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Orland High School → Red Bluff High School → Chico High → Pleasant Valley Sr High School → West Valley Early College High → Compare all similar →Enrollment trend & projection
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) | ~940 | -1 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2029) | ~939 | -2 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2031) | ~937 | -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.
Enrollment stability & demand — 2024-25
Two complementary signals: retention (do students stay once enrolled?) and demand (are families choosing the school?). Read against the Tehama County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.
Corning Union High School outperformed Tehama County on enrollment (school +8.1% vs. county +5.8%) AND maintains 86.0% stability. Replicable model — worth documenting what's working.
145 of 1,039 students who enrolled at Corning Union High School this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (14.0% 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.
Low and stable absenteeism — students are engaged and showing up. The leading indicator is healthy.
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.
Corning Union High School — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot
Public · Corning · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools
- ▸On UC Reach, Corning Union High School sits near the bottom of its similar-school group (ranked #9 of 9): 2% vs. a peer median of 9%.
- ▸Its UC Reach has held roughly steady since 2018.
- ▸Senior-class enrollment is up 8% (221→239 from 2018 to 2026), outpacing the peer-group median of +2%.
- ▸At its recent rate (-0.1%/yr), enrollment projects to ~939 by 2029 — about 2 fewer students than today.
Enrollment projection
That's about 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Corning Union High School | Public | 941 | 2.0% | +8% |
| Peer-group median | 9.1% | +2% | ||
| Orland High School | Public | 754 | 10.0% | +23% |
| Red Bluff High School | Public | 1567 | 9.9% | +4% |
| Chico High | Public | 1786 | 12.3% | -9% |
| Pleasant Valley Sr High School | Public | 1960 | 8.3% | -1% |
| West Valley Early College High | Public | 766 | — | -22% |
| University Preparatory School | Public | 1004 | 34.7% | +24% |
| Hamilton High | Public | 320 | — | +42% |
| Los Molinos High School | Public | 213 | 5.6% | -2% |
| Oroville High School | Public | 830 | 5.0% | -6% |
| Enterprise High School | Public | 1123 | 4.8% | +23% |
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 →
UC Outcomes Trend — 2018–2024
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 — 2024
| Campus | Applicants | Admits | Enrollees | Admit Rate | UC Reach | Yield | Avg GPA (App) | Avg GPA (Adm) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UC Berkeley → Elite | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| UCLA → Elite | 6 | — | — | — | — | — | 3.42 | — |
| UC San Diego → Selective | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| UC Santa Barbara → Selective | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| UC Davis → | 6 | — | — | — | — | — | 3.32 | — |