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California Innovative Career Academy → West Campus High School → Community Collaborative Charter → El Camino Fundamental Hs → Highlands High School → Compare all similar →Enrollment trend & projection
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) | ~865 | -14 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2029) | ~837 | -42 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2031) | ~809 | -70 | $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 Sacramento County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.
Enrollment growth is beating Sacramento County (+22.8% vs. +3.0%), but 264 of 930 students didn't maintain continuous enrollment. Why are families leaving once enrolled? Chronic absenteeism is also at 33.9% (up -6.0 pts from 2016-17) — engagement and demand are both signaling decline.
264 of 930 students who enrolled at Encina High School this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (28.4% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.
Stability by student group
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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 6.0 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.
Encina High School — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot
Public · Sacramento · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools
- ▸On UC Reach, Encina High School sits near the bottom of its similar-school group (ranked #6 of 6): 3% vs. a peer median of 14%.
- ▸Its UC Reach has held roughly steady since 2021.
- ▸Senior-class enrollment is up 23% (167→205 from 2018 to 2026), outpacing the peer-group median of -2%.
- ▸At its recent rate (-1.6%/yr), enrollment projects to ~837 by 2029 — about 42 fewer students than today.
Enrollment projection
That's about 42 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Encina High School | Public | 879 | 2.9% | +23% |
| Peer-group median | 14.3% | -2% | ||
| California Innovative Career Academy | Public | 800 | — | +36% |
| West Campus High School | Public | 904 | 82.2% | -1% |
| Community Collaborative Charter | Public | 810 | — | -66% |
| El Camino Fundamental Hs | Public | 1171 | 14.3% | -6% |
| Highlands High School | Public | 791 | 4.3% | +22% |
| Options For Youth San Juan | Public | 742 | — | -24% |
| Leroy Greene Academy | Public | 753 | 16.5% | -4% |
| Natomas High School | Public | 1094 | 10.0% | +30% |
| Creative Connections Arts Academy | Public | 786 | — | +64% |
| Sava - Sacramento Academic And Vocational Academy - Scusd | Public | 616 | — | -16% |
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 →
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 | 5 | — | — | — | — | — | 3.93 | — |
| UCLA → Elite | 7 | — | — | — | — | — | 3.69 | — |
| UC San Diego → Selective | 5 | — | — | — | — | — | 3.66 | — |
| UC Davis → | 9 | — | — | — | — | — | 3.70 | — |