Golden Valley Orchard

Set in Orangevale, California, Golden Valley Orchard is an intimate K-5 school, run under Golden Valley Orchard District. It serves 292 students across grades K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 37% leaner than the state mean of about 465.

Golden Valley Orchard District is the operating authority for Golden Valley Orchard, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

Demographically, Golden Valley Orchard logs that 68% of the student body identifies as White; the rest comes out to 17% Hispanic, 12% multiracial. By comparison, Sacramento County as a whole is about 45% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Golden Valley Orchard reports 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 21.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 32% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is south of Sacramento County's rate of about 63%.

In the area at large, census data for Sacramento County shows median household earnings sit near $92,175, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Sacramento County's 387 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,342 students), Golden Valley Orchard is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Louis Pasteur Fundamental Middle, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Golden Valley Orchard.

The school occupies a residential site. Golden Valley Orchard is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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