Center High School
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Foothill High → Oakmont High School → El Camino Fundamental Hs → Rio Linda Senior High School → Rio Linda High → Compare all similar →Enrollment trend & projection
If this trend holds (-0.3%/yr, Total enrollment)
At per-pupil funding of $ / student:
| Horizon | Projected Total enrollment | Change | Funding impact / yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 yr (2027) | ~1,254 | -3 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2029) | ~1,247 | -10 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2031) | ~1,241 | -16 | $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 Sacramento County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.
Center High School's enrollment is tracking Sacramento County's baseline (+3.4% vs. +3.0%), and 84.2% stability is elite. The demographic tide is the headwind; you're holding your share. Chronic absenteeism is rising (27.0%, +12.7 pts since 2016-17) — a watch signal worth monitoring as a leading indicator.
224 of 1,419 students who enrolled at Center High School this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (15.8% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.
Stability by student group
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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 12.7 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 — Center Joint 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: 36.5%
Federal: 10.2%
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 Center Joint 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).
-2.4 pp vs. peer median (11.2%) · Ranked #9 of 10 similar schools
18.5%
11.2%
53.3%
8.8%
Higher than 14% of California high schools (1105 ranked, ≥50 seniors)
Center High School's UC Reach of 8.8% is below the California median (18.5%). The top 10% of CA schools achieve 53.3% or higher.
Overall, Center High School's UC Reach is higher than 14% of California high schools (1105 ranked).
Center High School — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot
Public · Antelope · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools
- ▸On UC Reach, Center High School sits near the bottom of its similar-school group (ranked #9 of 10): 9% vs. a peer median of 11%.
- ▸Its UC Reach has risen 3 points since 2018.
- ▸Senior-class enrollment is up 3% (290→300 from 2018 to 2026), outpacing the peer-group median of -0%.
- ▸At its recent rate (-0.3%/yr), enrollment projects to ~1247 by 2029 — about 10 fewer students than today.
Enrollment projection
That's about 10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Center High School | Public | 1257 | 8.8% | +3% |
| Peer-group median | 11.2% | -0% | ||
| Foothill High | Public | 1432 | 11.2% | +34% |
| Oakmont High School | Public | 1283 | 15.7% | -30% |
| El Camino Fundamental Hs | Public | 1171 | 14.3% | -6% |
| Rio Linda Senior High School | Public | 1641 | 9.4% | +1% |
| Rio Linda High | Public | 1641 | — | -1% |
| Antelope High School | Public | 1781 | 14.3% | +1% |
| Roseville High School | Public | 1458 | 13.3% | -25% |
| Casa Roble Fundamental Hs | Public | 1213 | 10.9% | +4% |
| Del Campo High School | Public | 1531 | 7.7% | -4% |
| Natomas High School | Public | 1094 | 10.0% | +30% |
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 San Diego | 3.79 | 29.2% | 25.1% | +4.1pp | On target |
| UC Santa Barbara | 3.67 | 85.7% | 27.4% | +58.3pp | Over |
| UC Irvine | 3.81 | 16.7% | 20.3% | -3.6pp | On target |
| UC Davis | 3.73 | 30.8% | 32.1% | -1.3pp | On target |
Where Center High School sits vs. all California schools ⓘ
Overall, this school admits its UC applicants in line with what their GPAs predict (31.8% actual vs. 27.4% 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 | 30 | — | — | — | — | — | 3.82 | — |
| UCLA → Elite | 17 | — | — | — | — | — | 3.78 | — |
| UC San Diego → Selective | 24 | 7 | — | 29.2% | 2.2% | — | 3.79 | 4.17 |
| UC Santa Barbara → Selective | 7 | 6 | 4 | 85.7% | 1.9% | 66.7% | 3.67 | 3.80 |
| UC Irvine → Selective | 18 | 3 | — | 16.7% | 0.9% | — | 3.81 | — |
| UC Davis → | 39 | 12 | 8 | 30.8% | 3.8% | 66.7% | 3.73 | 4.06 |