Cold Stream Alternative School
Truckee · Placer County · Public
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- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 6% of US high schools
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Cold Stream Alternative School compares for families
What families should know about Cold Stream Alternative School.
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Sierra High (continuation), Divide High, Beckwourth (jim) High (continuation) and 2 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-21Source: 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
Title I Schoolwide eligible
≥40% FRPL — qualifies for Title I Schoolwide program
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.
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 68.8 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 (-8.7%/yr, Total enrollment)
At per-pupil funding of $ / student:
| Horizon | Projected Total enrollment | Change | Funding impact / yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 yr (2027) | ~9 | -1 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2029) | ~8 | -2 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2031) | ~6 | -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.
Cold Stream Alternative School — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot
Public · Truckee · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools
- ▸Senior-class enrollment is up 0% (4→4 from 2024 to 2026), outpacing the peer-group median of -23%.
- ▸At its recent rate (-8.7%/yr), enrollment projects to ~8 by 2029 — about 2 fewer students than today.
Enrollment projection
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cold Stream Alternative School | Public | 10 | — | +0% |
| Peer-group median | — | -23% | ||
| Sierra High (continuation) | Public | 32 | — | -23% |
| Divide High | Public | 9 | — | -38% |
| Beckwourth (jim) High (continuation) | Public | 8 | — | -77% |
| Wheatland Community Day High | Public | 7 | — | +0% |
| Sierra Pass (continuation) | Public | 3 | — | -67% |
| Greenville High School | Public | 17 | — | -67% |
| Alpine County Opportunity | Public | 5 | — | — |
| Downieville Junior-Senior High | Public | 22 | — | +0% |
| John Adams Academy | Public | 26 | — | +0% |
| Folsom Lake High | Public | 36 | — | -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 →
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.
Tracking Placer County on enrollment (+0.0% vs. -0.7%), but stability (44.4%) is below the county median. Retention is the levered fix. Chronic absenteeism is also at 70.6% (up +70.6 pts from 2016-17) — engagement and demand are both signaling decline.
10 of 18 students who enrolled at Cold Stream Alternative School this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (55.6% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.
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.
Campus Breakdown — 2024
| Campus | Applicants | Admits | Enrollees | Admit Rate | UC Reach | Yield | Avg GPA (App) | Avg GPA (Adm) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UC Santa Barbara → Selective | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| UC Irvine → Selective | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
What This Means
For School Admins
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