Calistoga Junior/Senior High
· Napa County · Calistoga Joint Unified · Public
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- 📚 6 AP courses offered — Strong
- ✅ Dual-enrollment program (college credit while in HS)
- ✅ Gifted & talented program
- 🔢 1 calculus classes · 6 chemistry
- 🎓 AP rigor: 61th percentile nationally
- 📝 SAT/ACT participation: Bottom 28% by test-taker volume
- 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 95% (75th percentile nationally)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
🎓 Where grads go
UC admits by campus · Class of 2025
Source: University of California Office of the President, Admissions by Source School. Full campus-by-campus breakdown below.
How Calistoga Junior/Senior High compares for families
Mid-pack college outcomes within California.
- ▸ Statewide20.3% UC Reach — right around the California median of 18.1%.
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsBeats the peer median (20.3% UC Reach vs 13.3% median) across the 5 most similar nearby schools.
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🎓 Academic rigor
AP + advanced-course offerings
Strong — solid AP program + advanced courses
61th percentile nationally
✅ Gifted/talented 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 · 2020-21Bottom 28% by test-taker volume
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?
75th percentile nationally
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
High-poverty school
Title I Schoolwide eligible
≥75% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. These schools qualify for the highest tier of federal Title I funding and typically receive extra wraparound services. Academic outcomes vary widely — check the state assessment + grad-rate tiles.
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.
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.
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.
Absenteeism is up 9.6 pp since 2016-17. A rising absenteeism trend often precedes formal departure — worth investigating which subgroups are driving it.
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
If this trend holds (-0.7%/yr, Total enrollment)
At per-pupil funding of $ / student:
| Horizon | Projected Total enrollment | Change | Funding impact / yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 yr (2027) | ~342 | -3 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2029) | ~337 | -8 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2031) | ~332 | -13 | $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.
Calistoga Junior/Senior High — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot
Public · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools
- ▸On UC Reach Score, Calistoga Junior/Senior High sits in the middle of its similar-school group (ranked #4 of 9): 20 vs. a peer median of 13.
- ▸Calistoga Junior/Senior High's UC Reach Score has declined meaningfully from a peak of 36 in 2023 to 20 in 2025 — a 16-point drop that warrants attention. Multi-year UC Reach declines of this size often signal something specific (leadership change, comp-program shift, demographic move) rather than year-to-year noise. This is the kind of trajectory an Enrollment Trend Audit unpacks.
- ▸Senior-class enrollment is up 32% (47→62 from 2018 to 2026), outpacing the peer-group median of -8%.
- ▸At its recent rate (-0.4%/yr), enrollment projects to ~341 by 2029 — about 4 fewer students than today.
Enrollment projection
That's about 4 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 Score | Enroll. trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Calistoga Junior/Senior High | Public | 345 | 20 | +32% |
| Peer-group median | 13 | -8% | ||
| Saint Helena High School | Public | 443 | 16 | -2% |
| Middletown High School | Public | 417 | 7 | -13% |
| Technology High School | Public | 344 | 32 | +10% |
| Ridgway High (continuation) | Public | 252 | — | -4% |
| Pathways Charter | Public | 379 | — | -32% |
| Healdsburg High School | Public | 510 | 40 | -20% |
| Credo High School | Public | 487 | 21 | +235% |
| New Technology High School | Public | 378 | 10 | +10% |
| Cloverdale High School | Public | 388 | 7 | -21% |
| Esparto High School | Public | 287 | 8 | -24% |
UC Reach Score = 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 Napa County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.
Calistoga Junior/Senior High is recruiting families faster than Napa County is shrinking (school +31.9% vs. county +1.0%), but 21 students didn't make it to year-end. The recruitment engine works; the mid-year exits are worth understanding.
21 of 248 students who enrolled at Calistoga Junior/Senior High this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (8.5% 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.
District financial profile — Calistoga 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.
Local: 80.3%
Federal: 9.0%
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 Calistoga 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).
Calistoga Junior/Senior High sent 70 applications to the six most selective University of California campuses and 17.1% were admitted, producing a UC Reach Score of 20 — 2 points above the California median of 18, higher than 56% of California high schools..
+7 pts above peer median (13) · Ranked #4 of 9 similar schools
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Higher than 56% of California high schools (978 ranked, ≥50 seniors)
Calistoga Junior/Senior High's UC Reach Score of 20 is above the California median (18). The top 10% of CA schools achieve 51 or higher.
For context, the elite tier (top 1%) clears 97 — a gap of 77 pp from where this school sits.
Overall, Calistoga Junior/Senior High's UC Reach is higher than 56% of California high schools (978 ranked).
UC Outcomes Trend — 2018–2025
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 — 2025
| Campus | Applicants | Admits | Enrollees | Admit Rate | UC Reach Score | Yield | Avg GPA (App) | Avg GPA (Adm) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UC Berkeley → Elite | 10 | —† | —† | —† | —† | — | — | —† |
| UCLA → Elite | 9 | —† | —† | —† | —† | — | — | —† |
| UC San Diego → Selective | 9 | 4 | —† | 44.4% | 7 | — | — | —† |
| UC Santa Barbara → Selective | 9 | —† | —† | —† | —† | — | — | —† |
| UC Irvine → Selective | 11 | —† | —† | —† | —† | — | — | —† |
| UC Davis → | 22 | 8 | —† | 36.4% | 14 | — | — | —† |
What This Means
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