Grass Valley Charter

As a mid-sized elementary-level community in Grass Valley, California, Grass Valley Charter caters to 546 students from grades K through 8, overseen by Grass Valley Elementary.

Grass Valley Charter is one of 4 schools operated by Grass Valley Elementary, a district that works with 1,613 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Grass Valley Charter shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (83%). Beyond that, the school logs 9% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.7:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Grass Valley Charter higher than the state norm the norm. About 33% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Nevada County runs at roughly 43%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Grass Valley Charter performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 59.8%, the actual is 46.4%, a residual of -13.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Nevada County shows median household earnings sit near $89,882, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Nevada County's 46 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,561 students), Grass Valley Charter is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Silver Springs High (Continuation), around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Grass Valley Charter ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 42.1%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting. Grass Valley Charter operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Trend over the last 7 years. Grass Valley Charter's enrollment has ticked up 6% since 2018, when it stood at 516 (now 546). The White share of enrollment edged down from 87% to 83% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 25.8:1 in 2018 to 23.7:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Grass Valley Charter community share and discuss sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.