Potter Valley Junior High

Potter Valley Junior High, a very small junior high in Potter Valley, California, run under Potter Valley Community Unified, enrolls 39 students, covering grades 7 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 659 students per school, that is 94% below typical.

Potter Valley Community Unified comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 262 students; Potter Valley Junior High is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Potter Valley Junior High shows that 56% of the student body identifies as White; the rest looks like 31% Hispanic, 10% Native American, 3% Black.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 3 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. Roughly 67% of students at Potter Valley Junior High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Potter Valley Junior High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.8%, the actual is 28.2%, a residual of -11.6 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Mendocino County put the typical household earns roughly $68,092 per year, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Mendocino County runs 66 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,738 students), of which Potter Valley Junior High is one.

Nearest neighbor: Centerville High (Continuation), around 0.0 miles off. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Potter Valley Junior High comes 2nd of 5 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 24.7%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Potter Valley Junior High has ticked up 18%, going from 33 students in 2018 to 39 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment edged down from 45% to 31% over that span.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.