Foothill Technology Hs
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Golden Valley Charter → Vista Real Charter High School → Buena High School → Rancho Campana High School → Ventura High School → Compare all similar →Enrollment trend & projection
If this trend holds (-0.8%/yr, Total enrollment)
At per-pupil funding of $ / student:
| Horizon | Projected Total enrollment | Change | Funding impact / yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 yr (2027) | ~932 | -7 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2029) | ~917 | -22 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2031) | ~902 | -37 | $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 Ventura County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.
Foothill Technology Hs is shrinking (-7.8%) but Ventura County is shrinking faster (-10.3%), so Foothill Technology Hs is winning roughly 2.5 pp of relative market share. Combined with 97.1% stability (county median 89.0%), this reflects a school that families actively chose during a market contraction. Replicable model — worth documenting what's working.
28 of 962 students who enrolled at Foothill Technology Hs this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (2.9% 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.
Absenteeism is up 6.5 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.
District financial profile — Ventura Unified (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: 40.3%
Federal: 10.3%
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 Ventura Unified 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).
On the peer median (20.8%) · Ranked #5 of 8 similar schools
18.5%
53.3%
20.7%
Higher than 56% of California high schools (1105 ranked, ≥50 seniors)
Foothill Technology Hs's UC Reach of 20.7% is above the California median (18.5%). The top 10% of CA schools achieve 53.3% or higher.
For context, the elite tier (top 1%) clears 102.7% — a gap of 82 pp from where this school sits.
Overall, Foothill Technology Hs's UC Reach is higher than 56% of California high schools (1105 ranked).
Foothill Technology Hs — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot
Public · Ventura · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools
- ▸On UC Reach, Foothill Technology Hs sits in the middle of its similar-school group (ranked #5 of 8): 21% vs. a peer median of 21%.
- ▸Its UC Reach has held roughly steady since 2018.
- ▸Across the top-6 UC campuses, Foothill Technology Hs is admitting at roughly -6 percentage points below what its average applicant GPA (3.931) alone would predict (16% actual vs. 22% expected). That's worth understanding — it can reflect grade inflation that UC sees through, weaker holistic-review materials at the margin, or applicants concentrating at more selective campuses than typical. Not a verdict; a signal.
- ▸Senior-class enrollment is down 8% (255→235 from 2018 to 2026), tracking the peer-group median of -9%.
- ▸In business terms, this is market-share growth during a market contraction. Ventura County's senior population shrank 10% over the same window — Foothill Technology Hs only shrank 8%. So Foothill Technology Hs picked up about 2 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.
- ▸At its recent rate (-0.8%/yr), enrollment projects to ~917 by 2029 — about 22 fewer students than today.
Enrollment projection
That's about 22 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Foothill Technology Hs | Public | 939 | 20.7% | -8% |
| Peer-group median | 20.8% | -9% | ||
| Golden Valley Charter | Public | 681 | — | -45% |
| Vista Real Charter High School | Public | 1050 | — | -57% |
| Buena High School | Public | 1487 | 7.5% | -20% |
| Rancho Campana High School | Public | 820 | 37.0% | +58% |
| Ventura High School | Public | 1927 | 20.8% | -14% |
| Rio Mesa High School | Public | 1836 | 10.1% | -3% |
| Santa Paula High School | Public | 1456 | 19.8% | +2% |
| Camarillo Academy Of Progressive Education | Public | 588 | — | +200% |
| Fillmore High School | Public | 1034 | 21.9% | +2% |
| Nordhoff High School | Public | 562 | 21.6% | -24% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UC Berkeley | 4.02 | 6.8% | 12.9% | -6.1pp | Under |
| UCLA | 3.97 | 9.4% | 9.1% | +0.3pp | On target |
| UC San Diego | 3.93 | 15.5% | 21.6% | -6.1pp | Under |
| UC Santa Barbara | 3.90 | 15.5% | 28.4% | -12.9pp | Under |
| UC Irvine | 3.91 | 9.1% | 23.2% | -14.2pp | Under |
| UC Davis | 3.88 | 34.0% | 32.2% | +1.8pp | On target |
Where Foothill Technology Hs sits vs. all California schools ⓘ
Overall, this school admits its UC applicants 6.1 points below what their GPAs predict (15.5% actual vs. 21.6% 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 | 44 | 3 | — | 6.8% | 1.3% | — | 4.02 | — |
| UCLA → Elite | 53 | 5 | 3 | 9.4% | 2.2% | 60.0% | 3.97 | 4.24 |
| UC San Diego → Selective | 58 | 9 | — | 15.5% | 3.9% | — | 3.93 | 4.25 |
| UC Santa Barbara → Selective | 58 | 9 | — | 15.5% | 3.9% | — | 3.90 | 4.25 |
| UC Irvine → Selective | 44 | 4 | — | 9.1% | 1.7% | — | 3.91 | — |
| UC Davis → | 53 | 18 | 6 | 34.0% | 7.8% | 33.3% | 3.88 | 4.11 |