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Welcome to Gold River Discovery Center

Gold River Discovery Center’s mission is to inspire, prepare and empower each student to achieve their full potential.

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Gold River Spirit

On Fridays, we put on our gold and blue to represent our Miner's Pride. We also celebrate a "High-Five Friday" with our friends and staff.

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GRDC Middle School Sports

In partnership with the Sacramento County Parks and Recreation, we offer cross-country, girls volleyball, boys & girls basketball and track & field.

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Science Buddies

One unique aspect of being a school with elementary and middle school is the mentoring and partnering our middle schoolers do with younger students to teach them science experiements.

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Our students are more than just students.

We focus on developing MINERS that are well-rounded with daily messages from the administration team and classroom social-emotional lessons.

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Science Focused

GRDC students with various hands-on science activities like science camps, the garden, field trips, and presenters.

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The VFW is dedicated to promoting patriotism and investing in our future generation. If you are a democracy-loving high school student interested in a $35,000 college scholarship or a patriotic middle school student interested in winning $5,000, these scholarships may be for you.

Read More about VFW Youth Scholarship
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Over the past two days, San Juan Unified has received reports of social media posts containing threatening statements and each naming or tagging a different list of schools across the region. Our safety team is closely monitoring the situation in coordination with law enforcement. We want to reassure families that we have no evidence of an actionable threat to any of our school communities at this time. 

Read More about Update on regional social media threats - Sept. 13, 2024

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