Desert Christian Academy

Bermuda Dunes · Riverside County · Private (Other religious)
Private Riverside County ~40 seniors
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Most similar nearby schools

Xavier College Preparatory Hs → Western Christian Schools → San Diego Jewish Academy → Crossroads Christian School → Aquinas High School → Compare all similar →

Enrollment trend & projection

Total enrollment (9–12)
431 (2020)628 (2025)
+45.7%
Grade 12 (graduating class)
32 (2020)40 (2025)
+25.0%

If this trend holds (+7.8%/yr, Total enrollment)

At tuition of $ / student:

Horizon Projected Total enrollment Change Tuition impact / yr
1 yr (2026) ~677 +49 $0
3 yr (2028) ~787 +159 $0
5 yr (2030) ~915 +287 $0

Straight-line extrapolation of the recent annual rate — a what-if, not a forecast of intent. Edit the figure to match your school.

Financial profile — IRS Form 990, FY2023

From 13 years of Form 990 filings via ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer (free public IRS data). The school's tax filings show financial scale, fundraising health, and endowment trajectory — signals that drive board-level conversations about tuition pricing, financial-aid capacity, and capital projects.

Total revenue
$9.2M
FY2023
Net assets (endowment + property)
$9.7M
+17.5% since FY2011
Tuition revenue (program)
$8.5M
≈ $13461/student avg
Gifts & grants
$0.4M
fundraising
Total revenue by year ($M)
Net assets by year ($M)

Source: IRS Form 990 via ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer (EIN 953048608). Tuition-per-student is total program-service revenue divided by latest enrollment — a rough average that includes auxiliary revenue (athletics, food service, etc.); the actual published tuition can differ. Form 990 is filed annually under penalty of perjury, so the financial scale figures are authoritative.

University of California outcomes · Class of 2025
UC Reach
N/A
UC Application Reach
27.5%
11 applications
In context: CA median 78.3% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 245.8% · Riverside Co. Top 10% ≥ 124.1% · higher than 7% of CA HS.
UC Admit Rate
N/A
None / 11 applications
UC Yield Rate
N/A
None enrolled of None admitted
Yield vs. Enrollment Reach: Yield answers "of UC admits, what % chose UC?" — denominator is just the admits. A small admitted cohort can post a low yield even when the school sends a healthy share of its class to UC.
UC Enrollment Reach
N/A
None enrollees / 40 seniors
Enrollment Reach vs. Yield: Reach answers "of the whole senior class, what % ended up at UC?" — denominator is everyone. High Yield with low Enrollment Reach is common at elite privates: most admits matriculate, but the school sends most of its class to non-UC selective colleges.
Selective UC Reach (UCSD, UCSB, UCI, UCD)
N/A
Elite UC Reach (UCB + UCLA)
N/A
Senior Class Size
40
Private School Affidavit
Total School Enrollment
628
All grades · Private School Affidavit

Private-school figures come from the California Private School Affidavit. Per CDE, inclusion in private-school data is not an evaluation, approval, or endorsement of a school.

Desert Christian Academy — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot

Private · Other religious · Bermuda Dunes · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools

  • Senior-class enrollment is up 25% (32→40 from 2020 to 2025), outpacing the peer-group median of +8%.
  • Enrollment has been growing (+7.8%/yr); projects to ~787 by 2028.

Enrollment projection

628 students (2025)
~787 projected (2028)
at +7.8%/yr

Your school vs. its 10 most similar nearby schools

School Type Size UC Reach Enroll. trend
Desert Christian Academy Private · Other religious 628 +25%
Peer-group median 18.7% +8%
Xavier College Preparatory Hs Private · Catholic 533 53.4% +16%
Western Christian Schools Private · Other religious 635 18.7% -9%
San Diego Jewish Academy Private · Other religious 572 10.3% -31%
Crossroads Christian School Private · Other religious 733 +36%
Aquinas High School Private · Catholic 645 26.3% +8%
Tri City Christian School Private · Other religious 758 28.6% +34%
Rancho Christian High School Private · Other religious 788 10.2% +33%
Carnegie Schools Riverside Private · Other religious 494 6.2% +0%
Saint Augustine High School Private · Catholic 717 14.4% -1%
Academy Our Lady of Peace Private · Catholic 722 38.2% +9%

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, and religious orientation. Methodology →

Avg. Applicant GPA · top-6 UCs
3.89

GPA figures reflect 2018 — UC has not yet released applicant/admit GPA for 2025.

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? Based on 2018 (latest GPA available).

Campus Applicant GPA (avg) Actual admit rate CA peer avg Δ Verdict
UC Davis 3.89 60.0% 34.2% +25.8pp Over
"Applicant GPA" is the average GPA of this school's UC applicant pool — not an individual student GPA. "CA peer avg" is the application-weighted statewide admit rate at this school-pool GPA, fit separately per campus. At any given pool GPA, real admit rates span widely (UCSD ranges 8% → 65% across CA schools) because UCs use comprehensive review — context-of-opportunity, geography, demographics, and applicant essays all weigh in beyond GPA. A large negative residual flags this school is admitted at a meaningfully lower rate than other CA schools at the same pool GPA — not that students here were "rejected at expected rate X." "Over" / "Under" use a ±5-point band. Campuses with fewer than 5 applicants are omitted.

UC Outcomes Trend — 2018–2025

UC Admit Rate %
UC Reach % (where available)
UC Admits (count, right axis)

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) '18 Avg GPA (Adm) '18
UC San Diego → Selective 5
UC Irvine → Selective 6
⚠ Campus-level totals may count one student admitted to multiple UC campuses more than once. Admit Volume metrics are not the same as UC Reach, which requires unique-student counts. See methodology →

What This Means

Note: admit counts used here are campus-level totals. A student admitted to both UCLA and UCSD is counted twice. When UCOP unique-student data becomes available it will be loaded automatically and the labels will update.
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