Piner High
Santa Rosa · CA · Santa Rosa High · Public
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Northwest Prep Charter → Paideia Educational Heritage → North Valley School → Pivot Charter School - North Bay → Grace Christian Academy → Anova Center For Education Sonoma County → Ridgway High (Continuation) → Summerfield Waldorf School And Farm →📋 At a glance
- 📚 11 AP courses offered — Elite
- ✅ Gifted & talented program
- 🔢 1 calculus classes · 2 physics · 1 chemistry
- 🎓 AP rigor: 76th percentile nationally
- 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 88% (Bottom 43% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Piner High compares for families
Stronger-than-average college-prep profile.
- ▸ StatewideAP rigor in the top 24% nationally with 11 AP courses.
- ▸ LocallyCA trails the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (−4 points). Stronger local schools matter even more.
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Northwest Prep Charter, Paideia Educational Heritage, North Valley School and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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🎓 Academic rigor
AP + advanced-course offerings
Elite — exceptional AP + advanced course breadth
76th percentile nationally
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). CRDC reports what's offered + enrolled — it doesn't collect AP exam pass rates (College Board owns that data and doesn't release it school-level).
SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-21Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). Volume — not score — is what's reported here. A higher count means more students at this school are entering the college admissions pipeline. Note: 2020-21 was COVID-disrupted; some districts (especially those that stayed remote longer) report unusually low or zero takers.
🎓 4-year graduation rate · federal EDFacts
What % of students graduate on time?
Bottom 43% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate
Source: federal EDFacts ACGR (Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate), 2019 vintage via Urban Institute. EDFacts publishes a range (low-high) to preserve privacy on small cohorts; we display the midpoint.
👩🏫 Teacher workforce · federal CRDC
Teacher experience & reliability
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2017-18 — the most recent vintage that publishes per-school teacher quality fields; the 2020-21 sweep had them suppressed). "Inexperienced" = teachers in their first or second year. "Chronic absence" = teachers absent 10+ days/year.
🏛️ Federal Title I context
Title I Schoolwide eligible
≥40% FRPL — qualifies for Title I Schoolwide program
40-74% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. The district can use Title I funds across the whole school under federal Schoolwide Program rules.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, free/reduced-price lunch eligibility. The actual Title I designation is a district decision and may differ from eligibility — but the federal eligibility math is what we show here. We don't claim to assert whether the district formally chose to enroll this school in Title I.
Counselor capacity
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020-2021. Counselor ratio = the school's most recent total enrollment ÷ counselor FTE. The American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommends a 250:1 maximum; the US national median across schools with on-staff counselors is roughly 430:1.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of +0.2%/year, projecting from 2024's 1,434 students:
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Nearby high schools — the local competition
The closest high schools families here also consider, and where their enrollment is heading.
| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northwest Prep Charter Santa Rosa |
Public · charter | 0.5 | 85 | +13.3% |
| Paideia Educational Heritage Santa Rosa |
Private | 1.3 | 1 | — |
| North Valley School Santa Rosa |
Private | 1.5 | 35 | — |
| Pivot Charter School - North Bay Santa Rosa |
Public · charter | 2.1 | 343 | +27.5% |
| Grace Christian Academy Santa Rosa |
Private | 2.2 | 163 | — |
| Anova Center For Education Sonoma County Santa Rosa |
Private | 2.4 | 88 | -23.5% |
| Ridgway High (Continuation) Santa Rosa |
Public | 2.6 | 252 | +2.4% |
| Summerfield Waldorf School And Farm Santa Rosa |
Private | 2.6 | 256 | -23.6% |