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Citrus Springs Charter

· Orange County · Orange County Department of Education · Public

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🎯Top 5% Attendance (lowest chronic absenteeism) in CA 🎯Top 3 Attendance (lowest chronic absenteeism) in Orange

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Programs & features
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Academic signals
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Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.

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How Citrus Springs Charter compares for families

What families should know about Citrus Springs Charter.

  • Locally🎯 Top 5% in California on Attendance (lowest chronic absenteeism) — plus 1 more top-rank.
  • vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: River Springs Charter School, Jcs - Pine Hills, Temecula Preparatory School and 2 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.

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 50% +17.5
White 26% -21.9
Black / African Am. 10%
Asian 6% -1.7
Two or more 6% -1.7
Pacific Islander 1%
American Indian 1%

Program subgroups

Students w/ disabilities 67%

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
2.9%
1 of 35 students

Low and stable absenteeism — students are engaged and showing up. The leading indicator is healthy.

Orange County median
17.9% · school is better than 99% of 94 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)
263 (2018)910 (2026)
+246.0%
Grade 12 (graduating class)
5 (2018)4 (2026)
-20.0%

If this trend holds (+16.8%/yr, Total enrollment)

At per-pupil funding of $ / student:

Horizon Projected Total enrollment Change Funding impact / yr
1 yr (2027) ~1,063 +153 $0
3 yr (2029) ~1,449 +539 $0
5 yr (2031) ~1,977 +1067 $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.

Citrus Springs Charter — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot

Public · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools

  • Senior-class enrollment is down 20% (5→4 from 2018 to 2026), trailing the peer-group median of -4%.
  • Enrollment has been growing (+16.8%/yr); projects to ~1449 by 2029.

Enrollment projection

910 students (2026)
~1449 projected (2029)
at +16.8%/yr

Your school vs. its 10 most similar nearby schools

School Type Size UC Reach Enroll. trend
Citrus Springs Charter Public 910 -20%
Peer-group median 13.4% -4%
River Springs Charter School Public 1132 4.3% -6%
Jcs - Pine Hills Public 747 +27%
Temecula Preparatory School Public 1087 43.1% +16%
Empire Springs Charter School Public 519 +15%
Western Center Academy Public 770 26.0% +41%
Valley Center High School Public 1019 10.5% -12%
Murrieta Mesa High School Public 2026 13.4% -12%
California Military Institute Public 1029 9.6% -2%
Murrieta Valley High School Public 2174 17.5% -11%
Siatech Public 765 -81%

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 Orange 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 -20.0% vs. county -7.1% AND stability (77.8%) below the county median. Recruitment and retention both under pressure — likely a foundational rather than tactical problem.

-20.0%  school enrollment (2018–2026)
-7.1%  Orange County baseline
-12.9pp  gap vs. county
77.8%  retention (county median 91.8%)
Enrollment — indexed to 100 at 2018
Stability rate by year (raw %)
Stability rate
77.8%
28 of 36 students

8 of 36 students who enrolled at Citrus Springs Charter this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (22.2% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.

Orange County median
91.8% · school is in the 19th percentile of 94 HS
Statewide median
87.2% · in the 27th percentile of 1,688 HS

Stability by student group

Socio. disadvantaged (369) 71.0%
Hispanic / Latino (364) 73.4%
White (97) 81.4%
Students w/ disabilities (80) 75.0%
English learners (37) 62.2%
Two or more races (25) 60.0%

Nearest peer high schools

River Springs Charter School 77.5% Jcs - Pine Hills 78.6% Temecula Preparatory School 94.8% Empire Springs Charter School 59.8% Western Center Academy 98.1%

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 — Orange County Department of Education (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
$387.5M
+24.1% since FY2017
Per-pupil revenue
$139,729
2,773 students enrolled
Revenue mix
State: 22.4%
Local: 57.3%
Federal: 20.3%
Instruction share
30.6%
of current spending · $23,283/pupil
Long-term debt
$9.9M
-23.3% since FY2017
Total revenue by year ($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 Orange County Department of Education 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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