Tulelake High

Tulelake High, a micro-enrollment high school in Tulelake, California, run under Tulelake Basin Joint Unified, educates 209 students, covering grades 7 through 12. By comparison, California's public schools average about 838 students each, so Tulelake High sits 75% below that benchmark.

Within Tulelake Basin Joint Unified, which oversees 2 schools and 479 students, Tulelake High is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Tulelake High records that Hispanic students make up the majority at 78%; the rest reads as 17% White, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Siskiyou County as a whole is about 14% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Tulelake High has 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.6:1. The state averages around 18.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 82% of students at Tulelake High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Siskiyou County (around 65%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Tulelake High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 30.5%, the actual is 17.6%, a residual of -12.9 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Siskiyou County put the typical household earns roughly $59,095 per year, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Tulelake High is one of 52 public schools in Siskiyou County (combined enrollment of about 6,059 students).

The closest other public school is Tulelake Basin Elementary, roughly 0.4 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Tulelake High ranks 8th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 32.2%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Tulelake High has climbed 16%, going from 180 students in 2018 to 209 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 23% to 17% over that span. Class-load math has widened: from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.