Culver City High School
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Alexander Hamilton High School → Venice High School → Santa Monica High School → Foshay Learning Center → Hawthorne High School → Compare all similar →Enrollment trend & projection
If this trend holds (-0.8%/yr, Total enrollment)
At per-pupil funding of $ / student:
| Horizon | Projected Total enrollment | Change | Funding impact / yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 yr (2027) | ~1,993 | -16 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2029) | ~1,960 | -49 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2031) | ~1,928 | -81 | $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 Los Angeles County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.
Culver City High School outperformed Los Angeles County on enrollment (school +3.1% vs. county -8.2%) AND maintains 95.7% stability. Replicable model — worth documenting what's working.
88 of 2,051 students who enrolled at Culver City High School this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (4.3% 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.
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 4.3 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 — Culver City 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: 39.0%
Federal: 8.8%
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 Culver City 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).
On the peer median (37.2%) · Ranked #5 of 9 similar schools
18.5%
37.2%
53.3%
36.7%
Higher than 79% of California high schools (1105 ranked, ≥50 seniors)
Culver City High School's UC Reach of 36.7% is in the top quartile statewide (median 18.5%; top 25% bar 32.0%) — but it's still below the top-10% bar of 53.3%.
For context, the elite tier (top 1%) clears 102.7% — a gap of 66 pp from where this school sits.
Overall, Culver City High School's UC Reach is higher than 79% of California high schools (1105 ranked).
Culver City High School — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot
Public · Culver City · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools
- ▸On UC Reach, Culver City High School sits in the middle of its similar-school group (ranked #5 of 9): 37% vs. a peer median of 37%.
- ▸Its UC Reach has risen 12 points since 2018.
- ▸Senior-class enrollment is up 3% (484→499 from 2018 to 2026), outpacing the peer-group median of -16%.
- ▸At its recent rate (-0.8%/yr), enrollment projects to ~1960 by 2029 — about 49 fewer students than today.
Enrollment projection
That's about 49 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Culver City High School | Public | 2009 | 36.7% | +3% |
| Peer-group median | 37.2% | -16% | ||
| Alexander Hamilton High School | Public | 2025 | 30.7% | -21% |
| Venice High School | Public | 2334 | 38.0% | +24% |
| Santa Monica High School | Public | 2588 | 48.7% | -11% |
| Foshay Learning Center | Public | 1558 | 42.9% | +6% |
| Hawthorne High School | Public | 1549 | 15.0% | -23% |
| Fairfax High School | Public | 1459 | 28.3% | -28% |
| University High School Charter | Public | 1300 | — | -21% |
| Beverly Hills High School | Public | 1100 | 36.4% | -22% |
| El Segundo High School | Public | 1177 | 54.3% | +16% |
| Augustus Hawkins High | Public | 1060 | — | +168% |
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 Berkeley | 3.84 | 15.5% | 11.6% | +3.9pp | On target |
| UCLA | 3.78 | 12.3% | 9.0% | +3.2pp | On target |
| UC San Diego | 3.79 | 33.3% | 25.2% | +8.1pp | Over |
| UC Santa Barbara | 3.77 | 17.3% | 26.4% | -9.1pp | Under |
| UC Irvine | 3.73 | 16.5% | 18.4% | -1.9pp | On target |
| UC Davis | 3.77 | 37.1% | 32.0% | +5.1pp | Over |
Where Culver City High School sits vs. all California schools ⓘ
Overall, this school admits its UC applicants in line with what their GPAs predict (21.4% actual vs. 20.0% 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 | 129 | 20 | 8 | 15.5% | 3.9% | 40.0% | 3.84 | 4.15 |
| UCLA → Elite | 171 | 21 | 12 | 12.3% | 4.1% | 57.1% | 3.78 | 4.22 |
| UC San Diego → Selective | 168 | 56 | 20 | 33.3% | 11.0% | 35.7% | 3.79 | 4.17 |
| UC Santa Barbara → Selective | 156 | 27 | — | 17.3% | 5.3% | — | 3.77 | 4.23 |
| UC Irvine → Selective | 139 | 23 | 3 | 16.5% | 4.5% | 13.0% | 3.73 | 4.17 |
| UC Davis → | 105 | 39 | 10 | 37.1% | 7.7% | 25.6% | 3.77 | 4.08 |