Fremont High
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Homestead High School → Cupertino High School → Los Altos High → Monta Vista High School → Lynbrook High School → Compare all similar →Enrollment trend & projection
If this trend holds (-0.7%/yr, Total enrollment)
At per-pupil funding of $ / student:
| Horizon | Projected Total enrollment | Change | Funding impact / yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 yr (2027) | ~2,002 | -13 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2029) | ~1,976 | -39 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2031) | ~1,950 | -65 | $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 Santa Clara County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.
Fremont High outperformed Santa Clara County on enrollment (school +3.7% vs. county -6.2%) AND maintains 92.6% stability. Replicable model — worth documenting what's working. Chronic absenteeism is rising (20.2%, +8.3 pts since 2016-17) — a watch signal worth monitoring as a leading indicator.
160 of 2,160 students who enrolled at Fremont High this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (7.4% 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 8.3 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 — Fremont 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: 85.2%
Federal: 3.2%
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 Fremont 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).
-38.1 pp vs. peer median (62.2%) · Ranked #9 of 9 similar schools
18.5%
62.2%
53.3%
24.1%
Higher than 63% of California high schools (1105 ranked, ≥50 seniors)
Fremont High's UC Reach of 24.1% is above the California median (18.5%). The top 10% of CA schools achieve 53.3% or higher.
But in Santa Clara County, where the local median is 33.1% and the top-10% bar is 79.3%, this score is mid-pack rather than exceptional — typical of its market rather than a standout.
Against similar schools, Fremont High trails the peer-group median (62.2%) — even though it looks strong vs. the state average.
For context, the elite tier (top 1%) clears 102.7% — a gap of 79 pp from where this school sits.
Overall, Fremont High's UC Reach is higher than 63% of California high schools (1105 ranked).
Fremont High — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot
Public · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools
- ▸On UC Reach, Fremont High sits near the bottom of its similar-school group (ranked #9 of 9): 24% vs. a peer median of 62%.
- ▸Its UC Reach has slipped 10 points since 2018 — worth watching.
- ▸Across the top-6 UC campuses, Fremont High is admitting at roughly -7 percentage points below what its average applicant GPA (4.02) alone would predict (15% actual vs. 23% 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 up 4% (512→531 from 2018 to 2026), outpacing the peer-group median of -3%.
- ▸At its recent rate (-0.7%/yr), enrollment projects to ~1976 by 2029 — about 39 fewer students than today.
Enrollment projection
That's about 39 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fremont High | Public | 2015 | 24.1% | +4% |
| Peer-group median | 62.2% | -3% | ||
| Homestead High School | Public | 2190 | 54.6% | -1% |
| Cupertino High School | Public | 1814 | 77.7% | -13% |
| Los Altos High | Public | 2203 | 54.3% | +4% |
| Monta Vista High School | Public | 1588 | 85.5% | -31% |
| Lynbrook High School | Public | 1640 | 85.7% | -5% |
| Westmont High School | Public | 1631 | 28.7% | +12% |
| Palo Alto Senior High School | Public | 1828 | 69.9% | -8% |
| Palo Alto High | Public | 1828 | — | -2% |
| Leigh High School | Public | 1894 | 47.1% | +18% |
| Henry M. Gunn High | Public | 1606 | — | -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 →
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 | 4.04 | 5.5% | 13.3% | -7.8pp | Under |
| UCLA | 4.05 | 8.2% | 9.5% | -1.3pp | On target |
| UC San Diego | 4.02 | 15.3% | 19.5% | -4.2pp | On target |
| UC Santa Barbara | 3.99 | 26.4% | 32.3% | -5.9pp | Under |
| UC Irvine | 4.02 | 21.5% | 27.3% | -5.8pp | Under |
| UC Davis | 4.00 | 16.0% | 32.8% | -16.9pp | Under |
Where Fremont High sits vs. all California schools ⓘ
Overall, this school admits its UC applicants 7.1 points below what their GPAs predict (15.4% actual vs. 22.6% 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 | 145 | 8 | 5 | 5.5% | 1.4% | 62.5% | 4.04 | 4.17 |
| UCLA → Elite | 146 | 12 | 7 | 8.2% | 2.1% | 58.3% | 4.05 | 4.27 |
| UC San Diego → Selective | 157 | 24 | 11 | 15.3% | 4.2% | 45.8% | 4.02 | 4.26 |
| UC Santa Barbara → Selective | 140 | 37 | 4 | 26.4% | 6.5% | 10.8% | 3.99 | 4.29 |
| UC Irvine → Selective | 144 | 31 | 4 | 21.5% | 5.4% | 12.9% | 4.02 | 4.23 |
| UC Davis → | 163 | 26 | 8 | 16.0% | 4.5% | 30.8% | 4.00 | 4.17 |