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Redwood Coast Montessori

Arcata · Humboldt County · Arcata Elementary · Public

Public Humboldt County Arcata Elementary → CDS 1262679…
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Top 10% ELA · SBAC (CA) Top 3 Attendance (lowest chronic absenteeism) in Humboldt Top 10% Attendance (lowest chronic absenteeism) in CA

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  • About 9 in 10 students read and write at grade level. On the state's own 11th-grade test, 93% met or exceeded the college-readiness bar — the top 10% of California high schools (statewide: 54%).
  • Kids actually show up. Only 8% of students are chronically absent, versus about 23% statewide — day-to-day engagement most schools would envy.

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How Redwood Coast Montessori compares for families

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  • ▸ Locally📘 Top 8 in Humboldt County on ELA proficiency — plus 3 more top-ranks.
  • ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Pacific View Charter 2.0, Academy of the Redwoods, Northern United - Humboldt Charter and 2 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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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 Redwood Coast Montessori’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.

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 9 in 10 students read and write at grade level — the top 10% of California high schools.
About 1 in 3 students do math at grade level — above the state norm.
ELA — met or exceeded
n = 15
93.3%
incl. 20.0% exceeded
★ Top 10% CA
+47.4 pts above Humboldt County median (45.9%) · CA median 54.5% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 79.4%
Math — met or exceeded
n = 14
35.7%
incl. 21.4% exceeded
+14.7 pts above 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 76% +11.6
Hispanic / Latino 18% +6.6
Two or more 6% -13.4

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: 8% are chronically absent versus about 23% statewide — engagement most schools would envy.
Chronic absent
8.1%
5 of 62 students

Absenteeism is down 7.3 pp since 2018-19. Engagement improving — a positive trajectory worth understanding and reinforcing.

Humboldt County median
26.6% · school is better than 91% 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)
140 (2019) → 205 (2026)
+46.4%
Grade 12 (graduating class)
6 (2021) → 15 (2026)
+150.0%

If this trend holds (+6.0%/yr, Total enrollment)

At per-pupil funding of $ / student:

Horizon Projected Total enrollment Change Funding impact / yr
1 yr (2027) ~217 +12 $0
3 yr (2029) ~244 +39 $0
5 yr (2031) ~274 +69 $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.

How does Redwood Coast Montessori really compare on getting kids to college?

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Your similar-school group includes

Pacific View Charter 2.0 · Academy of the Redwoods · Northern United - Humboldt Charter · Six Rivers Charter School · Northcoast Preparatory And Performing Arts Academy · Alder Grove Charter School 2 · +4 more

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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.

83% of students who start the year here finish it here.
Mixed signal
Demand outpacing county is masking internal churn.

Enrollment growth is beating Humboldt County (+150.0% vs. +28.2%), but 11 of 64 students didn't maintain continuous enrollment. Why are families leaving once enrolled?

+150.0%  senior class, grade 12 (2021–2026)
+28.2%  Humboldt County baseline
+121.8pp  gap vs. county
82.8%  retention (county median 88.7%)
Senior class (grade 12) — indexed to 100 at 2021
Stability rate by year (raw %)
Stability rate
82.8%
53 of 64 students

11 of 64 students who enrolled at Redwood Coast Montessori this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (17.2% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.

Humboldt County median
88.7% · school is in the 17th percentile of 12 HS
Statewide median
87.3% · in the 35th percentile of 1,734 HS

Stability by student group

White (149) 88.6%
Socio. disadvantaged (119) 89.9%
Students w/ disabilities (59) 86.4%
Two or more races (39) 92.3%
Hispanic / Latino (31) 90.3%

Nearest peer high schools

Pacific View Charter 2.0 66.7% Academy of the Redwoods 91.9% Northern United - Humboldt Charter 73.4% Six Rivers Charter School 91.5% Northcoast Preparatory And Performing Arts Academy 85.7%

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.

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Redwood Coast Montessori is a public high school in Arcata, Humboldt County, California.

Enrollment was 205 students in 2026, up 46% since 2019.

Sources: University of California Office of the President (admissions), California Department of Education (enrollment, A-G, college-going), and the school's own published documents where named.

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How many students attend Redwood Coast Montessori? Enrollment was 205 students in 2026, up 46% since 2019.

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