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Yosemite Falls Education Center · Oakhurst

Yosemite Falls Education Center: The state doesn't publish enough data to score this school fairly.

Yosemite Falls Education Center is an elementary school in Oakhurst. The state doesn't publish enough data to score it fairly — so we won't. Here's what we can show.

Alternative school — serves students who benefit from a non-traditional educational setting. Scores are not directly comparable to comprehensive schools.

No Scope Score available

California doesn't publicly report per-grade test results when fewer than 11 students are tested in a grade — a privacy protection for small schools. With 25 students total, this school likely falls below that threshold in most tested grades. We can't compute a Scope Score without that data.

Worth a school visit

With little published data, a visit does the heavy lifting: ask about class sizes, teacher tenure, and where last year's students went next.

  • Ask about typical class sizes and the student-teacher ratio.
  • Ask how long teachers have stayed at the school.
  • Ask where recent graduates or transfers went next.
  • Ask whether the tour can step into a working classroom, and watch how a lesson actually runs.

Where the path goes

Yosemite Falls Education Center serves grades K-12 — students can complete their entire K-12 education here, with no school-to-school transitions.

The people teaching here

Context — never part of the Scope Score
Student : teacherStudent to teacher ratio: this school 25:1, district 22:125:1
Teaching staff2 teachers
Avg. experience13.5 years
Fully credentialed6%
Salary Schedule
Teacher salary schedule$53,832 – $96,556
Principal salary$125,019 – $151,974
Superintendent salary$240,795

Pay is set by the district, not the school.

What gets spent here

Per-pupil spendingPer-pupil spending: $16,371, CA average $14,815$16,371 · spent at this school

These measure different things: this figure is spending attributed to this campus, while district-wide figures also include central administration, districtwide programs, and the state's pension contributions made on the district's behalf — costs that never get assigned to a single school. The district number runs higher at nearly every school, not just this one.

Federal share$1,492 per student

$1,492 per student arrives as federal Title funding — a measure of concentrated need, not school quality.

District current expense · FY 2024–25$19,880 per student

The district's current expense of education per student, from CDE's annual SACS filing — the freshest district spending figure the state publishes.

Where the district's dollars go · FY 2024–25 · CDE SACS
Instruction48%
Instruction support11%
Student services10%
Administration10%
Buildings & maintenance17%
Other3%

District-level, from the district's own SACS general-ledger filing — school-by-school breakdowns aren't published by the state.

district detail, 2016–2020 — the newest published
2020$13,708 per pupil
2019$12,296 per pupil
2018$12,509 per pupil
2017$10,739 per pupil
2016$10,362 per pupil

Source: NCES F-33 · Full district breakdown →

The neighborhood it serves

White72.0%
District 59.7% · CA 19.9%
Hispanic28.0%
District 26.5% · CA 56.1%
GenderFemale 24.0%Male 76.0%
Low IncomeFree/reduced lunch eligible 56.0% (8pp below CA avg)
Neighborhood — American Community Survey
Median income$81K · CA $85K
Median home value$396K · CA $659K
Bachelor's degree+27% · CA 35%
ZIP population7,614
Median age47 years

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates (2024) · ZIP-level

Worth Knowing

At 25 students, this school is much smaller than the typical California elementary school (≈480).

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