Tahoe Truckee High School
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North Tahoe High School → South Tahoe High School → Western Sierra Collegiate Academy → Union Mine High School → El Dorado High → Compare all similar →Enrollment trend & projection
If this trend holds (+2.5%/yr, Total enrollment)
At per-pupil funding of $ / student:
| Horizon | Projected Total enrollment | Change | Funding impact / yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 yr (2027) | ~911 | +22 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2029) | ~958 | +69 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2031) | ~1,007 | +118 | $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 Placer County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.
Tahoe Truckee High School is recruiting families faster than Placer County is shrinking (school +46.9% vs. county +16.4%), but 83 students didn't make it to year-end. The recruitment engine works; the mid-year exits are worth understanding.
83 of 925 students who enrolled at Tahoe Truckee High School this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (9.0% 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.
Low and stable absenteeism — students are engaged and showing up. The leading indicator is healthy.
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 — Tahoe-Truckee 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: 76.2%
Federal: 6.0%
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 Tahoe-Truckee 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).
+16.8 pp above peer median (9.7%) · Ranked #1 of 10 similar schools
18.6%
9.7%
53.4%
26.5%
Higher than 66% of California high schools (1142 ranked, ≥50 seniors)
Tahoe Truckee High School's UC Reach of 26.5% is above the California median (18.6%). The top 10% of CA schools achieve 53.4% or higher.
Against similar schools, Tahoe Truckee High School stands out clearly — the peer-group median is 9.7%.
For context, the elite tier (top 1%) clears 95.1% — a gap of 69 pp from where this school sits.
Overall, Tahoe Truckee High School's UC Reach is higher than 66% of California high schools (1142 ranked).
Tahoe Truckee High School — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot
Public · Truckee · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools
- ▸On UC Reach, Tahoe Truckee High School sits near the top of its similar-school group (ranked #1 of 10): 26% vs. a peer median of 10%.
- ▸Its UC Reach has risen 10 points since 2019.
- ▸Senior-class enrollment is up 47% (160→235 from 2018 to 2026), outpacing the peer-group median of -2%.
- ▸Enrollment has been growing (+2.5%/yr); projects to ~958 by 2029.
Enrollment projection
Your school vs. its 10 most similar nearby schools
| School | Type | Size | UC Reach | Enroll. trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tahoe Truckee High School | Public | 889 | 26.5% | +47% |
| Peer-group median | 9.7% | -2% | ||
| North Tahoe High School | Public | 448 | 17.2% | +94% |
| South Tahoe High School | Public | 1032 | 19.0% | +14% |
| Western Sierra Collegiate Academy | Public | 782 | — | +5% |
| Union Mine High School | Public | 1029 | 7.2% | -0% |
| El Dorado High | Public | 1085 | 9.7% | -7% |
| Lincoln High School | Public | 1117 | 3.9% | -34% |
| Bear River High School | Public | 653 | 4.6% | -15% |
| Casa Roble Fundamental Hs | Public | 1213 | 10.9% | +4% |
| Horizon Charter School | Public | 639 | 4.9% | -3% |
| Placer High School | Public | 1239 | 10.4% | -3% |
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 →
Admit rate vs. CA peer average, by campus ⓘ
How does this school's admit rate at each UC compare to other CA schools whose applicant pool averages the same GPA?
| Campus | Applicant GPA (avg) | Actual admit rate | CA peer avg | Δ | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UC Berkeley | 3.98 | 8.3% | 14.5% | -6.2pp | Under |
| UCLA | 3.97 | 9.1% | 9.1% | 0.0pp | On target |
| UC San Diego | 3.93 | 28.9% | 22.4% | +6.5pp | Over |
| UC Santa Barbara | 3.87 | 23.9% | 28.0% | -4.1pp | On target |
| UC Irvine | 4.01 | 22.7% | 24.1% | -1.4pp | On target |
| UC Davis | 4.00 | 51.4% | 31.2% | +20.1pp | Over |
Where Tahoe Truckee High School sits vs. all California schools ⓘ
Overall, this school admits its UC applicants in line with what their GPAs predict (24.7% actual vs. 21.9% expected).
UC Outcomes Trend — 2019–2024
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 — 2024
| Campus | Applicants | Admits | Enrollees | Admit Rate | UC Reach | Yield | Avg GPA (App) | Avg GPA (Adm) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UC Berkeley → Elite | 36 | 3 | — | 8.3% | 1.5% | — | 3.98 | — |
| UCLA → Elite | 33 | 3 | — | 9.1% | 1.5% | — | 3.97 | — |
| UC San Diego → Selective | 45 | 13 | — | 28.9% | 6.4% | — | 3.93 | 4.20 |
| UC Santa Barbara → Selective | 46 | 11 | 3 | 23.9% | 5.4% | 27.3% | 3.87 | 4.21 |
| UC Irvine → Selective | 22 | 5 | — | 22.7% | 2.5% | — | 4.01 | 4.16 |
| UC Davis → | 37 | 19 | — | 51.4% | 9.3% | — | 4.00 | 4.14 |