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Golden Sierra Junior Senior High, Garden Valley, CA

CEP schoolGolden Sierra Junior Senior High is a public high school in Garden Valley, part of Black Oak Mine Unified. It enrolled 436 students in 2024-25, with 15.6 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
436
Teachers (FTE)
28.0
Students per teacher
15.6
Grades
7 to 12

This school's ratio is 5.0 lower than the district figure of 20.6. The California average across schools is 21.9. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school15.6
District20.6
California21.9
United States15.3

School details

Address
5101 Garden Valley Rd., Garden Valley, CA 95633
Phone
(530)333-8330
District
Black Oak Mine Unified
County
El Dorado County
Level
High
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Virtual
No
Locale
Rural: Distant
NCES school ID
060524000495
Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Free lunch
162
Reduced-price lunch
25
Free or reduced-price lunch
18742.9% of enrollment.
Direct certification
114Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
Community Eligibility Provision
Yes (CEP school)

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

Related schools

Other high schools in Black Oak Mine Unified

We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.