Elementary · Regular · Grades K to 7

Surprise Valley Elementary, Cedarville, CA

Surprise Valley Elementary is a public elementary school in Cedarville, part of Surprise Valley Joint Unified. It enrolled 51 students in 2024-25, with 12.8 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students: 51
Teachers (FTE): 4.0
Students per teacher: 12.8
Grades: K to 7

This school's ratio is about the same as the district figure of 12.7. The California average across schools is 21.9. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school12.8

District12.7

California21.9

United States15.3

School details

Address: 470 Lincoln St., Cedarville, CA 96104
Phone: (530)279-6141
District: Surprise Valley Joint Unified
County: Modoc County
Level: Elementary
Type: Regular
Status: Open
Charter: No
Virtual: No
Locale: Rural: Remote
NCES school ID: 063852006469

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School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.

Free lunch: 30
Reduced-price lunch: 5
Free or reduced-price lunch: 3568.6% of enrollment.
Direct certification: 26Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.

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.

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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.