Regular local school district · Inyo County
Death Valley Unified, CA: schools, enrollment and spending
Death Valley Unified runs 4 public schools with 21 students in grades K to 12. Its ratio of 7.0 students per teacher is 14.9 lower than the California figure of 21.9.
At a glance
- Schools
- 4
- Students
- 21
- Teachers (FTE)
- 3
- Students per teacher
- 7.0
- CA: 21.9 · US: 15.3
- Address
- Old State Highway 127, Shoshone, CA 92384
- Phone
- (760)852-4303
- County
- Inyo County
- Locale
- Rural: Remote
- Grades offered
- K to 12
- Agency type
- Regular local school district
- NCES district ID
- 0610680
- State district ID
- CA-1463271
- Total staff (FTE)
- 11
- School counselors (FTE)
- 0.0
- School administrators (FTE)
- 0.0
Students per teacher compared
This district7.0
California21.9
United States15.3
2020 finance data
From the F-33 School District Finance Survey for fiscal year 2020, in nominal dollars. Enrollment used for per-pupil figures is the finance survey count (20), which can differ from 2024-25 enrollment.
- Total revenue
- $1.7 million
- Federal revenue
- $183,000
- State revenue
- $409,000
- Local revenue
- $1.1 million
- Total spending
- $1.3 million
- Spending per pupil
- $63,200
- Salaries
- $645,00051.0% of total spending.
- Long-term debt (end of year)
- $0
Where revenue came from
- Federal: 10.7%
- State: 24.0%
- Local: 65.3%
California overall
- Federal: 13.4%
- State: 51.6%
- Local: 35.0%
Spending per pupil compared
This district$63,200
California$17,799
United States$16,826
Schools in Death Valley Unified
By level: 2 high, 2 elementary. A CEP school serves free meals to all students.
| Death Valley High Academy | High | 7 to 12 | 4 | 4.0 |
| Shoshone Elementary | Elementary | K to 6 | 17 | 17.0 |
| Shoshone High (Continuation) | High | 9 to 12 | 0 | |
| Tecopa-Francis Elementary | Elementary | K to 6 | 0 |
Nearby and related
Other districts in Inyo County
- Bishop Unified 1,910 students
- Lone Pine Unified 283 students
- Big Pine Unified 151 students
- Owens Valley Unified 99 students
- Round Valley Joint Elementary School District 68 students
- Inyo County Office of Education 7 students
- Inyo County Career Technical Education
More in California
Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Finance figures are 2020 finance data in nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.