Delta High School
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If this trend holds (-2.8%/yr, Total enrollment)
At per-pupil funding of $ / student:
| Horizon | Projected Total enrollment | Change | Funding impact / yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 yr (2027) | ~301 | -9 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2029) | ~284 | -26 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2031) | ~269 | -41 | $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 Yolo County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.
Enrollment -26.8% vs. county -1.9% AND stability (23.4%) below the county median. Recruitment and retention both under pressure — likely a foundational rather than tactical problem. Chronic absenteeism is also at 66.2% (up +2.7 pts from 2016-17) — engagement and demand are both signaling decline.
402 of 525 students who enrolled at Delta High School this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (76.6% 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.
Roughly one in three students is chronically absent. A floor this high signals systemic engagement problems beyond what any single intervention can fix.
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 — Santa Maria Joint Union High (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: 37.5%
Federal: 10.9%
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 Santa Maria Joint Union High 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).
-9.5 pp vs. peer median (13.0%) · Ranked #7 of 7 similar schools
18.5%
13.0%
53.3%
3.5%
Higher than 2% of California high schools (1105 ranked, ≥50 seniors)
Delta High School's UC Reach of 3.5% is below the California median (18.5%). The top 10% of CA schools achieve 53.3% or higher.
Overall, Delta High School's UC Reach is higher than 2% of California high schools (1105 ranked).
Delta High School — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot
Public · Clarksburg · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools
- ▸On UC Reach, Delta High School sits near the bottom of its similar-school group (ranked #7 of 7): 4% vs. a peer median of 13%.
- ▸Its UC Reach has risen 2 points since 2018.
- ▸Senior-class enrollment is down 27% (276→202 from 2018 to 2026), trailing the peer-group median of -0%.
- ▸At its recent rate (-2.8%/yr), enrollment projects to ~284 by 2029 — about 26 fewer students than today.
Enrollment projection
That's about 26 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delta High School | Public | 310 | 3.5% | -27% |
| Peer-group median | 13.0% | -0% | ||
| Central Coast New Tech High | Public | 314 | — | -4% |
| Orcutt Academy Charter High School | Public | 796 | 32.5% | +22% |
| Maple High | Public | 129 | — | +150% |
| Nipomo High School | Public | 833 | 8.9% | +3% |
| Cabrillo High School | Public | 1064 | 12.3% | -14% |
| Grizzly Challenge Charter | Public | 249 | — | -28% |
| Lopez Continuation High | Public | 86 | — | -18% |
| El Camino High | Public | 223 | 11.4% | +10% |
| Santa Ynez Valley Union Hs | Public | 729 | 19.5% | -15% |
| Ernest Righetti High School | Public | 2472 | 13.7% | +24% |
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 Davis | 3.89 | 70.0% | 32.2% | +37.8pp | Over |
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 Irvine → Selective | 5 | — | — | — | — | — | 3.99 | — |
| UC Davis → | 10 | 7 | 3 | 70.0% | 3.5% | 42.9% | 3.89 | 4.03 |