Granada High School
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Livermore High School → Foothill High → Amador Valley High School → Dublin High School → Irvington 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) | ~2,130 | -14 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2029) | ~2,102 | -42 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2031) | ~2,074 | -70 | $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 Alameda County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.
Granada High School outperformed Alameda County on enrollment (school +17.2% vs. county +0.6%) AND maintains 94.5% stability. Replicable model — worth documenting what's working.
121 of 2,199 students who enrolled at Granada High School this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (5.5% 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 6.0 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 — Livermore Valley Joint 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: 52.4%
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 Livermore Valley Joint 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).
-26.6 pp vs. peer median (53.2%) · Ranked #9 of 11 similar schools
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26.6%
Higher than 67% of California high schools (1105 ranked, ≥50 seniors)
Granada High School's UC Reach of 26.6% is above the California median (18.5%). The top 10% of CA schools achieve 53.3% or higher.
But in Alameda County, where the local median is 33.7% and the top-10% bar is 68.8%, this score is mid-pack rather than exceptional — typical of its market rather than a standout.
Against similar schools, Granada High School trails the peer-group median (53.2%) — even though it looks strong vs. the state average.
For context, the elite tier (top 1%) clears 102.7% — a gap of 76 pp from where this school sits.
Overall, Granada High School's UC Reach is higher than 67% of California high schools (1105 ranked).
Granada High School — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot
Public · Livermore · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools
- ▸On UC Reach, Granada High School sits near the bottom of its similar-school group (ranked #9 of 11): 27% vs. a peer median of 53%.
- ▸Its UC Reach has risen 4 points since 2018.
- ▸Senior-class enrollment is up 17% (513→601 from 2018 to 2026), outpacing the peer-group median of -2%.
- ▸At its recent rate (-0.7%/yr), enrollment projects to ~2102 by 2029 — about 42 fewer students than today.
Enrollment projection
That's about 42 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Granada High School | Public | 2144 | 26.6% | +17% |
| Peer-group median | 53.2% | -2% | ||
| Livermore High School | Public | 1802 | 20.3% | -7% |
| Foothill High | Public | 2156 | 53.0% | +5% |
| Amador Valley High School | Public | 2556 | 53.7% | -3% |
| Dublin High School | Public | 2365 | 53.5% | +62% |
| Irvington High School | Public | 2141 | 60.6% | -15% |
| Dougherty Valley High School | Public | 2872 | 63.1% | -8% |
| California High School | Public | 2796 | 46.5% | +14% |
| San Ramon Valley High School | Public | 2128 | 26.5% | +10% |
| Washington High School | Public | 1964 | 33.9% | -2% |
| Mission San Jose High School | Public | 1740 | 70.1% | -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 | 4.05 | 10.0% | 13.6% | -3.6pp | On target |
| UCLA | 4.06 | 9.8% | 9.5% | +0.2pp | On target |
| UC San Diego | 4.06 | 27.6% | 18.8% | +8.8pp | Over |
| UC Santa Barbara | 3.99 | 32.7% | 32.3% | +0.4pp | On target |
| UC Irvine | 4.03 | 21.8% | 27.5% | -5.6pp | Under |
| UC Davis | 4.00 | 28.0% | 32.9% | -4.9pp | On target |
Where Granada 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. 22.4% 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 | 110 | 11 | 8 | 10.0% | 1.9% | 72.7% | 4.05 | 4.25 |
| UCLA → Elite | 123 | 12 | 9 | 9.8% | 2.1% | 75.0% | 4.06 | 4.24 |
| UC San Diego → Selective | 116 | 32 | 8 | 27.6% | 5.6% | 25.0% | 4.06 | 4.27 |
| UC Santa Barbara → Selective | 113 | 37 | 7 | 32.7% | 6.5% | 18.9% | 3.99 | 4.26 |
| UC Irvine → Selective | 110 | 24 | — | 21.8% | 4.2% | — | 4.03 | 4.22 |
| UC Davis → | 125 | 35 | 8 | 28.0% | 6.2% | 22.9% | 4.00 | 4.23 |