Tioga High

Tioga High is a micro-enrollment 9-12 campus in Groveland, California, overseen by Big Oak Flat-Groveland Unified. The school hosts 49 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 94% leaner than the typical public school in California, which averages around 838 students.

Within Big Oak Flat-Groveland Unified, which oversees 3 schools and 268 students, Tioga High is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Tioga High reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (84%); the rest breaks down as 6% Hispanic, 4% Native American, 2% Black, 2% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Tuolumne County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 18.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 49% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Tioga High is in the bottom 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 50.3%; Tioga High posts 18.8%, -31.6 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, census data for Tuolumne County shows the typical household earns roughly $77,404 per year, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Tuolumne County's 30 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,724 students), Tioga High is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Tenaya Elementary, around 2.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Tioga High comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 41.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 9%: 45 students in 2018 compared to 49 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 64% to 84% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 13.2:1 in 2018 to 8.3:1 in 2025.

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