Twin Palms Continuation

· Riverside County · Palo Verde Unified
Public Riverside County 🏛 Palo Verde Unified → CDS 3367181…
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Aurora High (continuation) → Warner Junior Senior High School → Montecito High (continuation) → Borrego Springs High School → Mountain Heights Academy → Compare all similar →

No UC admissions data on file for Twin Palms Continuation.

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)
88 (2018)82 (2026)
-6.8%
Grade 12 (graduating class)
68 (2018)45 (2026)
-33.8%

If this trend holds (-0.9%/yr, Total enrollment)

At per-pupil funding of $ / student:

Horizon Projected Total enrollment Change Funding impact / yr
1 yr (2027) ~81 -1 $0
3 yr (2029) ~80 -2 $0
5 yr (2031) ~78 -4 $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 Riverside 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 -33.8% vs. county -2.7% AND stability (29.4%) 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 +38.2 pts from 2016-17) — engagement and demand are both signaling decline.

-33.8%  school enrollment (2018–2026)
-2.7%  Riverside County baseline
-31.1pp  gap vs. county
29.4%  retention (county median 85.4%)
Enrollment — indexed to 100 at 2018
Stability rate by year (raw %)
Stability rate
29.4%
37 of 126 students

89 of 126 students who enrolled at Twin Palms Continuation this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (70.6% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.

Riverside County median
85.4% · school is in the 6th percentile of 94 HS
Statewide median
87.2% · in the 6th percentile of 1,688 HS

Stability by student group

Socio. disadvantaged (116) 29.3%
Hispanic / Latino (97) 32.0%
Students w/ disabilities (21) 23.8%

Nearest peer high schools

Aurora High (continuation) 29.1% Warner Junior Senior High School 88.4% Montecito High (continuation) 51.2% Borrego Springs High School 90.2% Mountain Heights Academy 39.1%

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
85.7%
102 of 119 students

Absenteeism is up 38.2 pp since 2016-17. A rising absenteeism trend often precedes formal departure — worth investigating which subgroups are driving it.

Riverside County median
28.9% · school is worse than 99% of 94 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, 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.

ELA — met or exceeded
n = 33
6.1%
incl. 0.0% exceeded
-43.6 pts vs. Riverside County median (49.7%) · CA median 54.3% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 79.3%
Math — met or exceeded
n = 33
3.0%
incl. 0.0% exceeded
-12.7 pts vs. Riverside County median (15.7%) · CA median 21.1% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 53.6%

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

Hispanic / Latino 77% -2.4
White 11% +5.8
Black / African Am. 8% -3.2
Not reported 2%
Two or more 1% -1.4

Program subgroups

Students w/ disabilities 93% +3.1

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 — Palo Verde 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
$51.5M
+23.4% since FY2017
Per-pupil revenue
$18,247
2,821 students enrolled
Revenue mix
State: 58.1%
Local: 21.4%
Federal: 20.6%
Instruction share
55.7%
of current spending · $8,085/pupil
Long-term debt
$23.3M
+80.5% since FY2017
Total revenue by year ($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 Palo Verde 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).

Twin Palms Continuation — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot

Public · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools

  • Senior-class enrollment is down 34% (68→45 from 2018 to 2026), trailing the peer-group median of -13%.
  • At its recent rate (-0.9%/yr), enrollment projects to ~80 by 2029 — about 2 fewer students than today.

Enrollment projection

82 students (2026)
~80 projected (2029)
at -0.9%/yr

That's about 2 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
Twin Palms Continuation Public 82 -34%
Peer-group median 9.4% -13%
Aurora High (continuation) Public 82 +5%
Warner Junior Senior High School Public 93 -17%
Montecito High (continuation) Public 93 -6%
Borrego Springs High School Public 103 11.8% -32%
Mountain Heights Academy Public 105 -41%
New Horizon High Public 63 +20%
Beaumont Middle College Hs Public 62 +100%
All Tribes Charter Public 113 -26%
Black Rock Alternative/Continuation Public 125 -25%
Palo Verde High School Public 696 7.1% -9%

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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