Nevada Union High

Nevada Union High is a four-year high school of heavily attended scale in Grass Valley, California, one of the schools within Nevada Joint Union High, enrolling 1,561 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 86% above the state mean of about 838.

Nevada Union High is one of 5 schools operated by Nevada Joint Union High, a district that caters to 2,571 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Nevada Union High lists that the largest single group is White, at 71% of enrollment. The remainder reads as 19% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Nevada County as a whole is about 84% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 78 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 18.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 37% of students at Nevada Union High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Nevada Union High sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 57.5%; this one delivers 43.1%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Nevada County put median household income runs about $89,882, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Nevada County's 46 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,561 students), Nevada Union High is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: North Point Academy, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Nevada Union High. On composite proficiency, Nevada Union High comes 4th of 5 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 44.5%.

Nevada Union High operates from a town-based location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 1,546 students in 2018 compared to 1,561 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 79% to 71% over that span.

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