Enrollment & Outcomes Scorecard
Discovery Charter Prep School
Public · Sylmar · Los Angeles County · 176 students · Class of 2025
UC Reach · Class of 2025
7%
Higher than 7% of California high schools
-16.9 pp vs. peer median (24.0%)
· Ranked #2 of 2 similar schools
5-year UC Reach
2018 · 10.2%
2025 · 7.1%
-6%
Senior-class enrollment (2018–2026)
+2.1 pp
vs. Los Angeles County baseline (-8%)
~159
5-yr projected enrollment (17 fewer than today)
- ▸On UC Reach, Discovery Charter Prep School sits near the top of its similar-school group (ranked #2 of 2): 7% vs. a peer median of 24%.
- ▸Discovery Charter Prep School's UC Reach has declined meaningfully from a peak of 25% in 2021 to 7% in 2025 — a 18-point drop that warrants attention. Multi-year UC Reach declines of this size often signal something specific (leadership change, comp-program shift, demographic move) rather than year-to-year noise. This is the kind of trajectory an Enrollment Trend Audit unpacks.
- ▸Senior-class enrollment is down 6% (49→46 from 2018 to 2026), outpacing the peer-group median of -24%.
- ▸In business terms, this is market-share growth during a market contraction. Los Angeles County's senior population shrank 8% over the same window — Discovery Charter Prep School only shrank 6%. So Discovery Charter Prep School picked up about 2 percentage points of relative share — families chose it over the alternatives even as the overall pool got smaller. That's overperforming the market in a shrinking market.
- ▸At its recent rate (-3.3%/yr), enrollment projects to ~159 by 2029 — about 17 fewer students than today.
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|---|---|---|---|
| Puc Early College Academy For Leaders And Scholars (ecals) | Public | — | -33% |
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| Cesar E. Chavez Learning Academies-Arts/theatre/entertain Mag | Public | — | -32% |
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| Mission Continuation | Public | — | +73% |
UC Reach = top-6 UC admits ÷ senior class. Sources: UCOP Admissions by Source School, CDE enrollment, IRS Form 990, NCES F-33. Reach — by Test Prep Gurus · Methodology
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