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El Dorado County
El Dorado County has 15 school districts, 13 charter schools and 1 county office of education. In 2022 the Kitchen Infrastructure and Training (KIT) Fund sent $3.1 million to agencies in the county, and in 2025 another $540,714.
Every agency's KIT money
The California Department of Education (CDE) gave the 2022 round by formula to agencies that sponsor the federal school meal programs. The 2025 round was a competitive grant. Hands-on food education in school gardens is an allowed use of the 2026 money.
$3.1 million
2022 allocations
$540,714
2025 grants
| Agency | Type | 2022 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black Oak Mine Unified | School district | $224,498 | $43,776 | |
| Buckeye Union Elementary | School district | $592,480 | $150,158 | |
| Camino Union Elementary | School district | None listed | None listed | |
| El Dorado Union High | School district | $314,283 | None listed | Priority |
| Gold Oak Union Elementary | School district | $145,171 | $9,978 | |
| Gold Trail Union Elementary | School district | $135,020 | $12,808 | |
| Lake Tahoe Unified | School district | $414,997 | $137,061 | |
| Latrobe | School district | None listed | None listed | |
| Mother Lode Union Elementary | School district | $234,434 | None listed | Priority |
| Omo Ranch Elementary | School district | None listed | None listed | |
| Pioneer Union | School district | $116,663 | $10,302 | |
| Placerville Union Elementary | School district | $157,674 | $47,027 | |
| Pollock Pines Elementary | School district | $138,430 | None listed | Priority |
| Rescue Union Elementary | School district | $513,363 | $109,879 | |
| Silver Fork Elementary | School district | None listed | None listed | |
| American River Charter | Charter school | None listed | None listed | |
| Buckeye Union Mandarin Immersion Charter | Charter school | None listed | None listed | |
| California Montessori Project-Shingle Springs Campus | Charter school | None listed | None listed | |
| Camino Polytechnic | Charter school | None listed | None listed | |
| Charter Home Study Academy | Charter school | None listed | None listed | |
| Charter Montessori Valley View Campus | Charter school | None listed | None listed | |
| Clarksville Charter | Charter school | None listed | None listed | |
| Cottonwood | Charter school | None listed | None listed | |
| John Adams Academy - El Dorado Hills | Charter school | None listed | None listed | |
| Mountainside Middle College High | Charter school | None listed | None listed | |
| Pacific Crest Academy | Charter school | None listed | None listed | |
| Rising Sun Montessori | Charter school | None listed | None listed | |
| Rite of Passage | Charter school | None listed | None listed | |
| El Dorado County Office of Education | County office of education | $112,147 | $19,724 |
2022 amounts as of March 29, 2024; 2025 amounts as of March 11, 2026.
Priority: on CDE's 2022 allocations and not on its 2025 grant list. The 2026 law (Education Code 49507) gives these agencies first priority in 2026.
A charter school that reorganized since a round may be listed under an older charter number.
Gardens in El Dorado County
Of the 15 school districts here, Ten Strands found public evidence of a school garden in 9 and of garden-based education in 3.
From Ten Strands' statewide district dataset, as of September 29, 2026. Ten Strands looks for public evidence, so a missing item may mean the district has not said so publicly.
School garden data
The statewide findings, the method and the validation form.
Fix your district's data
Tell Ten Strands what your district has, so the next analysis counts it.
Ten Strands' district dataset
The Data Initiative for Environmental and Climate Action in California's TK-12 Schools: some ninety indicators for every district, free to download.
Coalition members near El Dorado County
Member organizations in the Sierra Nevada region, then the ones that work statewide. Not sure which one fits? Write to us at hello@caschoolgardens.org and we'll introduce you.
In the Sierra Nevada region
No member organizations are listed in the Sierra Nevada region yet.
Statewide
Does your organization work with schools here? Add it to the coalition.