California High School
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Dougherty Valley High School → Dublin High School → Castro Valley High School → Amador Valley High School → Foothill High → Compare all similar →Enrollment trend & projection
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) | ~2,800 | +4 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2029) | ~2,808 | +12 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2031) | ~2,817 | +21 | $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 Contra Costa County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.
California High School outperformed Contra Costa County on enrollment (school +13.5% vs. county -3.2%) AND maintains 97.0% stability. Replicable model — worth documenting what's working.
88 of 2,941 students who enrolled at California High School this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (3.0% 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 — San Ramon Valley 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: 60.2%
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 San Ramon Valley 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).
-3.5 pp vs. peer median (50.0%) · Ranked #7 of 11 similar schools
18.5%
50.0%
53.3%
46.5%
Higher than 87% of California high schools (1105 ranked, ≥50 seniors)
California High School's UC Reach of 46.5% 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 56 pp from where this school sits.
Overall, California High School's UC Reach is higher than 87% of California high schools (1105 ranked).
California High School — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot
Public · San Ramon · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools
- ▸On UC Reach, California High School sits in the middle of its similar-school group (ranked #7 of 11): 46% vs. a peer median of 50%.
- ▸Its UC Reach has risen 17 points since 2018.
- ▸Senior-class enrollment is up 14% (644→731 from 2018 to 2026), outpacing the peer-group median of -3%.
- ▸Enrollment has been growing (+0.1%/yr); projects to ~2808 by 2029.
Enrollment projection
Your school vs. its 10 most similar nearby schools
| School | Type | Size | UC Reach | Enroll. trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| California High School | Public | 2796 | 46.5% | +14% |
| Peer-group median | 50.0% | -3% | ||
| Dougherty Valley High School | Public | 2872 | 63.1% | -8% |
| Dublin High School | Public | 2365 | 53.5% | +62% |
| Castro Valley High School | Public | 2919 | 37.2% | -2% |
| Amador Valley High School | Public | 2556 | 53.7% | -3% |
| Foothill High | Public | 2156 | 53.0% | +5% |
| San Ramon Valley High School | Public | 2128 | 26.5% | +10% |
| San Leandro High School | Public | 2542 | 25.2% | -8% |
| James Logan High School | Public | 3054 | 22.7% | -22% |
| American High School | Public | 2694 | 68.3% | +24% |
| Monte Vista High School | Public | 1999 | 47.1% | -7% |
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 | 3.97 | 12.4% | 12.3% | +0.1pp | On target |
| UCLA | 3.96 | 6.4% | 9.1% | -2.7pp | On target |
| UC San Diego | 3.97 | 21.5% | 20.7% | +0.8pp | On target |
| UC Santa Barbara | 3.94 | 26.9% | 29.9% | -2.9pp | On target |
| UC Irvine | 3.94 | 15.8% | 24.2% | -8.4pp | Under |
| UC Davis | 3.94 | 24.2% | 32.5% | -8.3pp | Under |
Where California High School sits vs. all California schools ⓘ
Overall, this school admits its UC applicants in line with what their GPAs predict (17.9% actual vs. 21.6% 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 | 291 | 36 | 24 | 12.4% | 5.0% | 66.7% | 3.97 | 4.23 |
| UCLA → Elite | 311 | 20 | 14 | 6.4% | 2.8% | 70.0% | 3.96 | 4.21 |
| UC San Diego → Selective | 317 | 68 | 23 | 21.5% | 9.4% | 33.8% | 3.97 | 4.23 |
| UC Santa Barbara → Selective | 312 | 84 | 12 | 26.9% | 11.7% | 14.3% | 3.94 | 4.24 |
| UC Irvine → Selective | 323 | 51 | 8 | 15.8% | 7.1% | 15.7% | 3.94 | 4.18 |
| UC Davis → | 314 | 76 | 18 | 24.2% | 10.5% | 23.7% | 3.94 | 4.18 |