Sierra High

Sierra High is a high school of close-knit scale in Tollhouse, California, run under Sierra Unified, educateing 367 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 56% smaller than the state mean of about 838.

Sierra Unified comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 1,251 students; Sierra High is among them.

In terms of who attends, Sierra High shows that the largest single group is White, at 59% of enrollment; the rest breaks down as 19% Hispanic, 13% Native American, 7% multiracial. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 36%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. An estimated 35% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Fresno County (around 75%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Sierra High tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 58.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 45.9%.

In the broader community, Fresno County reports that the typical household earns roughly $74,201 per year, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. In all, Fresno County runs 368 public schools (combined enrollment of about 206,072 students), of which Sierra High is one.

Sierra Junior High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Sierra High. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Sierra High ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 33.4%.

Sierra High operates from a rural location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Sierra High's enrollment has shrank 10% since 2018, when it stood at 407 (now 367). White enrollment moved from 71% to 59% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 20.7:1 in 2018 to 16.9:1 in 2025.

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