Albany High School
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If this trend holds (-0.1%/yr, Total enrollment)
At per-pupil funding of $ / student:
| Horizon | Projected Total enrollment | Change | Funding impact / yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 yr (2027) | ~1,122 | -1 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2029) | ~1,121 | -2 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2031) | ~1,119 | -4 | $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.
Enrollment stability & demand — 2024-25
Two complementary signals: retention (do students stay once enrolled?) and demand (are families choosing the school?). Read against the Alameda County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.
Albany High School outperformed Alameda County on enrollment (school +14.9% vs. county +0.6%) AND maintains 97.2% stability. Replicable model — worth documenting what's working.
32 of 1,144 students who enrolled at Albany High School this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (2.8% 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.
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 up 10.1 pp since 2016-17. A rising absenteeism trend often precedes formal departure — worth investigating which subgroups are driving it.
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).
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.
District financial profile — Albany City 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: 33.9%
Federal: 11.6%
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 Albany City 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).
+10.1 pp above peer median (38.2%) · Ranked #2 of 10 similar schools
18.5%
38.2%
53.3%
48.3%
Higher than 88% of California high schools (1105 ranked, ≥50 seniors)
Albany High School's UC Reach of 48.3% is in the top quartile statewide (median 18.5%; top 25% bar 32.0%) — but it's still below the top-10% bar of 53.3%.
For context, the elite tier (top 1%) clears 102.7% — a gap of 54 pp from where this school sits.
Overall, Albany High School's UC Reach is higher than 88% of California high schools (1105 ranked).
Albany High School — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot
Public · Albany · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools
- ▸On UC Reach, Albany High School sits near the top of its similar-school group (ranked #2 of 10): 48% vs. a peer median of 38%.
- ▸Its UC Reach has slipped 3 points since 2018 — worth watching.
- ▸Across the top-6 UC campuses, Albany High School is admitting at roughly -6 percentage points below what its average applicant GPA (3.962) alone would predict (15% actual vs. 22% expected). That's worth understanding — it can reflect grade inflation that UC sees through, weaker holistic-review materials at the margin, or applicants concentrating at more selective campuses than typical. Not a verdict; a signal.
- ▸Senior-class enrollment is up 15% (269→309 from 2018 to 2026), outpacing the peer-group median of -10%.
- ▸At its recent rate (-0.1%/yr), enrollment projects to ~1121 by 2029 — about 2 fewer students than today.
Enrollment projection
That's about 2 fewer students. At per-student funding of $ per student, that's roughly $0 in annual state funding at risk.
Default = California's LCFF base grant for grades 9–12 ($12,423 per ADA) — adjust to your district's actual per-pupil figure. Projection extrapolates the recent annual rate — not a forecast of intent.
Your school vs. its 10 most similar nearby schools
| School | Type | Size | UC Reach | Enroll. trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Albany High School | Public | 1123 | 48.3% | +15% |
| Peer-group median | 38.2% | -10% | ||
| El Cerrito High School | Public | 1361 | 39.3% | -6% |
| Richmond High School | Public | 1233 | 14.2% | -12% |
| De Anza High School | Public | 1023 | 12.5% | -20% |
| Pinole Valley High School | Public | 1224 | 13.2% | +10% |
| Making Waves Academy | Public | 1006 | 38.2% | +63% |
| Miramonte High School | Public | 1168 | 57.3% | -9% |
| Fremont High School | Public | 1194 | 9.8% | +83% |
| Skyline High School | Public | 1216 | 45.5% | -24% |
| Encinal Junior/Senior High | Public | 1342 | — | -16% |
| Acalanes High School | Public | 1246 | 46.4% | -12% |
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 →
Admit rate vs. CA peer average, by campus ⓘ
How does this school's admit rate at each UC compare to other CA schools whose applicant pool averages the same GPA?
| Campus | Applicant GPA (avg) | Actual admit rate | CA peer avg | Δ | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UC Berkeley | 3.96 | 8.5% | 12.1% | -3.6pp | On target |
| UCLA | 3.98 | 7.8% | 9.2% | -1.4pp | On target |
| UC San Diego | 3.97 | 12.3% | 20.5% | -8.2pp | Under |
| UC Santa Barbara | 3.96 | 19.1% | 30.6% | -11.5pp | Under |
| UC Irvine | 3.96 | 9.2% | 24.9% | -15.7pp | Under |
| UC Davis | 3.94 | 33.7% | 32.5% | +1.3pp | On target |
Where Albany High School sits vs. all California schools ⓘ
Overall, this school admits its UC applicants 6.4 points below what their GPAs predict (15.3% actual vs. 21.7% expected).
UC Outcomes Trend — 2018–2025
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 — 2025
| Campus | Applicants | Admits | Enrollees | Admit Rate | UC Reach | Yield | Avg GPA (App) | Avg GPA (Adm) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UC Berkeley → Elite | 153 | 13 | 6 | 8.5% | 4.4% | 46.2% | 3.96 | 4.17 |
| UCLA → Elite | 154 | 12 | 6 | 7.8% | 4.1% | 50.0% | 3.98 | 4.13 |
| UC San Diego → Selective | 154 | 19 | 6 | 12.3% | 6.5% | 31.6% | 3.97 | 4.22 |
| UC Santa Barbara → Selective | 152 | 29 | 6 | 19.1% | 9.9% | 20.7% | 3.96 | 4.25 |
| UC Irvine → Selective | 152 | 14 | 3 | 9.2% | 4.8% | 21.4% | 3.96 | 4.08 |
| UC Davis → | 163 | 55 | 23 | 33.7% | 18.7% | 41.8% | 3.94 | 4.14 |