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Anderson High

· Shasta County · Anderson Union High · Public

Public Shasta County 🏛 Anderson Union High → CDS 4569856…
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📘Top 25% ELA · SBAC (CA)

📋 At a glance

Programs & features
  • 📚 2 AP courses offered — Strong
  • ✅ Dual-enrollment program (college credit while in HS)
  • 🔢 1 calculus classes · 1 physics · 5 chemistry
Academic signals
  • 🎓 AP rigor: 52th percentile nationally
  • 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 92% (60th percentile nationally)

Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.

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How Anderson High compares for families

Solid mid-tier academic profile.

  • StatewideAP rigor at the 52th percentile nationally with 2 AP courses.
  • Locally📘 Top 6 in Shasta County on ELA proficiency.
  • vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Shasta View Academy, West Valley Early College High, Redding School Of The Arts and 2 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.

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🎓 Academic rigor

AP + advanced-course offerings

Strong — solid AP program + advanced courses

52th percentile nationally

50th 90th ↑ this school
Less rigorMore rigorMost rigor
AP courses offered
2
Math ✓
Students taking AP courses
60
≈11 per 100 students · uptake, not just offerings
Advanced math classes
2
1 calculus · 1 advanced
Lab science classes
6
1 physics · 5 chemistry
Other rigor signals
✅ Dual-enrollment program

Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). CRDC reports what's offered + enrolled — it doesn't collect AP exam pass rates (College Board owns that data and doesn't release it school-level).

SAT / ACT participation

CRDC federal data · 2020-21
SAT/ACT test-takers
0
11th-12th graders who took 1+ college admissions test
Test-taking intensity
0.0
takers per 100 students in grades 9-12

Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). Volume — not score — is what's reported here. A higher count means more students at this school are entering the college admissions pipeline. Note: 2020-21 was COVID-disrupted; some districts (especially those that stayed remote longer) report unusually low or zero takers.

🎓 4-year graduation rate · federal EDFacts

What % of students graduate on time?

60th percentile nationally

50th 90th
4-year graduation rate
92%
Range: 90–94%
4-year cohort size
97
Students in the 9th-grade entry class tracked over 4 years
Compared against
17,988
US high schools reporting 4-year ACGR

Source: federal EDFacts ACGR (Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate), 2019 vintage via Urban Institute. EDFacts publishes a range (low-high) to preserve privacy on small cohorts; we display the midpoint.

🏛️ Federal Title I context

Title I Schoolwide eligible

≥40% FRPL — qualifies for Title I Schoolwide program

53.2%
FRPL rate — % of students who qualify for the federal Free or Reduced-Price Lunch program. This is the underlying federal income-eligibility signal Title I designations are computed from (ESEA Sec. 1113).
0% (no FRPL) 35% TA · 40% Schoolwide 100% (universal FRPL)

40-74% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. The district can use Title I funds across the whole school under federal Schoolwide Program rules.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, free/reduced-price lunch eligibility. The actual Title I designation is a district decision and may differ from eligibility — but the federal eligibility math is what we show here. We don't claim to assert whether the district formally chose to enroll this school in Title I.

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 = 110
68.2%
incl. 38.2% exceeded
+12.8 pts above Shasta County median (55.4%) · CA median 54.3% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 79.3%
Math — met or exceeded
n = 110
34.5%
incl. 10.0% exceeded
+1.4 pts above Shasta County median (33.1%) · 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

White 53%
Hispanic / Latino 27%
American Indian 6%
Asian 5% +1.3
Two or more 4% -2.3
Black / African Am. 2%
Filipino 1%
Pacific Islander 1%
Not reported 1% -1.0

Program subgroups

Students w/ disabilities 65% -4.3
Socioeconomically disadv. 20% +1.2

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.

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
26.4%
153 of 580 students

Absenteeism is up 11.6 pp since 2016-17. A rising absenteeism trend often precedes formal departure — worth investigating which subgroups are driving it.

Shasta County median
25.2% · school is worse than 55% of 20 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).

Enrollment trend & projection

Total enrollment (9–12)
531 (2018)497 (2026)
-6.4%
Grade 12 (graduating class)
135 (2018)115 (2026)
-14.8%

If this trend holds (+0.3%/yr, Total enrollment)

At per-pupil funding of $ / student:

Horizon Projected Total enrollment Change Funding impact / yr
1 yr (2027) ~498 +1 $0
3 yr (2029) ~502 +5 $0
5 yr (2031) ~505 +8 $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.

Anderson High — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot

Public · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools

  • Senior-class enrollment is down 15% (135→115 from 2018 to 2026), trailing the peer-group median of +13%.
  • At its recent rate (-0.8%/yr), enrollment projects to ~485 by 2029 — about 12 fewer students than today.

Enrollment projection

497 students (2026)
~485 projected (2029)
at -0.8%/yr

That's about 12 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
Anderson High Public 497 -15%
Peer-group median 3.8% +13%
Shasta View Academy Public 538 +15%
West Valley Early College High Public 766 -22%
Redding School Of The Arts Public 664 +29%
Northern Summit Academy Shasta Public 209 +48%
Central Valley High Public 598 2.9% +10%
Shasta Charter Academy Public 280 3.8% -16%
Stellar Charter Public 239 -14%
Redding Collegiate Academy Public 229 +343%
Phoenix Charter Academy College View Public 262 -19%
Enterprise High School Public 1123 4.8% +23%

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 →

Enrollment stability & demand — 2024-25

Two complementary signals: retention (do students stay once enrolled?) and demand (are families choosing the school?). Read against the Shasta County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.

Critical
Material decline in demand.

Enrollment -14.8% vs. county +12.3% — losing far faster than the county. Each enrolled family matters more, but the engine of new enrollment is breaking down.

-14.8%  school enrollment (2018–2026)
+12.3%  Shasta County baseline
-27.1pp  gap vs. county
81.0%  retention (county median 79.1%)
Enrollment — indexed to 100 at 2018
Stability rate by year (raw %)
Stability rate
81.0%
490 of 605 students

115 of 605 students who enrolled at Anderson High this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (19.0% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.

Shasta County median
79.1% · school is in the 55th percentile of 20 HS
Statewide median
87.2% · in the 31st percentile of 1,688 HS

Stability by student group

Socio. disadvantaged (387) 77.0%
White (337) 80.1%
Hispanic / Latino (166) 82.5%
Students w/ disabilities (121) 77.7%
English learners (36) 75.0%
Two or more races (31) 87.1%

Nearest peer high schools

Shasta View Academy 88.9% West Valley Early College High 84.7% Redding School Of The Arts 79.8% Northern Summit Academy Shasta 52.0% Central Valley High 82.3%

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.

District financial profile — Anderson Union High (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
$26.7M
+9.0% since FY2017
Per-pupil revenue
$16,498
1,619 students enrolled
Revenue mix
State: 49.9%
Local: 38.2%
Federal: 11.9%
Instruction share
51.3%
of current spending · $7,265/pupil
Long-term debt
$11.2M
-0.4% since FY2017
Total revenue by year ($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 Anderson Union High 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).

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