# Golden Valley High

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/golden-valley-high-merced/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/golden-valley-high-merced

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062466003308`
- **School name**: Golden Valley High
- **Location**: Merced, CA 95344
- **Address**: 2121 East Childs Ave.
- **District**: Merced Union High (LEAID `0624660`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 37.28890, -120.45028
- **Phone**: (209)325-1800
- **Website**: http://gvhs.muhsd.org
- **Wikidata QID**: Q5579935 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Valley_High_School_(Merced,_California)
- **Founded**: 1994

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,917
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 89
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 21.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 85.1%

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 44.2% proficient — 423 tested

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 96.0% (cohort of 479)
- **2021**: 97.0% (cohort of 451)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 22

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 98.4% (1,871 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 4.7% (92 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.7% (53 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 84.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 9.5% — 186 students
- **English Learners**: 9.0% — 176 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 134 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 27 students
- **Autism**: 18 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 14 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 14 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 4 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 2 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $12,796
- **Federal share**: $2,372
- **State + local share**: $10,424
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,955
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $18,884,048
- **Federal share**: 13.0%
- **State share**: 67.1%
- **Local share**: 19.9%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,409,233

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $48,527
- **Poverty rate**: 37.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 11.8%
- **Unemployment**: 4.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,251
- **Foreign-born residents**: 14.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 43.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 8.3 miles (CASTLE AIR FORCE BASE 6 AREAS)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 14
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.14 miles (FORMER SIMPSON CLEANER S PROPERTY)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF MERCED
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.39169 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Independence High (Alternative)** — 1.6 mi away, 4.35% (this school: 4.71%)
- **Buhach Colony High** — 8.0 mi away, 3.26% (this school: 4.71%)
- **Merced County Juvenile Court** — 8.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 4.71%)
- **Atwater High** — 10.6 mi away, 4.1% (this school: 4.71%)
- **Le Grand High** — 11.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 4.71%)

### ela proficiency
- **Herbert Hoover Middle** — 1.4 mi away, 52.7% (this school: 44.2%)
- **Donn B. Chenoweth Elementary** — 2.2 mi away, 56.75% (this school: 44.2%)
- **Merced High** — 2.5 mi away, 47.2% (this school: 44.2%)
- **El Capitan High** — 5.6 mi away, 57.3% (this school: 44.2%)
- **Franklin Elementary** — 5.6 mi away, 46.4% (this school: 44.2%)

### graduation rate
- **Merced High** — 2.5 mi away, 96.5% (this school: 96%)
- **Merced Scholars Charter** — 3.3 mi away, 97% (this school: 96%)
- **El Capitan High** — 5.6 mi away, 97.8% (this school: 96%)
- **Buhach Colony High** — 8.0 mi away, 99% (this school: 96%)
- **Atwater High** — 10.6 mi away, 97.8% (this school: 96%)

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