Public school / High
Golden Valley High
Merced, California
- NCES ID
- 062466003308
- District
- Merced Union High
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Golden Valley High is a public high school in Merced, California, run by Merced Union High. It enrols 1,956 students — the 1955th largest of 10,418 public schools in California.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
1,956
Teachers
89.0
Students per teacher
22.0
Free or reduced-price lunch
80.7%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Merced Union High
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Atwater High2,095 students
- 2Golden Valley High1,956 students
- 3Merced High1,894 students
- 4El Capitan High1,839 students
- 5Buhach Colony High1,746 students
- 6Livingston High1,156 students
- 7Yosemite High (Continuation)325 students
- 8Independence High (Alternative)119 students
- Enrollment+312.7%
- Teachers+323.8%
- Students per teacher−0.5%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+18.9%
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory