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Pacific Coast High (continuation)

Arcata · Humboldt County · Northern Humboldt Union High · Public

Public Humboldt County Northern Humboldt Union High → CDS 1262687…

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At a glance

Academic signals

AP rigor: Bottom 6% of US high schools
4-yr grad rate: 90% in 2019 (Bottom 49% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)

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

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California College-Going Rate

19.5% of the 2022-23 graduating class enrolled in college within a year.

The share of 2022-23 graduates who enrolled at a college anywhere in the U.S. within 12 months, per the National Student Clearinghouse match the California Department of Education publishes.

Within 12 months

19.5%

of 41 graduates

Give the same class four more months and 22% had enrolled — CDE publishes a 16-month window alongside the 12-month one, 9 students.

Down 1.4 points from the 2021-22 class (20.9%).

Where the 2022-23 class enrolled

In California — 8 students (19.5%)

University of California 0.0% 0

California State University 2.4% 1

California Community College 17.1% 7

California private college 0.0% 0

Out of state — 0 students (0.0%)

Out-of-state 4-year 0.0% 0

Out-of-state 2-year 0.0% 0

CDE puts each graduate in one bucket only — whichever kind of college they were enrolled in longest — so these add up to the rate above. That is a different count from the UC Reach Score on this page, which counts a student at every UC campus that admitted them.

Source: California Department of Education, College-Going Rate (DataQuest) ↗, cohort 2022-23, posted 17-Sep-2025. Data file: cgr12mo23.txt ↗ (and the 16-month file ↗). CDE builds the rate by matching California high school completers to National Student Clearinghouse enrollment records; we publish CDE’s aggregates and hold no student-level data.

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.

4-year graduation rate · federal EDFacts

What % of students graduate on time?

Bottom 49% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate

4-year graduation rate

90%

Range: 80–100%

4-year cohort size

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

58.3%

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.

College readiness

Getting ready for college

These come from the state and federal files, not from UC — so they are here whether or not Pacific Coast High (continuation) has a UC admissions record.

Student-Counselor Ratio ⓘ

Counseling here is unusually well-staffed — about 240 students per counselor, near what experts recommend.

240:1

0.1 FTE counselors · 24 students

In context: CA median 337:1 · 97 fewer students per counselor · ASCA target 250:1.

A-G Completion ⓘ

Fewer than 1 in 10 graduates finish the courses UC and CSU require — below the state norm. Worth asking how course access and planning work here.

2023-24 cohort

In context: CA median 54.5% · -54.5 pp vs. median · Humboldt Co. 35.1%.

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.

About 1 in 3 students read and write at grade level — below the state norm — worth asking what extra support looks like.

Fewer than 1 in 10 students do math at grade level — below the state norm — worth asking what extra support looks like.

ELA — met or exceeded

n = 13

30.8%

incl. 7.7% exceeded

-15.1 pts vs. Humboldt County median (45.9%) · CA median 54.5% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 79.4%

Math — met or exceeded

n = 13

7.7%

incl. 0.0% exceeded

-13.3 pts vs. Humboldt County median (21.0%) · CA median 21.4% · 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 62% -2.5

Hispanic / Latino 12% -5.0

American Indian 12% +7.5

Two or more 8% -1.7

Asian 4% +1.7

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.

40% of students miss 10%+ of school days — above the state's ~23%. Ask what the school is doing about engagement.

Chronic absent

40.0%

18 of 45 students

Absenteeism is down 29.9 pp since 2016-17. Engagement improving — a positive trajectory worth understanding and reinforcing.

Humboldt County median

26.6% · school is worse than 73% of 11 HS

Statewide median

22.8%

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)

57 (2018) → 24 (2026)

-57.9%

Grade 12 (graduating class)

33 (2018) → 17 (2026)

-48.5%

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Enrollment stability & demand — 2024-25

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

9% of students who start the year finish it here — more churn than most CA schools. Ask what's behind the turnover.

Critical

Compounding decline on both vectors.

Enrollment -48.5% vs. county +41.0% AND stability (9.4%) below the county median. Recruitment and retention both under pressure — likely a foundational rather than tactical problem. Chronic absenteeism is also at 40.0% (up -29.9 pts from 2016-17) — engagement and demand are both signaling decline.

-48.5% senior class, grade 12 (2018–2026)

+41.0% Humboldt County baseline

-89.5pp gap vs. county

9.4% retention (county median 88.7%)

Senior class (grade 12) — indexed to 100 at 2018

Stability rate by year (raw %)

Stability rate

9.4%

5 of 53 students

48 of 53 students who enrolled at Pacific Coast High (continuation) this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (90.6% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.

Humboldt County median

88.7% · school is in the 0th percentile of 12 HS

Statewide median

87.3% · in the 1st percentile of 1,734 HS

Stability by student group

Socio. disadvantaged (41) 12.2%

White (31) 12.9%

Nearest peer high schools

Laurel Tree Charter School 76.7% Mad River High (continuation) 7.8% Zoe Barnum High 49.0% Captain John Continuation High 34.9% Six Rivers Charter School 91.5%

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 — Northern Humboldt 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

$29.5M

+18.3% since FY2017

Per-pupil revenue

$17,765

1,661 students enrolled

Revenue mix

State: 44.2%
Local: 46.2%
Federal: 9.5%

Instruction share

53.7%

of current spending · $8,916/pupil

Long-term debt

$29.4M

+36.5% 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 Northern Humboldt 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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