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Palisades High (continuation)

Calistoga · Napa County · Calistoga Joint Unified · Public

Public Napa County Calistoga Joint Unified → CDS 2866241…

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Academic signals

AP rigor: Bottom 14% of US high schools

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

How Palisades High (continuation) compares for families

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California College-Going Rate

College-going rate: —

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.

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CDE masks small groups. It suppresses every figure for a school whose graduating class is 10 students or fewer, so no rate is published for Palisades High (Continuation)’s 2022-23 class. The figure exists — it is withheld, not missing.

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.

College readiness

Getting ready for college

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

Student-Counselor Ratio ⓘ

Counseling here is unusually well-staffed — about 6 students per counselor, near what experts recommend.

6:1

1.0 FTE counselors · 6 students

In context: CA median 337:1 · 331 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 83% -16.7

White 17%

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 — 2022-23

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.

58% of students miss 10%+ of school days — above the state's ~27%. Ask what the school is doing about engagement.

Chronic absent

58.3%

7 of 12 students

Absenteeism is down 29.2 pp since 2016-17. Engagement improving — a positive trajectory worth understanding and reinforcing.

Napa County median

23.5% · school is worse than 86% of 7 HS

Statewide median

26.6%

Chronic absenteeism by year (raw %)

Source: California Department of Education, Chronic Absenteeism 2022-23. 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)

7 (2018) → 6 (2026)

-14.3%

Grade 12 (graduating class)

2 (2018) → 3 (2026)

+50.0%

How does Palisades High (continuation) really compare on getting kids to college?

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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 Napa County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.

62% of students who start the year here finish it here.

Mixed signal

Demand outpacing county is masking internal churn.

Enrollment growth is beating Napa County (+50.0% vs. +1.0%), but 3 of 8 students didn't maintain continuous enrollment. Why are families leaving once enrolled? Chronic absenteeism is also at 58.3% (up -29.2 pts from 2016-17) — engagement and demand are both signaling decline.

+50.0% senior class, grade 12 (2018–2026)

+1.0% Napa County baseline

+49.0pp gap vs. county

62.5% retention (county median 91.5%)

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

Stability rate by year (raw %)

Stability rate

62.5%

5 of 8 students

3 of 8 students who enrolled at Palisades High (continuation) this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (37.5% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.

Napa County median

91.5% · school is in the 14th percentile of 7 HS

Statewide median

87.3% · in the 22nd percentile of 1,734 HS

Nearest peer high schools

Buena Vista High 41.7% Loconoma Valley High 17.4% Madison Community High 43.8% Shereene Wilkerson Academy Of Excellence 7.7%

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.

Total revenue

$22.5M

+18.3% since FY2017

Per-pupil revenue

$25,840

869 students enrolled

Revenue mix

State: 10.7%
Local: 80.3%
Federal: 9.0%

Instruction share

57.8%

of current spending · $13,623/pupil

Long-term debt

$29.6M

+35.8% 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 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).

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