North Tahoe High
Tahoe City · CA · Tahoe-Truckee Unified · Public
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Lake Tahoe Prepatory School → Tahoe Expedition Academy → Sierra High (Continuation) → Tahoe Truckee High → Sugar Bowl Academy → Elevated Digital Learning Academy → Blue Ridge → Mt. Tallac High →📋 At a glance
- 📚 18 AP courses offered — Elite
- ✅ Gifted & talented program
- 🔢 2 calculus classes · 1 physics · 5 chemistry
- 🎓 AP rigor: 80th percentile nationally
- 📝 SAT/ACT participation: Bottom 19% by test-taker volume
- 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 97% (90th percentile nationally)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How North Tahoe High compares for families
Stronger-than-average college-prep profile.
- ▸ StatewideAP rigor in the top 20% nationally with 18 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: Lake Tahoe Prepatory School, Tahoe Expedition Academy, Sierra High (Continuation) 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
80th 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 · 2020-21Bottom 19% by test-taker volume
Source: 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?
90th percentile nationally
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 Targeted Assistance eligible
35-39% FRPL — qualifies for Title I Targeted Assistance
35-39% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. The school can receive Title I funds targeted to identified students (not schoolwide).
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 -1.0%/year, projecting from 2024's 468 students:
≈ 24 fewer students by 2029 — a real revenue/relevance risk worth getting ahead of.
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Revenue at risk
At $26,159 per student in district revenue, the 24 students projected to be lost by 2029 represent ≈ $627,816/year in funding at risk.
District total revenue ÷ enrollment, NCES F-33. Public funding largely follows enrollment, so a shrinking class is a recurring budget hit.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lake Tahoe Prepatory School Olympic Valley |
Private | 4.6 | 46 | — |
| Tahoe Expedition Academy Truckee |
Private | 8.2 | 202 | +32.0% |
| Sierra High (Continuation) Truckee |
Public | 10.2 | 24 | — |
| Tahoe Truckee High Truckee |
Public | 10.3 | 907 | +8.5% |
| Sugar Bowl Academy Norden |
Private | 13.9 | 57 | -39.4% |
| Elevated Digital Learning Academy South Lake Tahoe |
Public | 19.5 | 87 | — |
| Blue Ridge South Lake Tahoe |
Public | 19.6 | 11 | — |
| Mt. Tallac High South Lake Tahoe |
Public | 20.5 | 50 | -26.5% |