Sonora High

As a middle-of-the-pack 9-12 campus in Sonora, California, Sonora High instructs 880 students from grades 9 through 12, run under Sonora Union High.

Within Sonora Union High, which oversees 3 schools and 989 students, Sonora High is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Sonora High lists that the largest single group is White, at 62% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 23% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 2% Asian. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 81%.

In terms of school funding signals, Sonora High shows 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 23.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. An estimated 38% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is below Tuolumne County's rate of about 50%.

After controlling for student poverty, Sonora High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.7%, the actual is 46.8%, a residual of -9.9 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Tuolumne County put median household earnings sit near $77,404, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Tuolumne County runs 30 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,724 students), of which Sonora High is one.

Theodore Bird High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Sonora High. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Sonora High at 1st of 4; the average score across the group is 32.5%.

Sonora High operates from a small-town location.

Over the past 7-year window. Sonora High's enrollment has shrank 10% since 2018, when it stood at 979 (now 880). Over the same period, the White share decreased from 72% to 62%. Class-load math has fell: from 24.9:1 in 2018 to 23.0:1 in 2025.

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