Coulterville High

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No UC admissions data on file for Coulterville 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)
11 (2018)5 (2026)
-54.5%
Grade 12 (graduating class)
3 (2018)1 (2025)
-66.7%

If this trend holds (-9.4%/yr, Total enrollment)

At per-pupil funding of $ / student:

Horizon Projected Total enrollment Change Funding impact / yr
1 yr (2027) ~5 +0 $0
3 yr (2029) ~4 -1 $0
5 yr (2031) ~3 -2 $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 Mariposa 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 -66.7% vs. county +19.8% AND stability (44.4%) below the county median. Recruitment and retention both under pressure — likely a foundational rather than tactical problem. Chronic absenteeism is also at 85.7% (up +39.5 pts from 2016-17) — engagement and demand are both signaling decline.

-66.7%  school enrollment (2018–2025)
+19.8%  Mariposa County baseline
-86.5pp  gap vs. county
44.4%  retention (county median 87.0%)
Enrollment — indexed to 100 at 2018
Stability rate
44.4%
4 of 9 students

5 of 9 students who enrolled at Coulterville High this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (55.6% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.

Mariposa County median
87.0% · school is in the 0th percentile of 1 HS
Statewide median
87.2% · in the 14th percentile of 1,688 HS

Nearest peer high schools

South Fork High 33.3% Cold Springs High 20.0% Yosemite Park High 33.3% Mountain High 33.3% Long Barn High 58.3%

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 — 2023-24

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
85.7%
12 of 14 students

Absenteeism is up 39.5 pp since 2016-17. A rising absenteeism trend often precedes formal departure — worth investigating which subgroups are driving it.

Mariposa County median
35.7% · school is worse than 100% of 1 HS
Statewide median
23.7%

Source: California Department of Education, Chronic Absenteeism 2023-24. Benchmarks limited to non-virtual public & charter HS with ≥100 eligible students. CDE didn't publish a usable 2019-20 file (COVID).

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

White 60% -20.0
Hispanic / Latino 20%
Two or more 20%

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 — Mariposa County 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
$29.6M
+18.6% since FY2017
Per-pupil revenue
$18,445
1,604 students enrolled
Revenue mix
State: 30.3%
Local: 59.6%
Federal: 10.1%
Instruction share
51.4%
of current spending · $8,180/pupil
Long-term debt
$15.9M
+86.9% since FY2017
Total revenue by year ($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 Mariposa County 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).

Coulterville High — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot

Public · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools

  • Senior-class enrollment is down 67% (3→1 from 2018 to 2025), trailing the peer-group median of +0%.
  • At its recent rate (-9.4%/yr), enrollment projects to ~4 by 2029 — about 1 fewer students than today.

Enrollment projection

5 students (2026)
~4 projected (2029)
at -9.4%/yr

That's about 1 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
Coulterville High Public 5 -67%
Peer-group median +0%
South Fork High Public 4 +0%
Cold Springs High Public 3 +0%
Yosemite Park High Public 2 +0%
Mountain High Public 4 +0%
Long Barn High Public 10 +33%
Sentinel High Public 4 -88%
Raymond Granite High Public 4 -50%
Tioga High Public 45 -11%
Don Pedro High Public 42 +43%
Monarch Academy Public 37 +100%

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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