El Molino High School

Forestville · Sonoma County
Public Sonoma County
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Enrollment trend & projection

Total enrollment (9–12)
12 (2018)7 (2020)
-41.7%
Grade 12 (graduating class)
1 (2018)2 (2020)
+100.0%

If this trend holds (-23.6%/yr, Total enrollment)

At per-pupil funding of $ / student:

Horizon Projected Total enrollment Change Funding impact / yr
1 yr (2021) ~5 -2 $0
3 yr (2023) ~3 -4 $0
5 yr (2025) ~2 -5 $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.

University of California outcomes · Class of 2021
UC Reach
N/A
(class size est.)
UC Application Reach
N/A
59 applications
UC Admit Rate
27.1%
16 / 59 applications
In context: CA median 26.9% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 41.0% · higher than 51% of CA HS.
UC Yield Rate
18.8%
3 enrolled of 16 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
3 enrollees / None 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.
UC 6-Yr Grad Rate
95%
80% finished in 4 yrs · N=20 entered 2006
In context: CA median 85.1% · +9.9 pp above.
Selective UC Reach (UCSD, UCSB, UCI, UCD)
N/A
Elite UC Reach (UCB + UCLA)
N/A
Senior Class Size
N/A
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Total School Enrollment
N/A
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El Molino High School — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot

Public · Forestville · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools

  • Across the top-6 UC campuses, El Molino High School is admitting at roughly +13 percentage points above what its average applicant GPA (3.936) alone would predict (43% actual vs. 30% expected). That's a meaningful signal — it can reflect UC's track record with this school's graduates, students presenting strongly in UC's holistic review (essays, EC's, context), or institutional familiarity helping at the margin. The data can't distinguish which, but the pattern itself is real and worth understanding.
  • Senior-class enrollment is up 100% (1→2 from 2018 to 2020), outpacing the peer-group median of -11%.
  • At its recent rate (-23.6%/yr), enrollment projects to ~3 by 2023 — about 4 fewer students than today.

Enrollment projection

7 students (2020)
~3 projected (2023)
at -23.6%/yr

That's about 4 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
El Molino High School Public 7 +100%
Peer-group median -11%
Buena Vista High Public 6 +100%
Palisades High (continuation) Public 6 +50%
Marce Becerra Academy Public 21 +36%
North Bay Met Academy Public 28 -76%
Loconoma Valley High Public 14 -20%
Windsor Oaks Academy Public 38 -24%
Carpe Diem High (continuation) Public 19 -50%
Johanna Echols-Hansen High (continuation) Public 20 +7%
Laguna High Public 61 -2%
Valley Oaks High (alternative) Public 30 -61%

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 →

Avg. Applicant GPA · top-6 UCs
3.89
Avg. Admitted GPA · top-6 UCs
4.04

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 4.06 33.3% 26.6% +6.8pp Over
UC Santa Barbara 3.94 26.7% 26.3% +0.4pp On target
UC Davis 3.84 69.2% 36.2% +33.0pp 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.

Where El Molino High School sits vs. all California schools

Overall, this school admits its UC applicants 13.4 points above what their GPAs predict (43.2% actual vs. 29.8% expected).

UC Outcomes Trend — 2018–2021

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 — 2021

Campus Applicants Admits Enrollees Admit Rate UC Reach Yield Avg GPA (App) Avg GPA (Adm)
UC Berkeley → Elite 11 3.76
UCLA → Elite 6 4.03
UC San Diego → Selective 9 3 33.3% 4.06
UC Santa Barbara → Selective 15 4 26.7% 3.94
UC Irvine → Selective 5 3.68
UC Davis → 13 9 3 69.2% 33.3% 3.84 4.04
⚠ 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.
Senior class size is estimated from CDE grade 12 enrollment data. Reach percentages should be interpreted as approximate.
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