Colfax High

As a compact senior high in Colfax, California, Colfax High caters to 611 students from grades 9 through 12, operated by Placer Union High. Compared to the state average of about 838 students per school, that is 27% below typical.

Placer Union High runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 3,918 students. Colfax High is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Colfax High shows that 76% of the student body identifies as White; the rest comes out to 11% multiracial, 10% Hispanic.

On the resource side, Colfax High logs 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 22.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.2:1, putting Colfax High higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 21% of students at Colfax High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Placer County (around 33%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Colfax High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 66.8%, the actual is 59.0%, a residual of -7.8 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Placer County indicate median household earnings sit near $115,998, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Placer County runs 123 public schools (combined enrollment of about 70,590 students), of which Colfax High is one.

Nearest neighbor: Colfax Elementary, around 0.3 miles off. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Colfax High comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 43.4%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Colfax High has held roughly steady, going from 601 students in 2018 to 611 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 81% to 76% across the same window.

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