Point Arena Joint Union High operates 2 public schools serving 130 students, placing it among the smallest districts in California. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 high schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Mendocino County.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 2 schools offering Advanced Placement (3 AP courses district-wide), a 69.5:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 55.0% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 57.0% Hispanic or Latino, 26.6% White across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Point Arena High, enrolling 131 students (94% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is South Coast Continuation, at 8 students, a 16x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses grew 10% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (130 to 143 students), while the student-teacher ratio held roughly steady, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Point Arena High accounts for 94.2% of all Point Arena Joint Union High student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Point Arena Joint Union High a distant remainder — means Point Arena Joint Union High-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: high. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how the district allocates programs, capital, or staff. Because it contains a majority of the affected population, enrollment-weighted aggregates will sit closer to this entity's reported fields than to those of smaller peers; an unweighted entity count answers a different question.
Point Arena Joint Union High reports 52.0% free-lunch eligibility
The reported share clears the 50% majority mark. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.
Point Arena Joint Union High student-counselor ratio is 70:1 — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment, districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted Values this far below typical often correlate with unusually small scale or population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se — worth checking whether the underlying denominator is itself an outlier.
Point Arena Joint Union High chronic absenteeism rate is 55.0% — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Values this far above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.