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Coastal Buttes Academy

Williams · Colusa County · Colusa County Office of Education · Public

Public Colusa County Colusa County Office of Education → CDS 0610066…

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At a glance

Academic signals

AP rigor: Bottom 6% of US high schools

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

How Coastal Buttes Academy compares for families

What families should know about Coastal Buttes Academy.

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SAT / ACT participation

CRDC federal data · 2020-21

SAT/ACT test-takers

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.

Federal Title I context

High-poverty school

Title I Schoolwide eligible

100.0%

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)

≥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.

College readiness

Getting ready for college

These come from the state and federal files, not from UC — so they are here whether or not Coastal Buttes Academy has a UC admissions record.

Student-Counselor Ratio ⓘ

Counseling here is unusually well-staffed — about 18 students per counselor, near what experts recommend.

18:1

0.5 FTE counselors · 9 students

In context: CA median 337:1 · 319 fewer students per counselor · ASCA target 250:1.

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 78% -7.9

White 11% +4.0

American Indian 11%

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.

Kids show up: 15% are chronically absent versus about 23% statewide — engagement most schools would envy.

Chronic absent

15.4%

2 of 13 students

Absenteeism is down 21.0 pp since 2021-22. Engagement improving — a positive trajectory worth understanding and reinforcing.

Colusa County median

12.3% · school is worse than 75% of 4 HS

Statewide median

22.8%

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)

5 (2019) → 9 (2026)

+80.0%

Grade 12 (graduating class)

6 (2021) → 9 (2026)

+50.0%

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Your similar-school group includes

Mid Valley High (continuation) · Arbuckle Alternative High (continuation) · Colusa Alternative High (continuation) · S. William Abel Academy · Butte View High · Ella Barkley High · +4 more

Enrollment stability & demand — 2024-25

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

79% of students who start the year here finish it here.

Mixed signal

Demand outpacing county is masking internal churn.

Enrollment growth is beating Colusa County (+50.0% vs. +20.8%), but 3 of 14 students didn't maintain continuous enrollment. Why are families leaving once enrolled?

+50.0% senior class, grade 12 (2021–2026)

+20.8% Colusa County baseline

+29.2pp gap vs. county

78.6% retention (county median 90.8%)

Senior class (grade 12) — indexed to 100 at 2021

Stability rate

78.6%

11 of 14 students

3 of 14 students who enrolled at Coastal Buttes Academy this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (21.4% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.

Colusa County median

90.8% · school is in the 0th percentile of 4 HS

Statewide median

87.3% · in the 27th percentile of 1,734 HS

Nearest peer high schools

Mid Valley High (continuation) 35.7% Arbuckle Alternative High (continuation) 15.8% Colusa Alternative High (continuation) 20.0% S. William Abel Academy 43.1% Butte View High 69.0%

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 — Colusa County Office of Education (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

$17.3M

+39.3% since FY2017

Per-pupil revenue

—

— students enrolled

Revenue mix

State: 42.8%
Local: 32.9%
Federal: 24.3%

Instruction share

37.9%

of current spending

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 Colusa County Office of Education 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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