Animo Inglewood Charter Hs

Inglewood · Los Angeles County · Inglewood Unified · Public

Public Los Angeles County 🏛 Inglewood Unified → ~142 seniors CDS 1964634…
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🎓49% UC Reach

📋 At a glance

Programs & features
  • Program details not reported to CRDC
Academic signals
  • Academic signals not yet ingested for this school

Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.

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How Animo Inglewood Charter Hs compares for families

Top-tier college outcomes for California families.

  • Statewide48.6% UC Reach30.5 points above the California median of 18.1%. Ahead of 89% of California high schools.
  • vs Similar SchoolsBeats the peer median (48.6% UC Reach vs 16.0% median) across the 5 most similar nearby schools.
📊 Key takeaway · Class of 2025

Animo Inglewood Charter Hs sent 278 applications to the six most selective University of California campuses and 24.8% were admitted, producing a UC Reach of 48.6%30.5 percentage points above the California median of 18.1%, higher than 89% of California high schools. The school produces 6.3 UCLA + UC Berkeley admits per 100 seniors.

University of California outcomes · Class of 2025
UC Reach
49%
69 admits / 142 seniors
+32.6 pp above peer median (16.0%) · Ranked #1 of 4 similar schools
5-year trend
2021 · 51.9% 2025 · 48.6%
Where this sits on the California curve
CA median
18.1%
Top 10%
51.2%
This school
48.6%
0%50%100%
CA median 18.1% Top 10% ≥ 51.2% This school 48.6%

Higher than 89% of California high schools (978 ranked, ≥50 seniors)

📊 What this number means

Animo Inglewood Charter Hs's UC Reach of 48.6% is in the top quartile statewide (median 18.1%; top 25% bar 30.5%) — but it's still below the top-10% bar of 51.2%.

For context, the elite tier (top 1%) clears 97.3% — a gap of 49 pp from where this school sits.

Overall, Animo Inglewood Charter Hs's UC Reach is higher than 89% of California high schools (978 ranked).

UC Application Reach
195.8%
278 applications
Most seniors are applying to at least one of the six most selective UCs (applications counted at each campus).
In context: CA median 74.9% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 241.0% · Los Angeles Co. Top 10% ≥ 252.0% · higher than 85% of CA HS.
UC Admit Rate
24.8%
69 / 278 applications
In context: CA median 26.1% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 40.5% · higher than 43% of CA HS.
UC Yield Rate
15.9%
11 enrolled of 69 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
7.7%
11 enrollees / 142 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.
A-G Completion
93%
128 of 138 graduates · 2024-25 cohort
In context: CA median 55.9% · +36.9 pp above · Los Angeles Co. 68.2%.
Selective UC Reach (UCSD, UCSB, UCI, UCD)
40.1
per 100 seniors · campus-level total
In context: CA median 15.4 · Top 10% statewide ≥ 41.5 · higher than 90% of CA HS.
Elite UC Reach (UCB + UCLA)
6.3
per 100 seniors · campus-level total
In context: CA median 3.3 · Top 10% statewide ≥ 9.7 · higher than 75% of CA HS.
Senior Class Size
142
CDE grade 12 (exact)
Total School Enrollment
592
All grades · CDE Census Day
Economic Connectedness
1.14
59th percentile in CA · cross‑class friendships
Avg. Applicant GPA · top-6 UCs
3.82
Avg. Admitted GPA · top-6 UCs
4.10

UC funnel — which kids are getting in at what GPA

Combining the school's applicant pool GPA, admit pool GPA, actual admit rate, and statewide CA admit rates by individual GPA band, we can read which GPA tiers tend to get in — and which don't.

🎯 Who's actually getting into UC from Animo Inglewood Charter Hs
Campus 4.00+ GPA 3.70–3.99 GPA 3.30–3.69 GPA < 3.30 GPA
UC Berkeley Real shot Long odds Filtered out Filtered out
UCLA Real shot Long odds Filtered out Filtered out
UC San Diego Strong shot Moderate Long odds Filtered out
UC Santa Barbara Strong shot Real shot Long odds Filtered out
UC Irvine Strong shot Real shot Long odds Filtered out
UC Davis Strong shot Strong shot Real shot Filtered out
Strong shot = ≥30% statewide admit rate at this band · Real shot = 10–29% · Moderate = 5–9% · Long odds = 1–4% · Filtered out = under 1%. Tiers map this school's likely outcomes by GPA tier using statewide CA admit rates from UCOP 2025.

The numbers behind it

Campus Applicant GPA Admit GPA Lift Admit rate vs peer schools @ same GPA
UC Berkeley (2022) 3.81 4.23 +0.41 18.9% Peers +0.35 · steeper
UCLA 3.84 4.18 +0.34 9.5% Peers +0.37 · matches
UC San Diego 3.78 4.06 +0.28 51.3% Peers +0.38 · wider
UC Santa Barbara 3.85 4.10 +0.25 40.5% Peers +0.34 · wider
UC Irvine 3.78 4.09 +0.31 15.5% Peers +0.35 · wider
UC Davis 3.85 4.15 +0.29 37.5% Peers +0.28 · matches
📊 Statewide CA admit rates by individual GPA band, 2025 (for reference)
GPA band UCB UCLA UCSD UCSB UCI UCD
4.00+ 17.0% 15.1% 45.2% 62.3% 46.3% 65.9%
3.70–3.99 3.1% 1.6% 9.3% 17.6% 17.0% 31.1%
3.30–3.69 0.8% 0.5% 1.5% 2.8% 2.4% 10.3%
3.00–3.29 0.4% 0.3% 0.2% 0.4% 0.3% 1.9%
< 3.00 0.7% 0.4% 0.3% 0.2% 0.1% 0.7%
How we infer the tier labels: Each tier comes from the statewide CA admit rate at that GPA band at that UC. The "vs peers" column compares this school's lift (admit GPA − applicant GPA) to the average lift at ~100–300 other CA schools with similar applicant pool GPA. What this isn't: a guarantee. UC comprehensive review weighs essays, course rigor, demographics, and context-of-opportunity beyond GPA. A 3.9 with strong context can land an admit; a 4.0 with weak essays can be denied. Use as a baseline expectation, not a verdict. Per-campus year is shown when it differs from the headline year (UCOP doesn't always publish admit-GPA for every campus every year).

Where Animo Inglewood Charter Hs sits vs. all California schools

Overall, this school admits its UC applicants 5.1 points above what their GPAs predict (24.8% actual vs. 19.7% expected).

UC Outcomes Trend — 2018–2025

UC Admit Rate %
UC Reach % (where available)
UC Admits (count, right axis)

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 31 3 9.7% 2.1% 3.80
UCLA → Elite 63 6 4 9.5% 4.2% 66.7% 3.84 4.18
UC San Diego → Selective 39 20 3 51.3% 14.1% 15.0% 3.78 4.06
UC Santa Barbara → Selective 42 17 4 40.5% 12.0% 23.5% 3.85 4.10
UC Irvine → Selective 71 11 15.5% 7.7% 3.78 4.09
UC Davis → 32 12 37.5% 8.5% 3.85 4.15
= UCOP-suppressed (count below 3 students, hidden for privacy — actual value is 0, 1, or 2, not necessarily zero). 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 →

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.

ELA — met or exceeded
n = 141
73.8%
incl. 36.2% exceeded
+15.8 pts above Los Angeles County median (58.0%) · CA median 54.3% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 79.3%
Math — met or exceeded
n = 141
19.1%
incl. 5.7% exceeded
-5.9 pts vs. Los Angeles County median (25.0%) · CA median 21.1% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 53.6%

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

Hispanic / Latino 87% -2.3
Black / African Am. 12% +2.2
White 1%

Program subgroups

Students w/ disabilities 92% +1.5
Socioeconomically disadv. 9% +2.9
English learners 9%

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.

Chronic absent
19.6%
116 of 591 students

Absenteeism is up 14.7 pp since 2016-17. A rising absenteeism trend often precedes formal departure — worth investigating which subgroups are driving it.

Los Angeles County median
25.2% · school is better than 67% of 381 HS
Statewide median
22.9%
Chronic absenteeism by year (raw %)

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

Total enrollment (9–12)
634 (2018)614 (2026)
-3.2%
Grade 12 (graduating class)
149 (2018)146 (2026)
-2.0%

If this trend holds (-0.4%/yr, Total enrollment)

At per-pupil funding of $ / student:

Horizon Projected Total enrollment Change Funding impact / yr
1 yr (2027) ~612 -2 $0
3 yr (2029) ~607 -7 $0
5 yr (2031) ~602 -12 $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.

Animo Inglewood Charter Hs — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot

Public · Inglewood · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools

  • On UC Reach, Animo Inglewood Charter Hs sits near the top of its similar-school group (ranked #1 of 4): 49% vs. a peer median of 16%.
  • Its UC Reach has risen 30 points since 2018.
  • Across the top-6 UC campuses, Animo Inglewood Charter Hs is admitting at roughly +5 percentage points above what its average applicant GPA (3.817) alone would predict (25% actual vs. 20% expected). That's a meaningful signal — it can reflect UC's track record with this school's graduates, students presenting strongly in UC's holistic review (essays, EC's, context), or institutional familiarity helping at the margin. The data can't distinguish which, but the pattern itself is real and worth understanding.
  • Senior-class enrollment is down 2% (149→146 from 2018 to 2026), trailing the peer-group median of +3%.
  • In business terms, this is market-share growth during a market contraction. Los Angeles County's senior population shrank 8% over the same window — Animo Inglewood Charter Hs only shrank 2%. So Animo Inglewood Charter Hs picked up about 6 percentage points of relative share — families chose it over the alternatives even as the overall pool got smaller. That's overperforming the market in a shrinking market.
  • At its recent rate (-0.4%/yr), enrollment projects to ~607 by 2029 — about 7 fewer students than today.

Enrollment projection

614 students (2026)
~607 projected (2029)
at -0.4%/yr

That's about 7 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
Animo Inglewood Charter Hs Public 614 48.6% -2%
Peer-group median 16.0% +3%
Animo Leadership High Public 630 +13%
Lennox Mathematics, Science And Technology Academy Public 586 +1%
Alliance Judy Ivie Burton Technology Academy High Public 616 +3%
Animo South Los Angeles Charter Public 575 +4%
Stella High Charter Academy Public 567 16.0% +2%
Family First Charter Public 579 -73%
George Washington Preparatory Public 685 17.1% +27%
Hawthorne Math And Science Academy Public 573 -5%
Mervyn M Dymally High School Public 580 8.3% -2%
Alliance Renee And Meyer Luskin Academy High Public 516 +15%

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 Los Angeles County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.

Healthy
Outperforming the market — gaining relative share even as Los Angeles County contracts.

Animo Inglewood Charter Hs is shrinking (-2.0%) but Los Angeles County is shrinking faster (-8.2%), so Animo Inglewood Charter Hs is winning roughly 6.2 pp of relative market share. Combined with 96.8% stability (county median 87.3%), this reflects a school that families actively chose during a market contraction. Replicable model — worth documenting what's working.

-2.0%  school enrollment (2018–2026)
-8.2%  Los Angeles County baseline
+6.2pp  gap vs. county
96.8%  retention (county median 87.3%)
Enrollment — indexed to 100 at 2018
Stability rate by year (raw %)
Stability rate
96.8%
578 of 597 students

19 of 597 students who enrolled at Animo Inglewood Charter Hs this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (3.2% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.

Los Angeles County median
87.3% · school is in the 96th percentile of 387 HS
Statewide median
87.2% · in the 97th percentile of 1,688 HS

Stability by student group

Socio. disadvantaged (542) 96.9%
Hispanic / Latino (530) 97.2%
Black / African Am. (60) 95.0%
English learners (57) 96.5%
Students w/ disabilities (50) 92.0%

Nearest peer high schools

Animo Leadership High 97.0% Lennox Mathematics, Science And Technology Academy 99.2% Alliance Judy Ivie Burton Technology Academy High 96.5% Animo South Los Angeles Charter 86.6% Stella High Charter Academy 90.7%

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 — Inglewood 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.

Total revenue
$195.3M
+11.9% since FY2017
Per-pupil revenue
$24,562
7,950 students enrolled
Revenue mix
State: 44.5%
Local: 40.0%
Federal: 15.5%
Instruction share
57.3%
of current spending · $9,164/pupil
Long-term debt
$155.4M
+50.3% since FY2017
Total revenue by year ($M)
Total expenditure by year ($M)

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 Inglewood 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).

What This Means

A large share of the senior class applies to UC, indicating strong college-going culture and UC pipeline development.
A large share of the class applies to UC, so the admit rate runs lower than the application volume alone might suggest — expected when many students apply broadly, including to reach campuses. UC Reach (which credits every admit relative to the class) is the truer read of how the class fares: a strong Reach alongside a moderate admit rate is healthy, not a contradiction.
UC Reach is very strong — more than 49% of seniors are earning UC admission. This places the school among California's highest-performing high schools on this metric.
Strong UC Reach paired with low yield: students are earning UC admission at high rates and then enrolling elsewhere. The pattern is characteristic of competitive college-preparatory schools where many students choose more selective private colleges or out-of-state flagships over UC — UC functions as a strong backup option rather than a first choice.
The school generates broad UC access, but fewer students are reaching the most selective UC campuses (UCLA, Berkeley, UCSD, UCSB, UCI). Targeted academic enrichment and campus-fit advising may help.
UC Reach has improved meaningfully compared to the prior year — a positive trajectory worth monitoring and reinforcing.
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.
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