Portola Junior/Senior High

Set in Portola, California, Portola Junior/Senior High is a very small four-year high school, one of the schools within Plumas Unified. It instructs 256 students across grades 7 through 12. That puts it 69% smaller than the typical public school in California, which averages around 838 students.

Plumas Unified runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 1,685 students. Portola Junior/Senior High is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Portola Junior/Senior High reports that 57% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder consists of 34% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 84% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.2:1, putting Portola Junior/Senior High tighter than the state norm the norm. About 54% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Portola Junior/Senior High is in the bottom 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 47.4%; Portola Junior/Senior High posts 31.6%, -15.8 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, Plumas County reports that the typical household earns roughly $66,031 per year, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Portola Junior/Senior High is one of 15 public schools in Plumas County (combined enrollment of about 2,049 students).

Beckwourth (Jim) High (Continuation) is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Portola Junior/Senior High. On composite proficiency, Portola Junior/Senior High comes 4th of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 33.1%.

Portola Junior/Senior High operates from a small-town location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Portola Junior/Senior High has remained close to its prior level, going from 262 students in 2018 to 256 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 64% to 57%. Class-load math has fell: from 19.8:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 in 2025.

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