Escondido Charter High School
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Del Lago Academy - Campus Of Applied Science → Classical Academy High School → Valley Center High School → Escondido High School → Orange Glen High School → Compare all similar →Enrollment trend & projection
If this trend holds (+1.2%/yr, Total enrollment)
At per-pupil funding of $ / student:
| Horizon | Projected Total enrollment | Change | Funding impact / yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 yr (2027) | ~911 | +11 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2029) | ~933 | +33 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2031) | ~955 | +55 | $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 San Diego County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.
Escondido Charter High School is shrinking (-4.9%) but San Diego County is shrinking faster (-7.8%), so Escondido Charter High School is winning roughly 2.9 pp of relative market share. Combined with 96.1% stability (county median 88.5%), this reflects a school that families actively chose during a market contraction. Replicable model — worth documenting what's working.
37 of 947 students who enrolled at Escondido Charter High School this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (3.9% 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.
Low and stable absenteeism — students are engaged and showing up. The leading indicator is healthy.
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 — Escondido 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.
Local: 41.2%
Federal: 16.0%
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 Escondido 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).
+2.0 pp above peer median (13.7%) · Ranked #4 of 8 similar schools
18.5%
13.7%
53.3%
15.7%
Higher than 44% of California high schools (1105 ranked, ≥50 seniors)
Escondido Charter High School's UC Reach of 15.7% is below the California median (18.5%). The top 10% of CA schools achieve 53.3% or higher.
Overall, Escondido Charter High School's UC Reach is higher than 44% of California high schools (1105 ranked).
Escondido Charter High School — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot
Public · Escondido · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools
- ▸On UC Reach, Escondido Charter High School sits in the middle of its similar-school group (ranked #4 of 8): 16% vs. a peer median of 14%.
- ▸Its UC Reach has risen 2 points since 2018.
- ▸Senior-class enrollment is down 5% (206→196 from 2018 to 2026), outpacing the peer-group median of -12%.
- ▸In business terms, this is market-share growth during a market contraction. San Diego County's senior population shrank 8% over the same window — Escondido Charter High School only shrank 5%. So Escondido Charter High School picked up about 3 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.
- ▸Enrollment has been growing (+1.2%/yr); projects to ~933 by 2029.
Enrollment projection
Your school vs. its 10 most similar nearby schools
| School | Type | Size | UC Reach | Enroll. trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Escondido Charter High School | Public | 900 | 15.7% | -5% |
| Peer-group median | 13.7% | -12% | ||
| Del Lago Academy - Campus Of Applied Science | Public | 762 | — | +4% |
| Classical Academy High School | Public | 1395 | 13.7% | +2% |
| Valley Center High School | Public | 1019 | 10.5% | -12% |
| Escondido High School | Public | 1510 | 12.8% | -32% |
| Orange Glen High School | Public | 1642 | 18.9% | -15% |
| Siatech | Public | 765 | — | -81% |
| Sage Creek High School | Public | 1236 | 39.8% | -2% |
| San Pasqual High School | Public | 1852 | 19.6% | -26% |
| Guajome Park Academy Charter | Public | 1326 | — | -13% |
| Ramona High School | Public | 1374 | 8.5% | -3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UCLA | 4.04 | 9.7% | 9.4% | +0.2pp | On target |
| UC San Diego | 3.91 | 24.0% | 21.9% | +2.1pp | On target |
| UC Santa Barbara | 3.94 | 29.6% | 29.7% | -0.1pp | On target |
| UC Irvine | 4.00 | 17.9% | 26.6% | -8.6pp | Under |
| UC Davis | 3.95 | 36.0% | 32.5% | +3.5pp | On target |
Where Escondido Charter High School sits vs. all California schools ⓘ
Overall, this school admits its UC applicants in line with what their GPAs predict (22.7% actual vs. 23.5% 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 | 21 | — | — | — | — | — | 4.03 | — |
| UCLA → Elite | 31 | 3 | — | 9.7% | 1.2% | — | 4.04 | — |
| UC San Diego → Selective | 50 | 12 | 4 | 24.0% | 4.8% | 33.3% | 3.91 | 4.26 |
| UC Santa Barbara → Selective | 27 | 8 | — | 29.6% | 3.2% | — | 3.94 | 4.25 |
| UC Irvine → Selective | 39 | 7 | — | 17.9% | 2.8% | — | 4.00 | 4.22 |
| UC Davis → | 25 | 9 | — | 36.0% | 3.6% | — | 3.95 | 4.23 |