Tahoe Truckee High

Tahoe Truckee High is a middle-of-the-pack secondary school in Truckee, California, overseen by Tahoe-Truckee Unified. The school teaches 907 students in grades 9 through 12.

Across the 11 schools in Tahoe-Truckee Unified (3,959 students total), Tahoe Truckee High accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Tahoe Truckee High logs that 61% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder is composed of 33% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Nevada County as a whole is about 84% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.2:1, putting Tahoe Truckee High higher than the state norm the norm. About 28% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Nevada County (around 43%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Tahoe Truckee High sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 62.8%; this one delivers 50.7%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Nevada County) records that median household earnings sit near $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. In all, Nevada County runs 46 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,561 students), of which Tahoe Truckee High is one.

Nearest neighbor: Truckee Elementary, around 0.2 miles off. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Tahoe Truckee High comes 4th of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 56.1%.

Tahoe Truckee High operates from a small-town location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 25%: 728 students in 2018 compared to 907 in 2025.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.