Yuba Gardens Intermediate

Yuba Gardens Intermediate is one of the average-sized junior highs in Olivehurst, California, run under Marysville Joint Unified, with 761 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 8.

Marysville Joint Unified comprises 23 schools with combined enrollment of 10,418 students; Yuba Gardens Intermediate is among them.

In terms of who attends, Yuba Gardens Intermediate lists that 57% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 19% White, 14% Asian, 5% multiracial, 3% Black. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 31%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 20.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 78% of students at Yuba Gardens Intermediate qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Yuba County's rate of about 68%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Yuba Gardens Intermediate tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 33.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 19.9%.

Around the school, census data for Yuba County shows the typical household earns roughly $76,373 per year, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Yuba County's 41 public schools (combined enrollment of about 16,045 students), Yuba Gardens Intermediate is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is South Lindhurst Continuation High, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Yuba Gardens Intermediate ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 26.0%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Yuba Gardens Intermediate has declined 5%, going from 805 students in 2018 to 761 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 28% to 19%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 22.5:1 in 2018 to 20.8:1 in 2025.

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