Yosemite High School (YHS) is a secondary school in the Yosemite Unified School District in Oakhurst, California. YHS occupies 100 acres (0.40 km2) of rolling, wooded hills and is located within the foothills of California's Sierra Nevada. Yosemite High School was recognized as a California Distinguished School in 2001 and 2005. The school opened in September 1976 and enrollment in 2020-2021 was 537 students.
Yosemite High School
Oakhurst is a census-designated place (CDP) in Madera County, California, United States, 14 miles (23 km) south of the entrance to Yosemite National Park, in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. At an elevation of 2,274 ft (693 m), Oakhurst is situated at the junction of Highway 41 and Highway 49, marking the southern end of California's Gold Country. It is part of the Madera metropolitan statistical area.
Image: Oakhurst California Deadwood Mountain December 2023
Image: Little Church on the Hill at Oakhill Cemetery in Oakhurst, California
Image: Welcome to Oakhurst
Skeane S. Skeenes, first militia casualty of the Mariposa War, buried at Oakhill Cemetery, Oakhurst.