Environmental Charter High - Lawndale
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If this trend holds (-0.1%/yr, Total enrollment)
At per-pupil funding of $ / student:
| Horizon | Projected Total enrollment | Change | Funding impact / yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 yr (2027) | ~516 | -1 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2029) | ~515 | -2 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2031) | ~513 | -4 | $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.
Environmental Charter High - Lawndale outperformed Los Angeles County on enrollment (school +6.1% vs. county -8.2%) AND maintains 95.2% stability. Replicable model — worth documenting what's working.
24 of 500 students who enrolled at Environmental Charter High - Lawndale this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (4.8% 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 11.5 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.
+32.5 pp above peer median (20.8%) · Ranked #1 of 5 similar schools
18.6%
53.4%
53.3%
Higher than 90% of California high schools (1142 ranked, ≥50 seniors)
Environmental Charter High - Lawndale's UC Reach of 53.3% is in the top quartile statewide (median 18.6%; top 25% bar 34.2%) — but it's still below the top-10% bar of 53.4%.
For context, the elite tier (top 1%) clears 95.1% — a gap of 42 pp from where this school sits.
Overall, Environmental Charter High - Lawndale's UC Reach is higher than 90% of California high schools (1142 ranked).
Environmental Charter High - Lawndale — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot
Public · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools
- ▸On UC Reach, Environmental Charter High - Lawndale sits near the top of its similar-school group (ranked #1 of 5): 53% vs. a peer median of 21%.
- ▸Senior-class enrollment is up 6% (115→122 from 2018 to 2026), outpacing the peer-group median of +2%.
- ▸At its recent rate (-0.1%/yr), enrollment projects to ~515 by 2029 — about 2 fewer students than today.
Enrollment projection
That's about 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Environmental Charter High - Lawndale | Public | 517 | 53.3% | +6% |
| Peer-group median | 20.8% | +2% | ||
| Da Vinci Design High School | Public | 539 | 11.4% | -28% |
| Da Vinci Communications Hs | Public | 555 | 25.5% | +46% |
| Da Vinci Science High School | Public | 556 | 27.5% | +4% |
| Hawthorne Math And Science Academy | Public | 573 | — | -5% |
| Environmental Charter High - Gardena | Public | 446 | — | -13% |
| Family First Charter | Public | 579 | — | -73% |
| Stella High Charter Academy | Public | 567 | 16.0% | +2% |
| Lennox Mathematics, Science And Technology Academy | Public | 586 | — | +1% |
| Animo South Los Angeles Charter | Public | 575 | — | +4% |
| Alliance Renee And Meyer Luskin Academy High | Public | 516 | — | +15% |
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 →
Campus Breakdown — 2024
| Campus | Applicants | Admits | Enrollees | Admit Rate | UC Reach | Yield | Avg GPA (App) | Avg GPA (Adm) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UC Berkeley → Elite | 26 | 5 | — | 19.2% | 4.1% | — | — | — |
| UCLA → Elite | 47 | 4 | 3 | 8.5% | 3.3% | 75.0% | — | — |
| UC San Diego → Selective | 42 | 19 | 4 | 45.2% | 15.6% | 21.1% | — | — |
| UC Santa Barbara → Selective | 38 | 11 | — | 28.9% | 9.0% | — | — | — |
| UC Irvine → Selective | 51 | 18 | 8 | 35.3% | 14.8% | 44.4% | — | — |
| UC Davis → | 14 | 8 | — | 57.1% | 6.6% | — | — | — |