Gateway High School
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Raoul Wallenberg Traditional → John O'connell High School → Marshall (thurgood) High → City Arts & Leadership Academy → Nea Community Learning Center → Compare all similar →Enrollment trend & projection
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) | ~474 | -1 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2029) | ~472 | -3 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2031) | ~471 | -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 San Francisco County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.
Gateway High School's enrollment is tracking San Francisco County's baseline (-0.9% vs. -1.6%), and 94.6% stability is elite. The demographic tide is the headwind; you're holding your share.
26 of 479 students who enrolled at Gateway High School this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (5.4% 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 5.8 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 — 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.
Local: 56.0%
Federal: 7.8%
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).
+15.0 pp above peer median (24.2%) · Ranked #2 of 5 similar schools
18.5%
24.2%
53.3%
39.2%
Higher than 82% of California high schools (1105 ranked, ≥50 seniors)
Gateway High School's UC Reach of 39.2% is in the top quartile statewide (median 18.5%; top 25% bar 32.0%) — but it's still below the top-10% bar of 53.3%.
For context, the elite tier (top 1%) clears 102.7% — a gap of 64 pp from where this school sits.
Overall, Gateway High School's UC Reach is higher than 82% of California high schools (1105 ranked).
Gateway High School — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot
Public · San Francisco · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools
- ▸On UC Reach, Gateway High School sits near the top of its similar-school group (ranked #2 of 5): 39% vs. a peer median of 24%.
- ▸Its UC Reach has risen 3 points since 2018.
- ▸Senior-class enrollment is down 1% (116→115 from 2018 to 2026), outpacing the peer-group median of -8%.
- ▸At its recent rate (-0.2%/yr), enrollment projects to ~472 by 2029 — about 3 fewer students than today.
Enrollment projection
That's about 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gateway High School | Public | 475 | 39.2% | -1% |
| Peer-group median | 24.2% | -8% | ||
| Raoul Wallenberg Traditional | Public | 504 | 32.4% | -21% |
| John O'connell High School | Public | 475 | 11.3% | -12% |
| Marshall (thurgood) High | Public | 420 | — | +15% |
| City Arts & Leadership Academy | Public | 393 | — | +33% |
| Nea Community Learning Center | Public | 442 | 16.0% | +7% |
| Asawa (ruth) Sf Sch Of The Arts, A Public School | Public | 664 | — | -10% |
| Oakland Military Institute, College Preparatory Academy | Public | 501 | — | -52% |
| Oceana High School | Public | 450 | 50.7% | -26% |
| Five Keys Charter (sf Sheriff's) | Public | 753 | — | +65% |
| S.f. International High | Public | 271 | — | -7% |
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 | 3.96 | 10.6% | 12.1% | -1.4pp | On target |
| UCLA | 3.98 | 11.6% | 9.2% | +2.5pp | On target |
| UC San Diego | 3.89 | 20.5% | 22.6% | -2.1pp | On target |
| UC Santa Barbara | 3.84 | 21.4% | 27.1% | -5.6pp | Under |
| UC Davis | 3.95 | 43.5% | 32.5% | +11.0pp | Over |
Where Gateway High School sits vs. all California schools ⓘ
Overall, this school admits its UC applicants in line with what their GPAs predict (21.7% actual vs. 20.6% 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 | 47 | 5 | 3 | 10.6% | 4.2% | 60.0% | 3.96 | 4.23 |
| UCLA → Elite | 43 | 5 | — | 11.6% | 4.2% | — | 3.98 | 4.24 |
| UC San Diego → Selective | 39 | 8 | — | 20.5% | 6.7% | — | 3.89 | 4.25 |
| UC Santa Barbara → Selective | 42 | 9 | 3 | 21.4% | 7.5% | 33.3% | 3.84 | 4.27 |
| UC Irvine → Selective | 28 | — | — | — | — | — | 3.99 | — |
| UC Davis → | 46 | 20 | 5 | 43.5% | 16.7% | 25.0% | 3.95 | 4.21 |