 | Penn Valley Union School District operates three schools. Williams Ranch is a K - 5 school located near Lake Wildwood. Ready Springs is a K - 8 school located in Penn Valley Center. Vantage Point Charter School is a K - 12 school located in Penn Valley Center. Nevada Joint Union High School District operates four schools, and they are Nevada Union High School, Bear River High School, Silver Springs High School, and Ghidotti Early College High School and they are all located in Grass Valley. Sierra Community College has a beautiful and extensive Grass Valley campus with a large student body of all ages, and is also home to Ghidotti Early College High School. |
 | The Sacramento area, only an hour away, offers Sacramento State University, U. C. Davis, Folsom Lake College, and William Jessup University. Sierra College is based in Rocklin, but has satelite campuses in Grass Valley and Truckee. Reno is about 2 hours away with University of Nevada at Reno, and Chico is just over an hour away with Chico State University. |
| School District Maps Nevada Joint Union High School District |