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Chaparral High (continuation)

· Los Angeles County · Bonita Unified · Public

Public Los Angeles County 🏛 Bonita Unified → CDS 1964329…
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📋 At a glance

Programs & features
  • ✅ Dual-enrollment program (college credit while in HS)
Academic signals
  • 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 18% of US high schools
  • 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 64% (Bottom 13% 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 Chaparral High (continuation) compares for families

What families should know about Chaparral High (continuation).

  • vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Arrow High (continuation), San Antonio High (continuation), Mt. Olive Innovation And Technology High and 2 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.

SAT / ACT participation

CRDC federal data · 2020-21
SAT/ACT test-takers
0
11th-12th graders who took 1+ college admissions test
Test-taking intensity
0.0
takers per 100 students in grades 9-12

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?

Bottom 13% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate

50th 90th
4-year graduation rate
64%
Range: 60–69%
4-year cohort size
46
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

Title I Schoolwide eligible

≥40% FRPL — qualifies for Title I Schoolwide program

61.1%
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)

40-74% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. The district can use Title I funds across the whole school under federal Schoolwide Program rules.

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.

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 = 30
20.0%
incl. 6.7% exceeded
-38.0 pts vs. Los Angeles County median (58.0%) · CA median 54.3% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 79.3%
Math — met or exceeded
n = 27
0.0%
incl. 0.0% exceeded
-25.0 pts vs. Los Angeles County median (25.0%) · 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

Hispanic / Latino 83% -1.4
White 12% +5.5
Not reported 3% +2.1
Black / African Am. 2%

Program subgroups

Students w/ disabilities 78% +21.0
Socioeconomically disadv. 21%

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
67.5%
54 of 80 students

Roughly one in three students is chronically absent. A floor this high signals systemic engagement problems beyond what any single intervention can fix.

Los Angeles County median
25.2% · school is worse than 88% of 381 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)
58 (2018)58 (2026)
+0.0%
Grade 12 (graduating class)
34 (2018)26 (2026)
-23.5%

If this trend holds (+0.0%/yr, Total enrollment)

At per-pupil funding of $ / student:

Horizon Projected Total enrollment Change Funding impact / yr
1 yr (2027) ~58 +0 $0
3 yr (2029) ~58 +0 $0
5 yr (2031) ~58 +0 $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.

Chaparral High (continuation) — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot

Public · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools

  • Senior-class enrollment is down 24% (34→26 from 2018 to 2026), outpacing the peer-group median of -28%.

Enrollment projection

58 students (2026)
~58 projected (2029)
at +0.0%/yr

Your school vs. its 10 most similar nearby schools

School Type Size UC Reach Enroll. trend
Chaparral High (continuation) Public 58 -24%
Peer-group median -28%
Arrow High (continuation) Public 49 -36%
San Antonio High (continuation) Public 53 -20%
Mt. Olive Innovation And Technology High Public 55 -56%
Whitcomb Continuation High Public 85 +60%
Ron Hockwalt Academies (continuation) Public 44 +236%
Santana High (continuation) Public 79 -51%
Nueva Vista Continuation High Public 45 +18%
Fairvalley High (continuation) Public 101 -18%
Hillside High Public 102 -38%
Sierra High Public 122 -39%

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 Los Angeles County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.

Critical
Compounding decline on both vectors.

Enrollment -23.5% vs. county -8.2% AND stability (40.2%) below the county median. Recruitment and retention both under pressure — likely a foundational rather than tactical problem. Chronic absenteeism is also at 67.5% (up -2.7 pts from 2016-17) — engagement and demand are both signaling decline.

-23.5%  school enrollment (2018–2026)
-8.2%  Los Angeles County baseline
-15.3pp  gap vs. county
40.2%  retention (county median 87.3%)
Enrollment — indexed to 100 at 2018
Stability rate by year (raw %)
Stability rate
40.2%
35 of 87 students

52 of 87 students who enrolled at Chaparral High (continuation) this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (59.8% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.

Los Angeles County median
87.3% · school is in the 12th percentile of 387 HS
Statewide median
87.2% · in the 12th percentile of 1,688 HS

Stability by student group

Hispanic / Latino (68) 42.6%
Socio. disadvantaged (56) 42.9%
Students w/ disabilities (23) 52.2%

Nearest peer high schools

Arrow High (continuation) 24.0% San Antonio High (continuation) 59.1% Mt. Olive Innovation And Technology High 48.8% Whitcomb Continuation High 57.3% Ron Hockwalt Academies (continuation) 49.1%

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 — Bonita 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.

Total revenue
$141.5M
+8.6% since FY2017
Per-pupil revenue
$14,636
9,669 students enrolled
Revenue mix
State: 56.5%
Local: 34.0%
Federal: 9.5%
Instruction share
57.9%
of current spending · $7,425/pupil
Long-term debt
$125.5M
-8.0% since FY2017
Total revenue by year ($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 Bonita 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).

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