Galileo High

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No UC admissions data on file for Galileo High.

This school doesn't appear in UCOP's source-school records (it may send few or no applicants to UC). Its enrollment trend and similar-school comparison are still below.

Enrollment trend & projection

Total enrollment (9–12)
1,831 (2018)1,806 (2026)
-1.4%
Grade 12 (graduating class)
496 (2018)420 (2026)
-15.3%

If this trend holds (-0.2%/yr, Total enrollment)

At per-pupil funding of $ / student:

Horizon Projected Total enrollment Change Funding impact / yr
1 yr (2027) ~1,803 -3 $0
3 yr (2029) ~1,797 -9 $0
5 yr (2031) ~1,791 -15 $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 Francisco County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.

Critical
Material decline in demand.

Enrollment -15.3% vs. county -1.6% — losing 9.6× the county rate. Each enrolled family matters more, but the engine of new enrollment is breaking down.

-15.3%  school enrollment (2018–2026)
-1.6%  San Francisco County baseline
-13.7pp  gap vs. county
86.6%  retention (county median 86.2%)
Enrollment — indexed to 100 at 2018
Stability rate by year (raw %)
Stability rate
86.6%
1,651 of 1,906 students

255 of 1,906 students who enrolled at Galileo High this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (13.4% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.

San Francisco County median
86.2% · school is in the 56th percentile of 18 HS
Statewide median
87.2% · in the 48th percentile of 1,688 HS

Stability by student group

Socio. disadvantaged (1,227) 87.4%
Asian (804) 91.7%
Hispanic / Latino (623) 84.8%
English learners (576) 82.5%
Students w/ disabilities (240) 85.8%
White (161) 84.5%

Nearest peer high schools

Lincoln (abraham) High 88.6% Oakland Technical High School 90.4% Alameda High School 96.7% Oakland High School 89.8% Lowell High School 98.0%

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.

Chronic absent
27.8%
515 of 1,852 students

Absenteeism is up 27.7 pp since 2016-17. A rising absenteeism trend often precedes formal departure — worth investigating which subgroups are driving it.

San Francisco County median
39.8% · school is better than 71% of 17 HS
Statewide median
22.9%
Chronic absenteeism by year (raw %)

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.

ELA — met or exceeded
n = 341
56.0%
incl. 29.6% exceeded
+1.5 pts above San Francisco County median (54.5%) · CA median 54.3% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 79.3%
Math — met or exceeded
n = 365
38.9%
incl. 19.4% exceeded
+17.7 pts above San Francisco County median (21.2%) · CA median 21.1% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 53.6%

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

Asian 43% -1.2
Hispanic / Latino 32% +2.9
White 7% -2.1
Black / African Am. 5%
Two or more 5%
Filipino 4%
Not reported 3% +1.4

Program subgroups

Students w/ disabilities 64% +3.3
English learners 30% +7.1
Socioeconomically disadv. 14% +1.9
Homeless 13% +7.7

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 — San Francisco 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.

Total revenue
$1228.3M
+17.3% since FY2017
Per-pupil revenue
$23,716
51,790 students enrolled
Revenue mix
State: 36.3%
Local: 56.0%
Federal: 7.8%
Instruction share
53.2%
of current spending · $9,747/pupil
Long-term debt
$969.8M
+0.1% since FY2017
Total revenue by year ($M)
Total expenditure by year ($M)

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 San Francisco 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).

Galileo High — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot

Public · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools

  • Senior-class enrollment is down 15% (496→420 from 2018 to 2026), trailing the peer-group median of -4%.
  • At its recent rate (-0.2%/yr), enrollment projects to ~1797 by 2029 — about 9 fewer students than today.

Enrollment projection

1806 students (2026)
~1797 projected (2029)
at -0.2%/yr

That's about 9 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
Galileo High Public 1806 -15%
Peer-group median 42.3% -4%
Lincoln (abraham) High Public 2069 -1%
Oakland Technical High School Public 1815 45.4% -4%
Alameda High School Public 1843 51.2% +5%
Oakland High School Public 1624 33.5% +10%
Lowell High School Public 2589 70.6% -5%
Encinal Junior/Senior High Public 1342 -16%
Balboa High School Public 1195 38.0% +3%
Tamalpais High School Public 1346 55.1% -8%
El Cerrito High School Public 1361 39.3% -6%
Westmoor High School Public 1273 25.2% -21%

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 →

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