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City Arts & Leadership Academy
· San Francisco County · San Francisco Unified · Public
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Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How City Arts & Leadership Academy compares for families
What families should know about City Arts & Leadership Academy.
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Marshall (thurgood) High, John O'connell High School, Gateway High School and 2 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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.
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 20.5 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).
Enrollment trend & projection
If this trend holds (+4.0%/yr, Total enrollment)
At per-pupil funding of $ / student:
| Horizon | Projected Total enrollment | Change | Funding impact / yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 yr (2027) | ~409 | +16 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2029) | ~442 | +49 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2031) | ~477 | +84 | $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.
City Arts & Leadership Academy — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot
Public · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools
- ▸Senior-class enrollment is up 33% (63→84 from 2018 to 2026), outpacing the peer-group median of -4%.
- ▸Enrollment has been growing (+4.0%/yr); projects to ~442 by 2029.
Enrollment projection
Your school vs. its 10 most similar nearby schools
| School | Type | Size | UC Reach | Enroll. trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| City Arts & Leadership Academy | Public | 393 | — | +33% |
| Peer-group median | 25.9% | -4% | ||
| Marshall (thurgood) High | Public | 420 | — | +15% |
| John O'connell High School | Public | 475 | 11.3% | -12% |
| Gateway High School | Public | 475 | 39.2% | -1% |
| Oceana High School | Public | 450 | 50.7% | -26% |
| Raoul Wallenberg Traditional | Public | 504 | 32.4% | -21% |
| S.f. International High | Public | 271 | — | -7% |
| Nea Community Learning Center | Public | 442 | 16.0% | +7% |
| Latitude 37.8 High | Public | 396 | — | +129% |
| Asawa (ruth) Sf Sch Of The Arts, A Public School | Public | 664 | — | -10% |
| Arise High School | Public | 410 | 19.4% | +77% |
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 San Francisco County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.
On the surface City Arts & Leadership Academy looks fine — enrollment is +33.3% vs. San Francisco County -1.6%, and 92.2% of students stay through year-end. But <strong>chronic absenteeism is at 40.7%, up +20.5 pts since 2016-17 (county median 38.8%). Disengagement leads departure — families pull back from the day-to-day before they formally leave. The demand signal usually follows within 2–3 years.
32 of 411 students who enrolled at City Arts & Leadership Academy this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (7.8% 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.
District financial profile — San Francisco 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: 56.0%
Federal: 7.8%
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 Francisco 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).