Downieville Junior-Senior High

Located at 130 School St., in Downieville, California, Downieville Junior-Senior High is a rural-scale 9-12 campus that hosts 19 students (grades 7 through 12), operated by Sierra-Plumas Joint Unified. By comparison, California's public schools average about 838 students each, so Downieville Junior-Senior High sits 98% below that benchmark.

Within Sierra-Plumas Joint Unified, which oversees 5 schools and 414 students, Downieville Junior-Senior High is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Downieville Junior-Senior High reports that 58% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder breaks down as 32% Hispanic, 11% multiracial. By comparison, Sierra County as a whole is about 86% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Downieville Junior-Senior High has 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 3.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.2:1, putting Downieville Junior-Senior High tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 42% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Sierra County) reports that median household earnings sit near $63,355, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Sierra County's 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 414 students), Downieville Junior-Senior High is one campus in the mix.

Downieville Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Downieville Junior-Senior High has ticked down 10%, going from 21 students in 2018 to 19 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 81% to 58% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 9.9:1 in 2018 to 3.2:1 in 2025.

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