Trinity High School

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At a glance

Programs & features
  • 6 AP courses offered — Elite
  • Dual-enrollment program (college credit while in HS)
Academic signals
  • AP rigor: 66th percentile nationally
  • SAT/ACT participation: Bottom 28% by test-taker volume
  • 4-yr grad rate: 87% in 2019 (Bottom 39% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)

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

California College-Going Rate

58.3% 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
58.3%
of 84 graduates

Give the same class four more months and 61.9% had enrolled — CDE publishes a 16-month window alongside the 12-month one, 52 students.

Up 19.8 points from the 2021-22 class (38.5%).

Where the 2022-23 class enrolled

In California — 46 students (54.8%)

University of California 1.2% 1
California State University 3.6% 3
California Community College 48.8% 41
California private college 1.2% 1

Out of state — 3 students (3.6%)

Out-of-state 4-year 2.4% 2
Out-of-state 2-year 1.2% 1

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.

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How Trinity High School compares for families

Stronger-than-average college-prep profile.

  • StatewideAP rigor at the 66th percentile nationally with 6 AP courses.
  • vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Shasta Charter Academy, Phoenix Charter Academy College View, Stellar Charter and 2 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.

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Academic rigor

AP + advanced-course offerings

Elite — exceptional AP + advanced course breadth

66th percentile nationally

50th 90th ↑ this school
Less rigorMore rigorMost rigor
AP courses offered
6
Math ✓ · Science ✓
Students taking AP courses
48
≈17 per 100 students · uptake, not just offerings
Advanced math classes
2
0 calculus · 2 advanced
Lab science classes
5
2 physics · 3 chemistry
Other rigor signals
Dual-enrollment program

Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). CRDC reports what's offered + enrolled — it doesn't collect AP exam pass rates (College Board owns that data and doesn't release it school-level).

SAT / ACT participation

CRDC federal data · 2020-21

Bottom 28% by test-taker volume

50th 90th
SAT/ACT test-takers
25
11th-12th graders who took 1+ college admissions test
Test-taking intensity
8.7
takers per 100 students in grades 9-12
Compared against
18,426
US high schools reporting SAT/ACT participation

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 39% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate

50th 90th
4-year graduation rate
87%
Range: 85–89%
4-year cohort size
69
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

60.9%
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.

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 4 in 10 students read and write at grade level — about the state norm.
About 1 in 5 students do math at grade level — about the state norm.
ELA — met or exceeded
n = 56
44.6%
incl. 21.4% exceeded
+17.6 pts above Trinity County median (27.0%) · CA median 54.5% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 79.4%
Math — met or exceeded
n = 55
20.0%
incl. 7.3% exceeded
+8.8 pts above Trinity County median (11.2%) · 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% +2.2
Hispanic / Latino 10% +1.4
Two or more 6%
Asian 3% +1.1
American Indian 2% -2.0
Not reported 1% -2.0
Black / African Am. 1%

Program subgroups

Socioeconomically disadv. 60% -2.9
Students w/ disabilities 10%

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.

30% of students miss 10%+ of school days — above the state's ~23%. Ask what the school is doing about engagement.
Chronic absent
29.5%
87 of 295 students

Absenteeism is down 7.0 pp since 2016-17. Engagement improving — a positive trajectory worth understanding and reinforcing.

Trinity County median
60.3% · school is better than 100% of 2 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)
346 (2018)279 (2026)
-19.4%
Grade 12 (graduating class)
86 (2018)68 (2026)
-20.9%

If this trend holds (-2.9%/yr, Total enrollment)

At per-pupil funding of $ / student:

Horizon Projected Total enrollment Change Funding impact / yr
1 yr (2027) ~271 -8 $0
3 yr (2029) ~255 -24 $0
5 yr (2031) ~240 -39 $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 Trinity High School really compare on getting kids to college?

We've ranked it #5 of 6 most similar nearby schools on UC Reach. Unlock the full snapshot to see the head-to-head — who's ahead, by how much, and where it's heading.

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

87% of students who start the year here finish it here.
Healthy
Holding share of a shrinking market.

Trinity High School's enrollment is tracking Trinity County's baseline (-20.9% vs. -21.6%), and 86.8% stability is elite. The demographic tide is the headwind; you're holding your share.

-20.9%  senior class, grade 12 (2018–2026)
-21.6%  Trinity County baseline
+0.7pp  gap vs. county
86.8%  retention (county median 68.6%)
Senior class (grade 12) — indexed to 100 at 2018
Stability rate
86.8%
264 of 304 students

40 of 304 students who enrolled at Trinity High School this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (13.2% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.

Trinity County median
68.6% · school is in the 100th percentile of 2 HS
Statewide median
87.3% · in the 48th percentile of 1,734 HS

Stability by student group

White (232) 89.2%
Socio. disadvantaged (188) 81.9%
Students w/ disabilities (37) 89.2%
Hispanic / Latino (26) 84.6%
Two or more races (22) 72.7%

Nearest peer high schools

Shasta Charter Academy 81.2% Phoenix Charter Academy College View 77.2% Stellar Charter 84.0% Pioneer Continuation High 27.6% Redding Collegiate Academy 88.6%

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 — Trinity Alps 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
$36.3M
+229.8% since FY2017
Per-pupil revenue
$52,214
695 students enrolled
Revenue mix
State: 82.5%
Local: 11.2%
Federal: 6.3%
Instruction share
57.8%
of current spending · $8,800/pupil
Total revenue by year ($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 Trinity Alps 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).

UC Reach Score methodology
UC Application Reach Score
N/A
5 applications
UC Admit Rate
N/A
— / 5 applications
UC Yield Rate
N/A
— enrolled of — admitted
Yield vs. Enrollment Reach: Yield answers "of UC admits, what % chose UC?" — denominator is just the admits. A small admitted cohort can post a low yield even when the school sends a healthy share of its class to UC.
UC Enrollment Reach Score
N/A
— enrollees / — seniors
Enrollment Reach vs. Yield: Reach answers "of the whole senior class, what share ended up at UC?" — denominator is everyone. High Yield with low Enrollment Reach is common at elite privates: most admits matriculate, but the school sends most of its class to non-UC selective colleges.
Student-Counselor Ratio
About 279 students per counselor — typical for California, though well above the 250 experts recommend.
279:1
1.0 FTE counselors · 279 students
In context: CA median 337:1 · 58 fewer students per counselor · ASCA target 250:1.
A-G Completion
Only 1 in 4 graduates finish the courses UC and CSU require — below the state norm. Worth asking how course access and planning work here.
26%
18 of 68 graduates · 2024-25 cohort
In context: CA median 55.9% · -29.4 pp vs. median.
Selective UC Reach (UCB, UCLA, UCSD, UCSB, UCI — incl. the Elite two)
N/A
Elite UC Reach (UCB + UCLA)
N/A
Senior Class Size
N/A
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Total School Enrollment
N/A
All grades · CDE Census Day
Economic Connectedness
0.64
14th percentile in CA · cross‑class friendships
Avg. Applicant GPA · top-6 UCs
4.27

UC Outcomes Trend — 2018–2023

UC Admit Rate %
UC Reach Score (where available)
UC Admits (count, right axis)

Class size from CDE grade 12 enrollment. Campus-level data: applicant and admit totals count a student once at EACH campus. A senior admitted to UCLA and UC San Diego adds 2 to the admit total, so the total can exceed the senior class — that is the metric working as defined, not an error. The admit RATE is unaffected: both its numerator and denominator are campus-level.

Campus Breakdown — 2023

Campus Applicants Admits Enrollees Admit Rate UC Reach Score Yield Avg GPA (App) Avg GPA (Adm)
UCLA → Elite 5 4.27
= UCOP-suppressed (count below 3 students, hidden for privacy — actual value is 0, 1, or 2, not necessarily zero). Campus-level totals may count one student admitted to multiple UC campuses more than once; Admit Volume metrics are not the same as UC Reach, which is measured against the whole senior class. See methodology →

What This Means

Note: the UC Reach Score sums campus-level admits across the top-six UC campuses, so a student admitted to both UCLA and UCSD is counted at each. It reflects competitive admit volume relative to class size — admit-events, not distinct students — which is why a Score can exceed 100.
Senior class size is estimated from CDE grade 12 enrollment data. Reach percentages should be interpreted as approximate.
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