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If you had an hour of school board time for Golden Sierra Junior Senior High, what would you bring up?
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Enrollment
436
High
DISTRICT 223 · STATE 838
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BLACK OAK MINE UNIFIED·NCES 060524000495
Golden Sierra Junior Senior High
5101 Garden Valley Rd., Garden Valley, CA 95633 · (530) 333-8330 · El Dorado County
GRADES 07–12HIGH42-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL436 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 18% of California public high schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C+Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public high schools
Student : Teacher
15.5:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.4:1 · STATE 18.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
43%
187 students
DISTRICT 48% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 7 | 64 | 15% |
| Grade 8 | 74 | 17% |
| Grade 9 | 73 | 17% |
| Grade 10 | 77 | 18% |
| Grade 11 | 66 | 15% |
| Grade 12 | 82 | 19% |
Student demographics
41%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 43% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Based on grade levels within Black Oak Mine Unified. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
45.2%
CA avg 49.1% . +19.2pp since 2014
Math
23.1%
CA avg 37.7% . -5.9pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 45 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 23 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 19 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 6 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 12.4% | 32.8% | 28.0% | 26.9% |
| Math | 9.1% | 14.0% | 28.0% | 48.9% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 45.2% | 23.1% |
| 2023-24 | 43.2% | 27.2% |
| 2022-23 | 34.1% | 29.7% |
| 2021-22 | 38.2% | 29.9% |
| 2020-21 | 37.6% | 17.1% |
| 2018-19 | 43.0% | 26.3% |
| 2017-18 | 36.6% | 29.3% |
| 2016-17 | 42.6% | 29.6% |
| 2015-16 | 41.0% | 28.0% |
| 2014-15 | 26.0% | 29.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of CA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
34.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
54.4%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-19.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 35% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 54% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Golden Sierra Junior Senior High
Golden Sierra Junior Senior High's state test result (34.7% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Golden Sierra Junior Senior High this school | 436 | 42.9% | 34.7% |
| Quincy Junior/Senior High Quincy | 310 | 41.3% | 26.7% |
| Paradise Senior High Paradise | 495 | 49.9% | 31.3% |
| Summerville High Tuolumne | 508 | 45.5% | 48.9% |
| Bret Harte Union High Angels Camp | 559 | 41.5% | 39.9% |
| Durham High Durham | 320 | 38.8% | 44.2% |
Matched among California high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Golden Sierra Junior Senior High ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In California | In El Dorado County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 34.7% | #672 of 1,052 | #6 of 6 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 23.1% | #589 of 1,056 ▼ 165 | #6 of 6 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 45.2% | #800 of 1,056 ▲ 12 | #5 of 6 ▲ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +0.1pp | #654 of 1,044 | #4 of 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 436 | #1,079 of 2,093 | #6 of 9 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.5:1 | #127 of 1,352 | #1 of 6 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 41.1% | #821 of 1,351 | #6 of 6 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 42.9% | #1,248 of 1,575 | #3 of 7 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -13.5% | #336 of 802 | N/A |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
436
-34 (-7%) vs 2020
-11% since 1990-91, when it was 491
Student : Teacher
15.5:1
was 20.4:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 436 | 28.1 | 15.5:1 | 43% (187) |
| 2023-24 | 475 | 26.9 | 17.7:1 | 41% (194) |
| 2022-23 | 488 | 26.6 | 18.4:1 | 39% (191) |
| 2020-21 | 470 | 23 | 20.4:1 | 38% (177) |
| 2017-18 | 504 | 25.3 | 19.9:1 | 44% (224) |
| 2015-16 | 519 | 24 | 21.6:1 | 44% (226) |
| 2010-11 | 523 | N/A | N/A | 27% (141) |
| 2000-01 | 593 | 30 | 19.8:1 | 17% (102) |
| 1990-91 | 491 | 23 | 21.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Golden Sierra Junior Senior High.
Since 2017-18: students down 13% (504 to 436); teachers up 11% (25.3 to 28.1).
About Golden Sierra Junior Senior High
Golden Sierra Junior Senior High is a public high school in Garden Valley, California. It had 436 students in 2024-25, spanning grades 7 through 12. By comparison, high schools in California enroll about 838 students on average.
Golden Sierra Junior Senior High is one of the 6 schools that make up Black Oak Mine Unified (1,235 students in total).
More than half of the students at Golden Sierra Junior Senior High are White (75%). The remaining shares are 15% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, and 2% Native American. That is in line with El Dorado County, where about 78% of residents are White. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Golden Sierra Junior Senior High scores 41%.
Teacher count: 28.1 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 15.5:1. The gap from the 18.2:1 average for high schools in California is 2.7 students per teacher. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 43%. Among public schools in El Dorado County, the average eligibility rate is 32%.
On the allk12 Grade, Golden Sierra Junior Senior High lands at C-, ahead of 18% of California public high schools.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate across its state test results with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. Golden Sierra Junior Senior High posts 34.7% against a 54.4% prediction, a bottom-10% result in California.
El Dorado County is the school's county. There, median household income comes to about $108,845, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 40%, and roughly 5% of residents are in poverty. There are 69 public schools in the county, enrolling about 34,706, Golden Sierra Junior Senior High among them.
Georgetown Elementary is about 4.2 miles from Golden Sierra Junior Senior High, the shortest distance to any other public school. The five-mile area around Golden Sierra Junior Senior High holds 3 other public schools. The nearest schools with test data average 39.3%, higher than Golden Sierra Junior Senior High's 34.7%.
NCES lists the school's locale as Rural: Distant. That means it sits in rural territory some distance from an urban area.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment fell from 470 to 436, a 7% decrease. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 20.4:1 to 15.5:1.
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El Dorado County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
192,662
Census ACS
Median income
$108,845
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
40%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
69
34,706 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Black Oak Mine Unified
- Northside ElementaryElementary · 283 students
- American River CharterCombined · 263 students
- Georgetown ElementaryElementary · 229 students
- Otter Creek ElementaryElementary · 15 students
- Divide HighHigh · 9 students
Nearby schools
- Georgetown Elementary4.2 mi · 229
- Divide High4.5 mi · 9
- American River Charter4.6 mi · 263
- Gold Trail5.7 mi · 274
- Sutters Mill6.7 mi · 201
- Edwin Markham Middle8.1 mi · 431
Frequently asked questions
About Golden Sierra Junior Senior HighWhat is the total enrollment at Golden Sierra Junior Senior High?
Golden Sierra Junior Senior High enrolls approximately 436 students in grades 07-12.
Is Golden Sierra Junior Senior High an elementary, middle, or high school?
Golden Sierra Junior Senior High is a high school covering grades 07-12.
How many teachers does Golden Sierra Junior Senior High have?
Golden Sierra Junior Senior High employs 28 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.5:1.
What is the student diversity at Golden Sierra Junior Senior High?
Student demographics at Golden Sierra Junior Senior High are roughly 75% White, 15% Hispanic, 0% Black, 1% Asian, 6% Two or more.
What district is Golden Sierra Junior Senior High in?
Golden Sierra Junior Senior High is part of Black Oak Mine Unified.
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