Dixon High School
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If this trend holds (-1.6%/yr, Total enrollment)
At per-pupil funding of $ / student:
| Horizon | Projected Total enrollment | Change | Funding impact / yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 yr (2027) | ~979 | -16 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2029) | ~947 | -48 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2031) | ~916 | -79 | $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 Solano County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.
Families who enroll at Dixon High School stay (89.8% stability — elite). But enrollment is dropping 3.9× the county rate (school -7.1% vs. county -1.8%). The audit question isn't why students leave — it's why fewer families are choosing to enroll in the first place.
105 of 1,033 students who enrolled at Dixon High School this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (10.2% 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 3.3 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 — Dixon 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: 36.1%
Federal: 11.5%
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 Dixon 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).
-7.8 pp vs. peer median (16.5%) · Ranked #9 of 10 similar schools
18.5%
53.3%
8.7%
Higher than 14% of California high schools (1105 ranked, ≥50 seniors)
Dixon High School's UC Reach of 8.7% is below the California median (18.5%). The top 10% of CA schools achieve 53.3% or higher.
Overall, Dixon High School's UC Reach is higher than 14% of California high schools (1105 ranked).
Dixon High School — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot
Public · Dixon · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools
- ▸On UC Reach, Dixon High School sits near the bottom of its similar-school group (ranked #9 of 10): 9% vs. a peer median of 16%.
- ▸Its UC Reach has slipped 9 points since 2018 — worth watching.
- ▸Senior-class enrollment is down 7% (255→237 from 2018 to 2026), trailing the peer-group median of -2%.
- ▸At its recent rate (-1.6%/yr), enrollment projects to ~947 by 2029 — about 48 fewer students than today.
Enrollment projection
That's about 48 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dixon High School | Public | 995 | 8.7% | -7% |
| Peer-group median | 16.5% | -2% | ||
| Woodland High School | Public | 1142 | 18.7% | -15% |
| Will C Wood High School | Public | 1585 | 8.6% | +12% |
| Davis Senior High School | Public | 1758 | 52.7% | -2% |
| Davis Senior High | Public | 1758 | — | +5% |
| Da Vinci Charter Academy | Public | 561 | 24.0% | -19% |
| Public Safety Academy | Public | 731 | 10.6% | +40% |
| Vanden High School | Public | 1553 | 12.4% | -13% |
| West Campus High School | Public | 904 | 82.2% | -1% |
| Natomas High School | Public | 1094 | 10.0% | +30% |
| Leroy Greene Academy | Public | 753 | 16.5% | -4% |
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 San Diego | 3.93 | 29.4% | 21.6% | +7.8pp | Over |
| UC Santa Barbara | 3.81 | 46.7% | 26.6% | +20.0pp | Over |
| UC Davis | 3.82 | 24.3% | 32.0% | -7.7pp | Under |
Where Dixon High School sits vs. all California schools ⓘ
Overall, this school admits its UC applicants in line with what their GPAs predict (30.4% actual vs. 28.3% 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 | 25 | — | — | — | — | — | 3.94 | — |
| UCLA → Elite | 22 | — | — | — | — | — | 4.03 | — |
| UC San Diego → Selective | 17 | 5 | — | 29.4% | 2.1% | — | 3.93 | 4.31 |
| UC Santa Barbara → Selective | 15 | 7 | 3 | 46.7% | 2.9% | 42.9% | 3.81 | 4.25 |
| UC Irvine → Selective | 15 | — | — | — | — | — | 3.95 | — |
| UC Davis → | 37 | 9 | — | 24.3% | 3.7% | — | 3.82 | 4.23 |