Tenaya Elementary

Tenaya Elementary operates as a low-enrollment elementary campus in Groveland, California, operated by Big Oak Flat-Groveland Unified. Current enrollment sits at 188 students spanning grades K through 8. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Tenaya Elementary sits 60% below that benchmark.

Big Oak Flat-Groveland Unified runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 268 students. Tenaya Elementary is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Tenaya Elementary reports that White students make up the majority at 64%. Other groups include 27% Hispanic, 3% Native American, 3% Black, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 81% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Tenaya Elementary logs 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 54% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Tenaya Elementary sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 47.2%; actual is 28.6%, a gap of -18.6 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Tuolumne County) logs that median household earnings sit near $77,404, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Tuolumne County's 30 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,724 students), Tenaya Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Tioga High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.0 miles from this campus. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Tenaya Elementary comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 40.0%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Tenaya Elementary's enrollment has fell 5% since 2018, when it stood at 197 (now 188). White enrollment moved from 80% to 64% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 today.

On this page, members of the Tenaya Elementary community share and discuss enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.