High · Alternative · Grades 6 to 12
Valley Atwater Community, Atwater, CA
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 122
- Teachers (FTE)
- 7.0
- Students per teacher
- 17.4
- Grades
- 6 to 12
This school's ratio is 2.7 higher than the district figure of 14.7. The California average across schools is 21.9. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.
School details
- Address
- 1800 Matthew Ave., Atwater, CA 95301
- Phone
- (209)381-4550
- County
- Merced County
- Level
- High
- Type
- Alternative
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- Suburb: Midsize
- NCES school ID
- 069102010961
School meals
- Free lunch
- 110
- Reduced-price lunch
- 5
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 11594.3% of enrollment.
- Direct certification
- 98Students 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 Merced County Office of Education
- Valley Los Banos Community 160 students
- Come Back Charter 128 students
High schools elsewhere in Atwater
- Atwater High Merced Union High
- Buhach Colony High Merced Union High
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.