Hoaglin-Zenia Elementary

Hoaglin-Zenia Elementary is a micro-enrollment elementary campus in Zenia, California, one of the schools within Southern Trinity Joint Unified. The school educates 10 students in grades K through 8. That puts it 98% below the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Southern Trinity Joint Unified runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 71 students. Hoaglin-Zenia Elementary is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Hoaglin-Zenia Elementary reports that the largest single group is White, at 70% of enrollment. Other groups include 30% multiracial. By comparison, Trinity County as a whole is about 78% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 1 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 60% of students at Hoaglin-Zenia Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Across the wider county, census data for Trinity County shows the typical household earns roughly $53,002 per year, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Hoaglin-Zenia Elementary is one of 19 public schools in Trinity County (combined enrollment of about 1,461 students).

Casterlin Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 9.0 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 10 students in 2018 compared to 10 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 80% to 70%.

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