Arcadia High School
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Temple City High School → Mark Keppel High School → Alhambra High School → Arroyo High School → Rosemead High School → Compare all similar →Enrollment trend & projection
If this trend holds (-1.7%/yr, Total enrollment)
At per-pupil funding of $ / student:
| Horizon | Projected Total enrollment | Change | Funding impact / yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 yr (2027) | ~2,832 | -49 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2029) | ~2,736 | -145 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2031) | ~2,644 | -237 | $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 Los Angeles County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.
Families who enroll at Arcadia High School stay (95.8% stability — elite). But enrollment is dropping 2.0× the county rate (school -16.6% vs. county -8.2%). The audit question isn't why students leave — it's why fewer families are choosing to enroll in the first place.
125 of 3,001 students who enrolled at Arcadia High School this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (4.2% 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.
Low and stable absenteeism — students are engaged and showing up. The leading indicator is healthy.
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 — Arcadia 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: 56.3%
Federal: 8.5%
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 Arcadia 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).
+32.8 pp above peer median (27.8%) · Ranked #1 of 11 similar schools
18.5%
27.8%
53.3%
60.6%
Higher than 93% of California high schools (1105 ranked, ≥50 seniors)
Arcadia High School's UC Reach of 60.6% clears the statewide top-10% cutoff (53.3%) — meaning roughly 60 top-6 UC admits per 100 seniors, well above what most California schools achieve.
Against similar schools, Arcadia High School stands out clearly — the peer-group median is 27.8%.
For context, the elite tier (top 1%) clears 102.7% — a gap of 42 pp from where this school sits.
Overall, Arcadia High School's UC Reach is higher than 93% of California high schools (1105 ranked).
| Campus | Entered | Finished in 4 yrs | Finished in 6 yrs |
|---|---|---|---|
| UC Riverside | 46 | 87% | 89% |
| UC Berkeley | 32 | 88% | 97% |
| UC Irvine | 31 | 87% | 97% |
| UC San Diego | 23 | 91% | 100% |
| UCLA | 20 | 100% | 100% |
Arcadia High School — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot
Public · Arcadia · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools
- ▸On UC Reach, Arcadia High School sits near the top of its similar-school group (ranked #1 of 11): 61% vs. a peer median of 28%.
- ▸Its UC Reach has risen 2 points since 2018.
- ▸Senior-class enrollment is down 17% (869→725 from 2018 to 2026), tracking the peer-group median of -15%.
- ▸At its recent rate (-1.7%/yr), enrollment projects to ~2736 by 2029 — about 145 fewer students than today.
Enrollment projection
That's about 145 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arcadia High School | Public | 2881 | 60.6% | -17% |
| Peer-group median | 27.8% | -15% | ||
| Temple City High School | Public | 1803 | 59.7% | -15% |
| Mark Keppel High School | Public | 2181 | 34.2% | -3% |
| Alhambra High School | Public | 2042 | 17.7% | -11% |
| Arroyo High School | Public | 1610 | 22.5% | -29% |
| Rosemead High School | Public | 1648 | 19.4% | +24% |
| Schurr High School | Public | 2049 | 17.3% | -16% |
| San Gabriel High School | Public | 1726 | 33.1% | -16% |
| Eagle Rock High School | Public | 2070 | 35.2% | -22% |
| LA Canada High School | Public | 2007 | 59.4% | -7% |
| Monrovia High School | Public | 1355 | 12.2% | -14% |
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 | 3.99 | 13.7% | 12.5% | +1.2pp | On target |
| UCLA | 3.97 | 9.3% | 9.1% | +0.1pp | On target |
| UC San Diego | 3.95 | 16.4% | 21.1% | -4.7pp | On target |
| UC Santa Barbara | 3.92 | 33.0% | 29.0% | +3.9pp | On target |
| UC Irvine | 3.94 | 17.8% | 24.1% | -6.3pp | Under |
| UC Davis | 3.94 | 40.5% | 32.5% | +8.0pp | Over |
Where Arcadia High School sits vs. all California schools ⓘ
Overall, this school admits its UC applicants in line with what their GPAs predict (21.0% actual vs. 21.0% 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 | 371 | 51 | 29 | 13.7% | 6.2% | 56.9% | 3.99 | 4.23 |
| UCLA → Elite | 421 | 39 | 22 | 9.3% | 4.8% | 56.4% | 3.97 | 4.26 |
| UC San Diego → Selective | 432 | 71 | 17 | 16.4% | 8.7% | 23.9% | 3.95 | 4.26 |
| UC Santa Barbara → Selective | 385 | 127 | 21 | 33.0% | 15.5% | 16.5% | 3.92 | 4.23 |
| UC Irvine → Selective | 432 | 77 | 23 | 17.8% | 9.4% | 29.9% | 3.94 | 4.20 |
| UC Davis → | 321 | 130 | 25 | 40.5% | 15.9% | 19.2% | 3.94 | 4.16 |