Tulelake High School
Tulelake · Siskiyou County · Tulelake Basin Joint Unified · Public
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- ✅ Dual-enrollment program (college credit while in HS)
- 🔢 1 calculus classes · 1 physics · 1 chemistry
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 33% of US high schools
- 📝 SAT/ACT participation: Bottom 26% by test-taker volume
- 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 90% (Bottom 49% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
🎓 Where grads go
UC admits by campus · Class of 2024
Source: University of California Office of the President, Admissions by Source School. Full campus-by-campus breakdown below.
How Tulelake High School compares for families
Real college outcomes data available below.
- ▸ Statewide10.7% UC Reach — 7.3 points below the California median of 18.0%.
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsRight at the peer median (11.8% UC Reach) across the 5 most similar nearby schools.
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🎓 Academic rigor
AP + advanced-course offerings
Moderate — some AP / advanced course access
Bottom 33% of US high schools
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 · 2020-21Bottom 26% by test-taker volume
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
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
High-poverty school
Title I Schoolwide eligible
≥75% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. These schools qualify for the highest tier of federal Title I funding and typically receive extra wraparound services. Academic outcomes vary widely — check the state assessment + grad-rate tiles.
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.
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
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 down 5.2 pp since 2016-17. Engagement improving — a positive trajectory worth understanding and reinforcing.
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 (+1.8%/yr, Total enrollment)
At per-pupil funding of $ / student:
| Horizon | Projected Total enrollment | Change | Funding impact / yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 yr (2027) | ~206 | +4 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2029) | ~213 | +11 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2031) | ~221 | +19 | $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.
Tulelake High School — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot
Public · Tulelake · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools
- ▸On UC Reach, Tulelake High School sits in the middle of its similar-school group (ranked #3 of 5): 11% vs. a peer median of 12%.
- ▸Senior-class enrollment is up 20% (30→36 from 2018 to 2026), outpacing the peer-group median of +17%.
- ▸Enrollment has been growing (+1.5%/yr); projects to ~211 by 2029.
Enrollment projection
Your school vs. its 10 most similar nearby schools
| School | Type | Size | UC Reach | Enroll. trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tulelake High School | Public | 202 | 10.7% | +20% |
| Peer-group median | 11.8% | +17% | ||
| Pioneer Continuation High | Public | 202 | — | +13% |
| Northern Summit Academy Shasta | Public | 209 | — | +48% |
| Los Molinos High School | Public | 213 | 5.6% | -2% |
| Butte Valley High School | Public | 98 | — | +10% |
| Fall River Junior-Senior Hs | Public | 218 | — | +27% |
| Golden Eagle Charter School | Public | 187 | 10.0% | +67% |
| Etna Union High School | Public | 181 | 13.6% | -36% |
| Redding Collegiate Academy | Public | 229 | — | +343% |
| Weed High School | Public | 177 | 14.6% | +21% |
| Burney Junior-Senior Hs | Public | 231 | — | -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 Siskiyou County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.
Tulelake High School outperformed Siskiyou County on enrollment (school +20.0% vs. county +14.3%) AND maintains 90.1% stability. Replicable model — worth documenting what's working.
14 of 141 students who enrolled at Tulelake High School this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (9.9% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.
Stability by student group
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.
District financial profile — Tulelake Basin 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.
Local: 22.6%
Federal: 15.7%
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 Tulelake Basin 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).
Tulelake High School sent 11 applications to the six most selective University of California campuses and 27.3% were admitted, producing a UC Reach of 10.7% — 7.3 percentage points below the California median of 18.0%, higher than 21% of California high schools..
-1.1 pp vs. peer median (11.8%) · Ranked #3 of 5 similar schools
18.0%
11.8%
49.0%
10.7%
Higher than 21% of California high schools (978 ranked, ≥50 seniors)
Tulelake High School's UC Reach of 10.7% is below the California median (18.0%). The top 10% of CA schools achieve 49.0% or higher.
Overall, Tulelake High School's UC Reach is higher than 21% of California high schools (978 ranked).
UC Outcomes Trend — 2018–2024
Class size from CDE grade 12 enrollment. Campus-level data — applicant/admit totals may count a student at multiple campuses more than once.
Campus Breakdown — 2024
| Campus | Applicants | Admits | Enrollees | Admit Rate | UC Reach | Yield | Avg GPA (App) | Avg GPA (Adm) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UC Berkeley → Elite | 6 | —† | —† | —† | —† | — | 3.83 | —† |
| UCLA → Elite | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| UC San Diego → Selective | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| UC Santa Barbara → Selective | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| UC Irvine → Selective | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| UC Davis → | 5 | 3 | —† | 60.0% | 10.7% | — | 3.72 | —† |
What This Means
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