Dominguez High
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Dominguez Senior High School → Marco Antonio Firebaugh Hs → Lynwood High School → South GATE High School → King/Drew Medical Magnet High → Compare all similar →Enrollment trend & projection
If this trend holds (-2.4%/yr, Total enrollment)
At per-pupil funding of $ / student:
| Horizon | Projected Total enrollment | Change | Funding impact / yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 yr (2027) | ~1,466 | -36 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2029) | ~1,397 | -105 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2031) | ~1,332 | -170 | $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.
Dominguez High is recruiting families faster than Los Angeles County is shrinking (school -0.7% vs. county -8.2%), but 236 students didn't make it to year-end. The recruitment engine works; the mid-year exits are worth understanding.
236 of 1,702 students who enrolled at Dominguez High this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (13.9% 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 down 5.3 pp since 2016-17. Engagement improving — a positive trajectory worth understanding and reinforcing.
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 — Compton 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: 12.6%
Federal: 38.9%
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 Compton 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).
+3.0 pp above peer median (15.6%) · Ranked #4 of 9 similar schools
18.5%
53.3%
18.6%
Higher than 50% of California high schools (1105 ranked, ≥50 seniors)
Dominguez High's UC Reach of 18.6% is above the California median (18.5%). The top 10% of CA schools achieve 53.3% or higher.
For context, the elite tier (top 1%) clears 102.7% — a gap of 84 pp from where this school sits.
Overall, Dominguez High's UC Reach is higher than 50% of California high schools (1105 ranked).
Dominguez High — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot
Public · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools
- ▸On UC Reach, Dominguez High sits in the middle of its similar-school group (ranked #4 of 9): 19% vs. a peer median of 16%.
- ▸Its UC Reach has risen 7 points since 2018.
- ▸Senior-class enrollment is down 1% (427→424 from 2018 to 2026), outpacing the peer-group median of -13%.
- ▸In business terms, this is market-share growth during a market contraction. Los Angeles County's senior population shrank 8% over the same window — Dominguez High only shrank 1%. So Dominguez High picked up about 8 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 (-2.4%/yr), enrollment projects to ~1397 by 2029 — about 105 fewer students than today.
Enrollment projection
That's about 105 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dominguez High | Public | 1502 | 18.6% | -1% |
| Peer-group median | 15.6% | -13% | ||
| Dominguez Senior High School | Public | 1616 | 31.8% | +0% |
| Marco Antonio Firebaugh Hs | Public | 1639 | 24.1% | -1% |
| Lynwood High School | Public | 1674 | 15.6% | -19% |
| South GATE High School | Public | 1619 | 15.6% | -34% |
| King/Drew Medical Magnet High | Public | 1350 | — | -12% |
| Gahr (richard) High | Public | 1648 | — | -26% |
| Compton High | Public | 1868 | 10.5% | +9% |
| South East High School | Public | 1894 | 22.4% | +0% |
| Santa Fe High School | Public | 1756 | 14.7% | -24% |
| Bellflower High School | Public | 1959 | 15.0% | -13% |
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 | 3.71 | 14.3% | 12.9% | +1.4pp | On target |
| UCLA | 3.72 | 10.6% | 9.2% | +1.4pp | On target |
| UC San Diego | 3.62 | 26.7% | 31.0% | -4.3pp | On target |
| UC Santa Barbara | 3.64 | 42.1% | 28.1% | +14.0pp | Over |
| UC Irvine | 3.63 | 18.1% | 16.7% | +1.4pp | On target |
| UC Davis | 3.59 | 35.9% | 32.7% | +3.2pp | On target |
Where Dominguez High sits vs. all California schools ⓘ
Overall, this school admits its UC applicants in line with what their GPAs predict (22.5% actual vs. 20.2% 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 | 35 | 5 | — | 14.3% | 1.4% | — | 3.71 | 4.16 |
| UCLA → Elite | 66 | 7 | 4 | 10.6% | 1.9% | 57.1% | 3.72 | 4.07 |
| UC San Diego → Selective | 45 | 12 | — | 26.7% | 3.2% | — | 3.62 | 4.01 |
| UC Santa Barbara → Selective | 38 | 16 | 5 | 42.1% | 4.3% | 31.2% | 3.64 | 4.01 |
| UC Irvine → Selective | 83 | 15 | — | 18.1% | 4.1% | — | 3.63 | 3.97 |
| UC Davis → | 39 | 14 | — | 35.9% | 3.8% | — | 3.59 | 3.87 |