Bret Harte Union High School
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Calaveras High School → Summerville High → Sonora High → Gold Rush Home Study Charter → Argonaut High School → Compare all similar →Enrollment trend & projection
If this trend holds (-1.5%/yr, Total enrollment)
At per-pupil funding of $ / student:
| Horizon | Projected Total enrollment | Change | Funding impact / yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 yr (2027) | ~563 | -9 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2029) | ~546 | -26 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2031) | ~530 | -42 | $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 Calaveras County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.
Bret Harte Union High School's enrollment is tracking Calaveras County's baseline (-17.6% vs. -16.3%), and 90.7% stability is elite. The demographic tide is the headwind; you're holding your share.
53 of 572 students who enrolled at Bret Harte Union High School this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (9.3% 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 6.7 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 — Bret Harte Union High (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: 87.0%
Federal: 4.7%
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 Bret Harte Union High 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).
-3.7 pp vs. peer median (6.8%) · Ranked #7 of 8 similar schools
18.5%
6.8%
53.3%
3.1%
Higher than 1% of California high schools (1105 ranked, ≥50 seniors)
Bret Harte Union High School's UC Reach of 3.1% is below the California median (18.5%). The top 10% of CA schools achieve 53.3% or higher.
Overall, Bret Harte Union High School's UC Reach is higher than 1% of California high schools (1105 ranked).
Bret Harte Union High School — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot
Public · Altaville · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools
- ▸On UC Reach, Bret Harte Union High School sits near the bottom of its similar-school group (ranked #7 of 8): 3% vs. a peer median of 7%.
- ▸Its UC Reach has slipped 6 points since 2018 — worth watching.
- ▸Senior-class enrollment is down 18% (142→117 from 2018 to 2026), trailing the peer-group median of -9%.
- ▸At its recent rate (-1.5%/yr), enrollment projects to ~546 by 2029 — about 26 fewer students than today.
Enrollment projection
That's about 26 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bret Harte Union High School | Public | 572 | 3.1% | -18% |
| Peer-group median | 6.8% | -9% | ||
| Calaveras High School | Public | 667 | 3.2% | -35% |
| Summerville High | Public | 563 | — | +9% |
| Sonora High | Public | 837 | 12.9% | -8% |
| Gold Rush Home Study Charter | Public | 421 | — | -15% |
| Argonaut High School | Public | 576 | 6.8% | -10% |
| Amador High School | Public | 581 | 5.9% | +2% |
| Waterford High School | Public | 578 | 2.4% | +36% |
| Linden High School | Public | 774 | 7.3% | +21% |
| Connecting Waters Charter Sch | Public | 697 | 7.0% | -66% |
| Stanislaus Alternative Charter | Public | 565 | — | -69% |
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 Santa Barbara | 3.86 | 57.1% | 27.5% | +29.7pp | Over |
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 | 6 | — | — | — | — | — | 3.77 | — |
| UCLA → Elite | 5 | — | — | — | — | — | 3.92 | — |
| UC San Diego → Selective | 5 | — | — | — | — | — | 3.80 | — |
| UC Santa Barbara → Selective | 7 | 4 | — | 57.1% | 3.1% | — | 3.86 | — |
| UC Irvine → Selective | 5 | — | — | — | — | — | 3.69 | — |
| UC Davis → | 5 | — | — | — | — | — | 3.84 | — |