Anacapa School

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Enrollment trend & projection

Total enrollment (9–12)
38 (2020)29 (2025)
-23.7%
Grade 12 (graduating class)
5 (2020)2 (2025)
-60.0%

If this trend holds (-5.3%/yr, Total enrollment)

At tuition of $ / student:

Horizon Projected Total enrollment Change Tuition impact / yr
1 yr (2026) ~27 -2 $0
3 yr (2028) ~25 -4 $0
5 yr (2030) ~22 -7 $0

Straight-line extrapolation of the recent annual rate — a what-if, not a forecast of intent. Edit the figure to match your school.

Financial profile — IRS Form 990, FY2023

From 12 years of Form 990 filings via ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer (free public IRS data). The school's tax filings show financial scale, fundraising health, and endowment trajectory — signals that drive board-level conversations about tuition pricing, financial-aid capacity, and capital projects.

Total revenue
$1.7M
FY2023
Net assets (endowment + property)
$-0.5M
-181.0% since FY2012
Tuition revenue (program)
$1.1M
≈ $39502/student avg
Gifts & grants
$0.5M
fundraising
Total revenue by year ($M)
Net assets by year ($M)

Source: IRS Form 990 via ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer (EIN 953651488). Tuition-per-student is total program-service revenue divided by latest enrollment — a rough average that includes auxiliary revenue (athletics, food service, etc.); the actual published tuition can differ. Form 990 is filed annually under penalty of perjury, so the financial scale figures are authoritative.

University of California outcomes · Class of 2024
UC Reach
N/A
(class size est.)
UC Application Reach
N/A
None applications
UC Admit Rate
N/A
None / None applications
UC Yield Rate
N/A
None enrolled of None 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
N/A
None enrollees / None seniors
Enrollment Reach vs. Yield: Reach answers "of the whole senior class, what % 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.
Selective UC Reach (UCSD, UCSB, UCI, UCD)
N/A
Elite UC Reach (UCB + UCLA)
N/A
Senior Class Size
N/A
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Total School Enrollment
27
All grades · Private School Affidavit

Private-school figures come from the California Private School Affidavit. Per CDE, inclusion in private-school data is not an evaluation, approval, or endorsement of a school.

Anacapa School — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot

Private · secular · Santa Barbara · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools

  • Senior-class enrollment is down 60% (5→2 from 2020 to 2025), trailing the peer-group median of +5%.
  • At its recent rate (-5.3%/yr), enrollment projects to ~25 by 2028 — about 4 fewer students than today.

Enrollment projection

29 students (2025)
~25 projected (2028)
at -5.3%/yr

That's about 4 fewer students. At a tuition of $ per student, that's roughly $0 in annual tuition revenue at risk.

Default derived from this school's own IRS Form 990 (FY2023): program-service revenue ÷ enrollment, rounded to the nearest $1k — an authoritative average that includes auxiliary revenue (athletics, food service). Your published tuition may differ; adjust if needed. 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
Anacapa School Private · secular 29 -60%
Peer-group median 45.5% +5%
Brighton Hall School Private · secular 29 -50%
Star Prep Academy Private · secular 29 +150%
Fusion Academy - Miracle Mile Private · secular 34 -50%
Arete Preparatory Academy Private · secular 47 +56%
Fusion Academy Warner Center Private · secular 57 -36%
Midland School Private 71 45.5% +20%
Fusion Academy - Los Angeles Private · secular 74 23.1% +13%
Tree Academy Private · secular 77 12.5% +267%
Cate School Private · secular 306 50.7% -3%
Laguna Blanca School Private · secular 414 63.0% -4%

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, and religious orientation. Methodology →

Avg. Applicant GPA · top-6 UCs
3.96

GPA figures reflect 2022 — UC has not yet released applicant/admit GPA for 2024.

Campus Breakdown — 2024

Campus Applicants Admits Enrollees Admit Rate UC Reach Yield Avg GPA (App) '22 Avg GPA (Adm) '22
UC Berkeley → Elite 4.03
UCLA → Elite
UC San Diego → Selective
UC Santa Barbara → Selective 3.98
UC Davis →
⚠ 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 requires unique-student counts. See methodology →

What This Means

Note: admit counts used here are campus-level totals. A student admitted to both UCLA and UCSD is counted twice. When UCOP unique-student data becomes available it will be loaded automatically and the labels will update.
Senior class size is estimated from CDE grade 12 enrollment data. Reach percentages should be interpreted as approximate.
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