Campolindo High School

Moraga · Contra Costa County · Acalanes Union High · Public

Public Contra Costa County 🏛 Acalanes Union High → ~324 seniors CDS 0761630…
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Top 10% UC Reach in California 📖24 AP courses 🎓99% 4-yr grad rate 📘Top 5% ELA proficiency in CA 🧮Top 5% Math proficiency in CA 🎓Top 5 UC Reach in Contra Costa +4 more

📋 At a glance

Programs & features
  • 📚 24 AP courses offered — Elite
  • 🔢 7 calculus classes · 8 physics · 12 chemistry
Academic signals
  • 🎓 AP rigor: 70th percentile nationally
  • 📝 SAT/ACT participation: 76th percentile by test-taker volume
  • 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 99% (Top 0.7% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)

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

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How Campolindo High School compares for families

Top-tier college outcomes for California families.

  • Statewide57.1% UC Reach39.0 points above the California median of 18.1%. Ahead of 93% of California high schools.
  • Locally📘 Top 5% in California on ELA proficiency — plus 6 more top-ranks.
  • vs Similar SchoolsBeats the peer median (57.1% UC Reach vs 44.1% median) across the 5 most similar nearby schools.

🎓 Academic rigor

AP + advanced-course offerings

Elite — exceptional AP + advanced course breadth

70th percentile nationally

50th 90th ↑ this school
Less rigorMore rigorMost rigor
AP courses offered
24
Subject breadth not reported
Advanced math classes
20
7 calculus · 13 advanced
Lab science classes
20
8 physics · 12 chemistry
Other rigor signals
No dual-enrollment or gifted program reported

Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). CRDC reports what's offered + enrolled — it doesn't collect AP exam pass rates (College Board owns that data and doesn't release it school-level).

SAT / ACT participation

CRDC federal data · 2020-21

76th percentile by test-taker volume

50th 90th
SAT/ACT test-takers
203
11th-12th graders who took 1+ college admissions test
Test-taking intensity
15.1
takers per 100 students in grades 9-12
Compared against
18,426
US high schools reporting SAT/ACT participation

Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). Volume — not score — is what's reported here. A higher count means more students at this school are entering the college admissions pipeline. Note: 2020-21 was COVID-disrupted; some districts (especially those that stayed remote longer) report unusually low or zero takers.

🎓 4-year graduation rate · federal EDFacts

What % of students graduate on time?

Top 0.7% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate

50th 90th
4-year graduation rate
99%
Range: 99–100%
4-year cohort size
304
Students in the 9th-grade entry class tracked over 4 years
Compared against
17,988
US high schools reporting 4-year ACGR

Source: federal EDFacts ACGR (Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate), 2019 vintage via Urban Institute. EDFacts publishes a range (low-high) to preserve privacy on small cohorts; we display the midpoint.

🏛️ Federal Title I context

Lower-need school

Not Title I eligible (FRPL < 25%)

5.4%
FRPL rate — % of students who qualify for the federal Free or Reduced-Price Lunch program. This is the underlying federal income-eligibility signal Title I designations are computed from (ESEA Sec. 1113).
0% (no FRPL) 35% TA · 40% Schoolwide 100% (universal FRPL)

<25% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. Well below the Title I threshold; expect a higher-income student body on average.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, free/reduced-price lunch eligibility. The actual Title I designation is a district decision and may differ from eligibility — but the federal eligibility math is what we show here. We don't claim to assert whether the district formally chose to enroll this school in Title I.

📊 Key takeaway · Class of 2025

Campolindo High School sent 881 applications to the six most selective University of California campuses and 21.0% were admitted, producing a UC Reach of 57.1%39.0 percentage points above the California median of 18.1%, higher than 93% of California high schools. The school produces 11.4 UCLA + UC Berkeley admits per 100 seniors.

University of California outcomes · Class of 2025
★ Top 10% UC Reach
UC Reach
57%
185 admits / 324 seniors
+13.0 pp above peer median (44.1%) · Ranked #2 of 10 similar schools
5-year trend
2021 · 45.3% 2025 · 57.1%
Where this sits on the California curve
CA median
18.1%
Peer median
44.1%
Top 10%
51.2%
This school
57.1%
0%50%100%
CA median 18.1% Top 10% ≥ 51.2% This school 57.1%

Higher than 93% of California high schools (978 ranked, ≥50 seniors)

📊 What this number means

Campolindo High School's UC Reach of 57.1% clears the statewide top-10% cutoff (51.2%) — meaning roughly 57 top-6 UC admits per 100 seniors, well above what most California schools achieve.

In Contra Costa County — a competitive market where the median is already 25.1% — this still clears the county top-10% bar (56.9%).

For context, the elite tier (top 1%) clears 97.3% — a gap of 40 pp from where this school sits.

Overall, Campolindo High School's UC Reach is higher than 93% of California high schools (978 ranked).

UC Application Reach
271.9%
881 applications
Strong UC pursuit. The typical senior is applying to about 3 top-6 UC campuses — a signal of a college-driven student body.
In context: CA median 74.9% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 241.0% · Contra Costa Co. Top 10% ≥ 271.6% · higher than 93% of CA HS.
UC Admit Rate
21.0%
185 / 881 applications
In context: CA median 26.1% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 40.5% · higher than 21% of CA HS.
UC Yield Rate
27.6%
51 enrolled of 185 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
15.7%
51 enrollees / 324 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.
Student-Counselor Ratio
342:1
4.0 FTE counselors · 1,369 students
In context: CA median 338:1 · ASCA target 250:1.
A-G Completion
82%
258 of 316 graduates · 2024-25 cohort
In context: CA median 55.9% · +25.7 pp above.
UC 6-Yr Grad Rate
88%
73% finished in 4 yrs · N=59 entered 2019
In context: CA median 88.6%.
Selective UC Reach (UCSD, UCSB, UCI, UCD)
42.3
per 100 seniors · campus-level total
In context: CA median 15.4 · Top 10% statewide ≥ 41.5 · higher than 91% of CA HS.
Elite UC Reach (UCB + UCLA)
11.4
per 100 seniors · campus-level total
In context: CA median 3.3 · Top 10% statewide ≥ 9.7 · higher than 93% of CA HS.
Senior Class Size
324
CDE grade 12 (exact)
Total School Enrollment
1,340
All grades · CDE Census Day
Economic Connectedness
1.83
98th percentile in CA · cross‑class friendships
Avg. Applicant GPA · top-6 UCs
4.02
Avg. Admitted GPA · top-6 UCs
4.18

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 Campolindo High School
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 4.03 4.19 +0.16 16.1% Peers +0.21 · wider
UCLA 4.05 4.20 +0.14 8.1% Peers +0.23 · wider
UC San Diego 4.02 4.21 +0.20 20.6% Peers +0.26 · wider
UC Santa Barbara 3.99 4.23 +0.24 28.0% Peers +0.27 · matches
UC Irvine 4.02 4.14 +0.12 18.7% Peers +0.21 · wider
UC Davis 4.02 4.13 +0.11 34.5% Peers +0.20 · wider
📊 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 Campolindo 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. 22.4% 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 155 25 15 16.1% 7.7% 60.0% 4.03 4.19
UCLA → Elite 148 12 7 8.1% 3.7% 58.3% 4.05 4.20
UC San Diego → Selective 141 29 5 20.6% 9.0% 17.2% 4.02 4.21
UC Santa Barbara → Selective 164 46 6 28.0% 14.2% 13.0% 3.99 4.23
UC Irvine → Selective 134 25 9 18.7% 7.7% 36.0% 4.02 4.14
UC Davis → 139 48 9 34.5% 14.8% 18.8% 4.02 4.13
= 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 = 329
85.4%
incl. 54.4% exceeded
★ Top 10% CA
+33.6 pts above Contra Costa County median (51.8%) · CA median 54.3% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 79.3%
Math — met or exceeded
n = 328
70.1%
incl. 46.6% exceeded
★ Top 10% CA
+47.1 pts above Contra Costa County median (23.0%) · 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

White 53% -7.4
Asian 17% +2.5
Two or more 16% +3.1
Hispanic / Latino 10% +1.2
Filipino 2%
Black / African Am. 1%
Not reported 0%

Program subgroups

Socioeconomically disadv. 14% +1.5
Students w/ disabilities 6% +1.4

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
9.8%
132 of 1,351 students

Absenteeism is up 3.4 pp since 2016-17. A rising absenteeism trend often precedes formal departure — worth investigating which subgroups are driving it.

Contra Costa County median
22.1% · school is better than 84% of 45 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)
1,376 (2018)1,369 (2026)
-0.5%
Grade 12 (graduating class)
317 (2018)351 (2026)
+10.7%

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) ~1,368 -1 $0
3 yr (2029) ~1,366 -3 $0
5 yr (2031) ~1,365 -4 $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.

Campolindo High School — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot

Public · Moraga · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools

  • On UC Reach, Campolindo High School sits near the top of its similar-school group (ranked #2 of 10): 57% vs. a peer median of 44%.
  • Campolindo High School's UC Reach has declined meaningfully from a peak of 70% in 2022 to 57% in 2025 — a 13-point drop that warrants attention. Multi-year UC Reach declines of this size often signal something specific (leadership change, comp-program shift, demographic move) rather than year-to-year noise. This is the kind of trajectory an Enrollment Trend Audit unpacks.
  • Senior-class enrollment is up 11% (317→351 from 2018 to 2026), outpacing the peer-group median of -5%.
  • At its recent rate (-0.1%/yr), enrollment projects to ~1366 by 2029 — about 3 fewer students than today.

Enrollment projection

1369 students (2026)
~1366 projected (2029)
at -0.1%/yr

That's about 3 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
Campolindo High School Public 1369 57.1% +11%
Peer-group median 44.1% -5%
Acalanes High School Public 1246 46.4% -12%
Miramonte High School Public 1168 57.3% -9%
Las Lomas High School Public 1509 44.1% +2%
Skyline High School Public 1216 45.5% -24%
Mt. Diablo High Public 1389 +3%
El Cerrito High School Public 1361 39.3% -6%
Northgate High School Public 1578 41.4% -14%
Fremont High School Public 1194 9.8% +83%
Oakland High School Public 1624 33.5% +10%
Oakland Technical High School Public 1815 45.4% -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. 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 Contra Costa County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.

Healthy
Best in class — winning on demand and retention.

Campolindo High School outperformed Contra Costa County on enrollment (school +10.7% vs. county -3.2%) AND maintains 97.9% stability. Replicable model — worth documenting what's working.

+10.7%  school enrollment (2018–2026)
-3.2%  Contra Costa County baseline
+13.9pp  gap vs. county
97.9%  retention (county median 89.5%)
Enrollment — indexed to 100 at 2018
Stability rate by year (raw %)
Stability rate
97.9%
1,326 of 1,354 students

28 of 1,354 students who enrolled at Campolindo High School this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (2.1% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.

Contra Costa County median
89.5% · school is in the 98th percentile of 45 HS
Statewide median
87.2% · in the 99th percentile of 1,688 HS

Stability by student group

White (770) 97.4%
Asian (222) 97.7%
Students w/ disabilities (192) 93.2%
Two or more races (189) 100.0%
Hispanic / Latino (125) 98.4%
Socio. disadvantaged (94) 97.9%

Nearest peer high schools

Acalanes High School 96.9% Miramonte High School 97.8% Las Lomas High School 96.0% Skyline High School 84.3% Mt. Diablo High 78.4%

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 — Acalanes 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.

Total revenue
$109.3M
+14.7% since FY2017
Per-pupil revenue
$19,753
5,535 students enrolled
Revenue mix
State: 14.0%
Local: 82.5%
Federal: 3.6%
Instruction share
57.9%
of current spending · $9,697/pupil
Long-term debt
$222.2M
-3.5% since FY2017
Total revenue by year ($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 Acalanes 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).

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 57% 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 declined meaningfully year-over-year. This should be reviewed in context of applicant volume, GPA trends, course rigor changes, and peer-school performance before drawing conclusions.
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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