Captain John Continuation High

· Humboldt County · Klamath-Trinity Joint Unified
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No UC admissions data on file for Captain John Continuation High.

This school doesn't appear in UCOP's source-school records (it may send few or no applicants to UC). Its enrollment trend and similar-school comparison are still below.

Enrollment trend & projection

Total enrollment (9–12)
32 (2018)22 (2026)
-31.2%
Grade 12 (graduating class)
13 (2018)9 (2026)
-30.8%

If this trend holds (-4.6%/yr, Total enrollment)

At per-pupil funding of $ / student:

Horizon Projected Total enrollment Change Funding impact / yr
1 yr (2027) ~21 -1 $0
3 yr (2029) ~19 -3 $0
5 yr (2031) ~17 -5 $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 Humboldt County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.

Critical
Compounding decline on both vectors.

Enrollment -30.8% vs. county +41.0% AND stability (34.9%) below the county median. Recruitment and retention both under pressure — likely a foundational rather than tactical problem. Chronic absenteeism is also at 95.0% (up +95.0 pts from 2017-18) — engagement and demand are both signaling decline.

-30.8%  school enrollment (2018–2026)
+41.0%  Humboldt County baseline
-71.8pp  gap vs. county
34.9%  retention (county median 88.7%)
Enrollment — indexed to 100 at 2018
Stability rate by year (raw %)
Stability rate
34.9%
15 of 43 students

28 of 43 students who enrolled at Captain John Continuation High this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (65.1% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.

Humboldt County median
88.7% · school is in the 0th percentile of 12 HS
Statewide median
87.2% · in the 9th percentile of 1,688 HS

Stability by student group

Socio. disadvantaged (38) 31.6%
American Indian / AN (36) 36.1%

Nearest peer high schools

Mad River High (continuation) 7.8% Laurel Tree Charter School 76.7% Pacific Coast High (continuation) 9.4% Alps View High (continuation) 26.5%

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.

Chronic absent
95.0%
38 of 40 students

Absenteeism is up 95.0 pp since 2017-18. A rising absenteeism trend often precedes formal departure — worth investigating which subgroups are driving it.

Humboldt County median
26.6% · school is worse than 100% of 11 HS
Statewide median
22.9%
Chronic absenteeism by year (raw %)

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, 2023

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.

ELA — met or exceeded
n = —
0.0%
incl. 0.0% exceeded
Math — met or exceeded
n = —
0.0%
incl. 0.0% exceeded

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

American Indian 91% +9.8
White 4% -6.3
Two or more 4% +1.8

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 — Klamath-Trinity 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.

Total revenue
$25.3M
-43.2% since FY2017
Per-pupil revenue
$25,574
990 students enrolled
Revenue mix
State: 44.2%
Local: 14.6%
Federal: 41.2%
Instruction share
47.5%
of current spending · $10,384/pupil
Long-term debt
$21.6M
+2.3% since FY2017
Total revenue by year ($M)
Total expenditure by year ($M)

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 Klamath-Trinity 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).

Captain John Continuation High — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot

Public · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools

  • Senior-class enrollment is down 31% (13→9 from 2018 to 2026), outpacing the peer-group median of -40%.
  • At its recent rate (-4.6%/yr), enrollment projects to ~19 by 2029 — about 3 fewer students than today.

Enrollment projection

22 students (2026)
~19 projected (2029)
at -4.6%/yr

That's about 3 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
Captain John Continuation High Public 22 -31%
Peer-group median -40%
Mad River High (continuation) Public 20 -52%
Laurel Tree Charter School Public 23 +20%
Pacific Coast High (continuation) Public 24 -48%
Alps View High (continuation) Public 20 +200%
Phoenix Charter Academy Public 19
Discovery High Public 37 -41%
Zoe Barnum High Public 49 -27%
Dunsmuir High Public 38 -19%
Happy Camp High School Public 43 -47%
Valley High Public 11 -40%

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 →

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