%
2019 64.42 808th 2715 70.2%
2021 70.87 211th 894 76.4%
2022 72.10 638th 2740 76.7%
2023 71.11 662nd 2802 76.4%
2024 59.19 902nd 2777 67.5%
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Rank History for middle school Low Socio Economic Status students at Gold Trail

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools CA State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 41.22 1222nd 2230 45.2%
2019 43.40 1233rd 2369 48.0%
2021 43.56 378th 721 47.6%
2022 38.08 1403rd 2458 42.9%
2023 51.30 984th 2549 61.4%
2024 61.74 713th 2575 72.3%
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Rank History for middle school Female students at Gold Trail

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools CA State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 62.42 732nd 2262 67.6%
2019 67.52 675th 2380 71.6%
2021 69.94 187th 738 74.7%
2022 75.25 526th 2509 79.0%
2023 69.71 626th 2547 75.4%
2024 65.10 721st 2546 71.7%
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Rank History for middle school Disabled students at Gold Trail

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools CA State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 44.08 599th 1369 56.2%
2019 45.43 635th 1491 57.4%
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Rank History for middle school Male students at Gold Trail

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools CA State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 48.72 1029th 2273 54.7%
2019 55.93 903rd 2407 62.5%
2021 69.59 193rd 763 74.7%
2022 65.22 714th 2527 71.7%
2023 68.40 646th 2558 74.7%
2024 46.39 1176th 2547 53.8%
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Rank History for middle school Hispanic students at Gold Trail

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools CA State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2024 78.12 361st 2383 84.9%
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Rank History for middle school White students at Gold Trail

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools CA State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 36.01 980th 1496 34.5%
2019 45.16 863rd 1602 46.1%
2022 54.84 680th 1555 56.3%
2023 54.88 662nd 1552 57.3%
2024 35.04 976th 1535 36.4%
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Data source: test scores: California Department of Education, rankings: SchoolDigger.com

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Enrollment information for Gold Trail

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Year White African American Asian Hispanic American Indian Pacific Islander Two or More Races Not Specified Total
1988 549 4 1 19 2 n/a n/a 0 575
1989 564 3 5 22 4 n/a n/a 0 598
1990 602 3 6 18 7 n/a n/a 0 636
1991 634 6 5 17 11 n/a n/a 0 673
1992 559 6 5 27 12 n/a n/a 0 609
1993 357 4 2 13 11 n/a n/a 0 387
1994 360 4 2 13 12 n/a n/a 0 391
1995 294 2 1 17 9 n/a n/a 0 323
1996 294 2 1 17 9 n/a n/a 0 323
1997 402 3 5 25 11 n/a n/a 0 446
1998 407 5 6 21 11 n/a n/a 0 450
1999 390 3 5 21 9 n/a n/a 0 428
2000 380 2 8 22 12 n/a n/a 0 424
2001 394 4 7 22 8 n/a n/a 0 435
2002 383 2 7 28 9 n/a n/a 0 429
2003 383 2 7 28 9 n/a n/a 0 429
2004 351 1 6 29 10 n/a n/a 0 397
2005 321 2 4 25 7 n/a n/a 0 359
2006 310 2 8 21 6 n/a n/a 9 356
2007 299 3 8 24 6 n/a n/a 4 344
2008 289 4 8 24 7 n/a n/a 0 332
2009 278 5 4 20 5 2 19 0 333
2010 268 4 6 30 10 1 1 0 320
2011 264 5 7 26 3 1 1 0 307
2012 254 1 5 18 2 3 4 0 287
2013 276 2 6 19 1 3 5 0 312
2014 278 3 6 28 1 2 5 0 323
2015 305 2 4 23 3 3 15 0 355
2016 290 3 3 34 3 2 16 0 351
2017 324 4 3 43 4 1 17 0 396
2018 341 3 4 51 6 1 14 0 420
2019 324 1 2 41 6 3 12 0 389
2020 298 1 2 50 3 4 8 0 366
2021 281 2 1 40 2 3 9 0 338
2022 242 2 1 46 4 3 7 0 305
2023 220 1 1 43 6 1 6 0 278

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Dept of Education.

About Enrollment/Ethnicity

For more information about how the Department of Education defines ethnicity, see Defining Race and Ethnicity Data, National Center for Education Statistics

Students eligible for free or discounted lunch at Gold Trail

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Year # Students Full-time Teachers Student/Teacher ratio % Free/Discounted Lunch
1988 575 23.5 24.4 n/a
1989 598 25.3 23.6 n/a
1990 636 27.8 22.8 n/a
1991 673 29.0 23.2 n/a
1992 609 29.5 20.6 15.4
1993 387 18.0 21.5 15.2
1994 391 17.6 22.2 20.5
1995 323 13.3 24.3 14.9
1996 323 13.3 24.3 14.9
1997 446 18.3 24.4 14.1
1998 450 18.9 23.8 19.8
1999 428 19.9 21.5 14.5
2000 424 18.8 22.6 16.3
2001 435 19.8 22.0 13.8
2002 429 18.0 23.8 14
2003 429 18.0 23.8 14
2004 397 17.3 22.9 16.4
2005 359 15.7 22.9 18.9
2006 356 15.3 23.3 12.1
2007 344 16.0 21.5 20
2008 332 16.7 19.9 18.4
2009 333 15.7 19.4 18
2010 320 14.6 21.9 20.6
2011 307 n/a n/a 24.4
2012 287 12.4 23.1 25.1
2013 312 14.2 21.9 23.1
2014 323 14.3 22.5 27.6
2015 355 16.0 22.1 32.7
2016 351 17.0 20.6 30.5
2017 396 18.1 21.8 27.3
2018 420 18.2 23.0 30
2019 389 19.1 20.3 25.2
2020 366 n/a n/a 28.1
2021 338 16.3 20.7 24.6
2022 305 15.5 19.6 20.7
2023 278 15.3 18.1 29.5

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Dept of Education.

About Students eligible for discounted/free lunch:

The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) provides low-cost or free meals to students in U.S. public and nonprofit private schools based on household income. Those with incomes below 130% of the poverty line receive free lunch, while those between 130% and 185% qualify for reduced-price lunch. The percentage of students receiving free or reduced-price lunch serves as a marker for poverty, as it reflects the socioeconomic status of families in a given school or district. A higher FRPL rate typically indicates a higher concentration of low-income families, suggesting that the school or district may face additional challenges in providing adequate resources and support for student success.

Student/Teacher Ratio Gold Trail

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Year # Students Full-time Teachers Student/Teacher ratio % Free/Discounted Lunch
1988 575 23.5 24.4 n/a
1989 598 25.3 23.6 n/a
1990 636 27.8 22.8 n/a
1991 673 29.0 23.2 n/a
1992 609 29.5 20.6 15.4
1993 387 18.0 21.5 15.2
1994 391 17.6 22.2 20.5
1995 323 13.3 24.3 14.9
1996 323 13.3 24.3 14.9
1997 446 18.3 24.4 14.1
1998 450 18.9 23.8 19.8
1999 428 19.9 21.5 14.5
2000 424 18.8 22.6 16.3
2001 435 19.8 22.0 13.8
2002 429 18.0 23.8 14
2003 429 18.0 23.8 14
2004 397 17.3 22.9 16.4
2005 359 15.7 22.9 18.9
2006 356 15.3 23.3 12.1
2007 344 16.0 21.5 20
2008 332 16.7 19.9 18.4
2009 333 15.7 19.4 18
2010 320 14.6 21.9 20.6
2011 307 n/a n/a 24.4
2012 287 12.4 23.1 25.1
2013 312 14.2 21.9 23.1
2014 323 14.3 22.5 27.6
2015 355 16.0 22.1 32.7
2016 351 17.0 20.6 30.5
2017 396 18.1 21.8 27.3
2018 420 18.2 23.0 30
2019 389 19.1 20.3 25.2
2020 366 n/a n/a 28.1
2021 338 16.3 20.7 24.6
2022 305 15.5 19.6 20.7
2023 278 15.3 18.1 29.5

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Dept of Education.

About Student-Teacher Ratio

Student/teacher ratio is calculated by dividing the total number of students by the total number of full-time equivalent teachers. Please note that a smaller student/teacher ratio does not necessarily translate to smaller class size. In some instances, schools hire teachers part time, and some teachers are hired for specialized instruction with very small class sizes. These and other factors contribute to the student/teacher ratio. Note: For private schools, Student/teacher ratio may not include Pre-Kindergarten.
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Per Pupil Expenditures for Gold Trail

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YearTotal Expenditures Per Pupil
2018 $9,112

Data source: California Department of Education
Pre and Post Pandemic Data

Impact of COVID-19 on Gold Trail

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Rankings

Rank
Pre-pandemic (2018-2019)
Rank
Post pandemic (2022-2023)
Change (%)
Ranks 1701st of 5789 Elementary schoolsRanks 2585th of 5874 Elementary schools
 14.6%
Ranks 808th of 2715 Middle schoolsRanks 662nd of 2802 Middle schools
 6.1%

Test Scores

% proficient
Pre-pandemic (2018-2019)
% proficient
Post pandemic (2022-2023)
Change (%)
4th Grade English Language Arts/Literacy (Gold Trail)56.764
 7.3%
   4th Grade English Language Arts/Literacy (Gold Trail Union Elementary)56.764
 7.3%
   4th Grade English Language Arts/Literacy (California)49.543.7
 5.7%
4th Grade Mathematics (Gold Trail)64.248
 16.2%
   4th Grade Mathematics (Gold Trail Union Elementary)64.248
 16.2%
   4th Grade Mathematics (California)44.940.8
 4.1%
5th Grade English Language Arts/Literacy (Gold Trail)59.739.3
 20.4%
   5th Grade English Language Arts/Literacy (Gold Trail Union Elementary)59.739.3
 20.4%
   5th Grade English Language Arts/Literacy (California)51.746.7
 5%
5th Grade Mathematics (Gold Trail)25.425
 0.4%
   5th Grade Mathematics (Gold Trail Union Elementary)25.425
 0.4%
   5th Grade Mathematics (California)3833.4
 4.6%
5th Grade Science (Gold Trail)42.423.2
 19.2%
   5th Grade Science (Gold Trail Union Elementary)42.423.2
 19.2%
   5th Grade Science (California)31.731.9
 0.1%
6th Grade English Language Arts/Literacy (Gold Trail)54.232.6
 21.6%
   6th Grade English Language Arts/Literacy (Gold Trail Union Elementary)54.232.6
 21.6%
   6th Grade English Language Arts/Literacy (California)48.544.2
 4.3%
6th Grade Mathematics (Gold Trail)55.434.8
 20.6%
   6th Grade Mathematics (Gold Trail Union Elementary)55.434.8
 20.6%
   6th Grade Mathematics (California)38.533.2
 5.3%
7th Grade English Language Arts/Literacy (Gold Trail)45.448.2
 2.9%
   7th Grade English Language Arts/Literacy (Gold Trail Union Elementary)45.448.2
 2.9%
   7th Grade English Language Arts/Literacy (California)51.447.4
 3.9%
7th Grade Mathematics (Gold Trail)33.744.6
 10.9%
   7th Grade Mathematics (Gold Trail Union Elementary)33.744.6
 10.9%
   7th Grade Mathematics (California)37.933.2
 4.7%
8th Grade English Language Arts/Literacy (Gold Trail)5065
 15%
   8th Grade English Language Arts/Literacy (Gold Trail Union Elementary)5065
 15%
   8th Grade English Language Arts/Literacy (California)49.445.7
 3.8%
8th Grade Mathematics (Gold Trail)36.150.8
 14.8%
   8th Grade Mathematics (Gold Trail Union Elementary)36.150.8
 14.8%
   8th Grade Mathematics (California)36.629.9
 6.7%
8th Grade Science (Gold Trail)51.250.8
 0.3%
   8th Grade Science (Gold Trail Union Elementary)51.250.8
 0.3%
   8th Grade Science (California)30.828.8
 2.1%

Student Body

Number of students
Pre-pandemic (2018-2019)
Number of students
Post pandemic (2022-2023)
Change (%)
Total Students389278
 28.5%
African American11
American Indian66
Asian21
 50%
Hispanic4143
 4.9%
Pacific Islander31
 66.7%
White324220
 32.1%
Two or More Races126
 50%
% Free/Discounted Lunch Recipients25.2%29.5%
 4.3%


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In the 2022-23 school year, 278 students attended Gold Trail.

Students at Gold Trail are 79% White, 15% Hispanic, 2% American Indian, 2% Two or more races.

Gold Trail ranks 902nd of 2777 California middle schools. SchoolDigger rates this school 3 stars out of 5.

Students who attend Gold Trail usually go on to attend El Dorado High


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