# Golden Sierra Junior Senior High

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060524000495`
- **School name**: Golden Sierra Junior Senior High
- **Location**: Garden Valley, CA 95633
- **Address**: 5101 Garden Valley Rd.
- **District**: Black Oak Mine Unified (LEAID `0605240`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 7–12
- **Coordinates**: 38.84966, -120.85628
- **Phone**: (530)333-8330
- **Website**: http://goldensierra.bomusd.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 436
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 28
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 15.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 42.9%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: CA Dashboard
- **Year**: 2024
- **Overall rating**: Orange
- **Indicators**:
  - elpi: 0
  - math: Orange
  - college_career: Orange
  - ela: Orange
  - chronic_absent: Red
  - graduation: Blue

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 44.9% proficient — 214 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 94.9% (cohort of 78)
- **2021**: 92.0% (cohort of 89)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 3

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 23.6% (39 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 12.8% (60 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.7% (8 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.9% (9 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 0
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 2.3%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 10.8%
- **Black/African American**: 1.1%
- **Asian**: 0.4%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 83.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 1.7%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 40.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 11.6% — 55 students
- **English Learners**: 0.2% — 1 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 39 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 14 students
- **Autism**: 4 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 4 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $16,779
- **Federal share**: $523
- **State + local share**: $16,256
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 475
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $15,825,324
- **Federal share**: 13.5%
- **State share**: 41.0%
- **Local share**: 45.5%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,230,359

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $91,097
- **Poverty rate**: 11.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 16.9%
- **Unemployment**: 1.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,800
- **Foreign-born residents**: 7.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 7.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 24.9 miles (AEROJET GENERAL CORP)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 0
- **Nearest brownfield**: 11.93 miles (GEORGIA PACIFIC MILL SITE)

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.1763 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 14.4 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **American River Charter** — 4.6 mi away, 0.5% (this school: 23.6%)
- **Gold Trail** — 5.7 mi away, 13% (this school: 23.6%)
- **Sutters Mill** — 6.7 mi away, 18.1% (this school: 23.6%)
- **Edwin Markham Middle** — 8.1 mi away, 16.1% (this school: 23.6%)
- **El Dorado High** — 8.4 mi away, 0.84% (this school: 23.6%)

### ela proficiency
- **Gold Trail** — 5.7 mi away, 50.25% (this school: 41.45%)
- **Sutters Mill** — 6.7 mi away, 51.05% (this school: 41.45%)
- **Edwin Markham Middle** — 8.1 mi away, 45.5% (this school: 41.45%)
- **El Dorado High** — 8.4 mi away, 54.1% (this school: 41.45%)
- **Northside Elementary** — 9.1 mi away, 51.85% (this school: 41.45%)

### graduation rate
- **El Dorado High** — 8.4 mi away, 98.6% (this school: 94.9%)
- **Sky Mountain Charter** — 10.5 mi away, 97% (this school: 94.9%)
- **Placer High** — 11.9 mi away, 95.8% (this school: 94.9%)
- **Pacific Crest Academy** — 12.0 mi away, 100% (this school: 94.9%)
- **Ponderosa High** — 13.0 mi away, 96% (this school: 94.9%)

### math proficiency
- **Sutters Mill** — 6.7 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Northside Elementary** — 9.1 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Rescue Elementary** — 11.5 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)
- **Foresthill High** — 11.7 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Skyridge Elementary** — 11.8 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/golden-sierra-junior-senior-high-garden-valley
- **Performance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/golden-sierra-junior-senior-high-garden-valley/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/golden-sierra-junior-senior-high-garden-valley/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/golden-sierra-junior-senior-high-garden-valley/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/golden-sierra-junior-senior-high-garden-valley/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/golden-sierra-junior-senior-high-garden-valley/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/golden-sierra-junior-senior-high-garden-valley/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/golden-sierra-junior-senior-high-garden-valley/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/golden-sierra-junior-senior-high-garden-valley/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/golden-sierra-junior-senior-high-garden-valley/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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