El Monte Union High School Community Day

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This school doesn't appear in UCOP's source-school records (it may send few or no applicants to UC). Its enrollment trend and similar-school comparison are still below.

Enrollment trend & projection

Total enrollment (9–12)
39 (2018)24 (2026)
-38.5%
Grade 12 (graduating class)
13 (2018)11 (2026)
-15.4%

If this trend holds (-5.9%/yr, Total enrollment)

At per-pupil funding of $ / student:

Horizon Projected Total enrollment Change Funding impact / yr
1 yr (2027) ~23 -1 $0
3 yr (2029) ~20 -4 $0
5 yr (2031) ~18 -6 $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.

Critical
Bleeding from both ends.

Enrollment down 15.4% vs. county -8.2%, AND stability (24.5%) below the county median. Fewer families are choosing the school, and the ones who do aren't staying through year-end. Chronic absenteeism is also at 91.3% (up +26.4 pts from 2016-17) — engagement and demand are both signaling decline.

-15.4%  school enrollment (2018–2026)
-8.2%  Los Angeles County baseline
-7.2pp  gap vs. county
24.5%  retention (county median 87.3%)
Enrollment — indexed to 100 at 2018
Stability rate by year (raw %)
Stability rate
24.5%
13 of 53 students

40 of 53 students who enrolled at El Monte Union High School Community Day this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (75.5% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.

Los Angeles County median
87.3% · school is in the 6th percentile of 387 HS
Statewide median
87.2% · in the 3rd percentile of 1,688 HS

Stability by student group

Hispanic / Latino (53) 24.5%
Socio. disadvantaged (53) 24.5%
Students w/ disabilities (38) 28.9%
English learners (24) 33.3%

Nearest peer high schools

Canyon Oaks High 48.3% Mountain Park School 42.9% Del Mar High 46.2% Nueva Vista Continuation High 56.9% Monterey Continuation 11.3%

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.

Chronic absent
91.3%
42 of 46 students

Absenteeism is up 26.4 pp since 2016-17. A rising absenteeism trend often precedes formal departure — worth investigating which subgroups are driving it.

Los Angeles County median
25.2% · school is worse than 98% of 381 HS
Statewide median
22.9%
Chronic absenteeism by year (raw %)

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.

ELA — met or exceeded
n = 12
0.0%
incl. 0.0% exceeded
-58.0 pts vs. Los Angeles County median (58.0%) · CA median 54.3% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 79.3%

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

Hispanic / Latino 96% -4.2
Asian 4%

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 — El Monte Union High (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.

Total revenue
$188.8M
+16.9% since FY2017
Per-pupil revenue
$22,590
8,358 students enrolled
Revenue mix
State: 63.8%
Local: 25.8%
Federal: 10.3%
Instruction share
55.6%
of current spending · $8,705/pupil
Long-term debt
$178.8M
+18.3% since FY2017
Total revenue by year ($M)
Total expenditure by year ($M)

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 El Monte Union High 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).

El Monte Union High School Community Day — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot

Public · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools

  • Senior-class enrollment is down 15% (13→11 from 2018 to 2026), outpacing the peer-group median of -32%.
  • At its recent rate (-5.9%/yr), enrollment projects to ~20 by 2029 — about 4 fewer students than today.

Enrollment projection

24 students (2026)
~20 projected (2029)
at -5.9%/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 Monte Union High School Community Day Public 24 -15%
Peer-group median -32%
Canyon Oaks High Public 32 -62%
Mountain Park School Public 34 +0%
Del Mar High Public 40 -35%
Nueva Vista Continuation High Public 45 +18%
Monterey Continuation Public 45 -39%
Mt. Olive Innovation And Technology High Public 55 -56%
Valley Alternative High (continuation) Public 75 -29%
Rose City High (continuation) Public 92 -51%
Fairvalley High (continuation) Public 101 -18%
Coronado High (continuation) Public 111 -29%

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 →

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