Calistoga Junior/Senior High
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If this trend holds (-0.4%/yr, Total enrollment)
At per-pupil funding of $ / student:
| Horizon | Projected Total enrollment | Change | Funding impact / yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 yr (2027) | ~344 | -1 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2029) | ~341 | -4 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2031) | ~338 | -7 | $0 |
Straight-line extrapolation of the recent annual rate — a what-if, not a forecast of intent. Default = California's LCFF base grant for grades 9–12 ($12,423/ADA). Edit the figure to match your school.
Enrollment stability & demand — 2024-25
Two complementary signals: retention (do students stay once enrolled?) and demand (are families choosing the school?). Read against the Napa County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.
Calistoga Junior/Senior High is recruiting families faster than Napa County is shrinking (school +31.9% vs. county +1.0%), but 21 students didn't make it to year-end. The recruitment engine works; the mid-year exits are worth understanding.
21 of 248 students who enrolled at Calistoga Junior/Senior High this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (8.5% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.
Stability by student group
Nearest peer high schools
Source: California Department of Education, Stability Rate 2024-25. Benchmarks limited to non-virtual public & charter HS with ≥100 cumulative enrollees so by-design-high-churn continuation schools don't dominate the bottom of the distribution. Cumulative enrollment counts every student on the rolls during the year, so it can exceed peak-day enrollment.
Chronic absenteeism — 2024-25
Share of students missing 10% or more of expected attendance — the leading indicator that often precedes the demand decline shown above. Families disengaging tend to raise absenteeism first, then formally leave. Basis: grades 9–12.
Absenteeism is up 9.6 pp since 2016-17. A rising absenteeism trend often precedes formal departure — worth investigating which subgroups are driving it.
Source: California Department of Education, Chronic Absenteeism 2024-25. Benchmarks limited to non-virtual public & charter HS with ≥100 eligible students. CDE didn't publish a usable 2019-20 file (COVID).
SBAC academic outcomes — grade 11, 2025
Share of grade-11 students meeting or exceeding the California standard on Smarter Balanced ELA and Math. This is the academic-readiness signal that pairs with UC Reach (post-grad outcomes), stability (retention), and absenteeism (engagement). Note: statewide median Math is only ~20% — a school at 20% isn't an outlier; one at 45%+ genuinely is.
Source: California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP) Smarter Balanced research files. Benchmarks limited to non-virtual public & charter HS with ≥30 tested students.
Student composition — 2025-26
HS grades 9–12 racial/ethnic composition and program subgroups, from CDE Census Day Enrollment. Two-year shift shown when ≥1 pt — surfaces how the community served has changed since 2023-24.
Race / ethnicity
Program subgroups
Source: California Department of Education, Census Day Enrollment 2025-26 (HS grades 9–12). Δ shown when shift is ≥1 pt since 2023-24. Categories below 0.5% omitted.
District financial profile — Calistoga Joint Unified (FY2020)
From 4 years of NCES F-33 filings (the federally-mandated district finance survey). Public schools don't have their own books — the district does. These figures show the financial scale, revenue dependence, instruction-vs-overhead mix, and long-term debt that shape what a school can sustain.
Local: 80.3%
Federal: 9.0%
Source: NCES F-33 Annual Survey of School System Finances (Urban Institute Education Data API). Latest year currently published: FY2020. F-33 is a district-level federal filing — it reflects the Calistoga Joint Unified as a whole, not this individual school's books. Revenue mix shows where the district's dollars come from (state aid dominates in CA via LCFF). Instruction share is current expenditure on instruction ÷ total current expenditure (national benchmark ~60%). Long-term debt is end-of-year outstanding (mostly facilities bonds).
+7.0 pp above peer median (13.3%) · Ranked #4 of 9 similar schools
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Higher than 55% of California high schools (1105 ranked, ≥50 seniors)
Calistoga Junior/Senior High's UC Reach of 20.3% is above the California median (18.5%). The top 10% of CA schools achieve 53.3% or higher.
For context, the elite tier (top 1%) clears 102.7% — a gap of 82 pp from where this school sits.
Overall, Calistoga Junior/Senior High's UC Reach is higher than 55% of California high schools (1105 ranked).
Calistoga Junior/Senior High — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot
Public · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools
- ▸On UC Reach, Calistoga Junior/Senior High sits in the middle of its similar-school group (ranked #4 of 9): 20% vs. a peer median of 13%.
- ▸Its UC Reach has risen 10 points since 2018.
- ▸Senior-class enrollment is up 32% (47→62 from 2018 to 2026), outpacing the peer-group median of -8%.
- ▸At its recent rate (-0.4%/yr), enrollment projects to ~341 by 2029 — about 4 fewer students than today.
Enrollment projection
That's about 4 fewer students. At per-student funding of $ per student, that's roughly $0 in annual state funding at risk.
Default = California's LCFF base grant for grades 9–12 ($12,423 per ADA) — adjust to your district's actual per-pupil figure. Projection extrapolates the recent annual rate — not a forecast of intent.
Your school vs. its 10 most similar nearby schools
| School | Type | Size | UC Reach | Enroll. trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Calistoga Junior/Senior High | Public | 345 | 20.3% | +32% |
| Peer-group median | 13.3% | -8% | ||
| Saint Helena High School | Public | 443 | 16.2% | -2% |
| Middletown High School | Public | 417 | 7.0% | -13% |
| Technology High School | Public | 344 | 31.6% | +10% |
| Ridgway High (continuation) | Public | 252 | — | -4% |
| Pathways Charter | Public | 379 | — | -32% |
| Healdsburg High School | Public | 510 | 40.3% | -20% |
| Credo High School | Public | 487 | 21.3% | +235% |
| New Technology High School | Public | 378 | 10.4% | +10% |
| Cloverdale High School | Public | 388 | 6.9% | -21% |
| Esparto High School | Public | 287 | 7.5% | -24% |
UC Reach = top-6 UC admits ÷ senior class (can exceed 100% when students are admitted to multiple campuses). Enrollment trend = first-to-latest grade-12 change on file. Similar schools matched on proximity, size, type. Methodology →
UC Outcomes Trend — 2018–2025
Class size from CDE grade 12 enrollment. Campus-level data — applicant/admit totals may count a student at multiple campuses more than once.
Campus Breakdown — 2025
| Campus | Applicants | Admits | Enrollees | Admit Rate | UC Reach | Yield | Avg GPA (App) | Avg GPA (Adm) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UC Berkeley → Elite | 10 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| UCLA → Elite | 9 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| UC San Diego → Selective | 9 | 4 | — | 44.4% | 6.8% | — | — | — |
| UC Santa Barbara → Selective | 9 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| UC Irvine → Selective | 11 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| UC Davis → | 22 | 8 | — | 36.4% | 13.6% | — | — | — |