Hamilton High School
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Mt San Jacinto High School → Empire Springs Charter School → Western Center Academy → San Jacinto Leadership Academy - Magnet → Susan H. Nelson High School → Compare all similar →Enrollment trend & projection
If this trend holds (+6.6%/yr, Total enrollment)
At per-pupil funding of $ / student:
| Horizon | Projected Total enrollment | Change | Funding impact / yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 yr (2027) | ~504 | +31 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2029) | ~573 | +100 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2031) | ~651 | +178 | $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 Riverside County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.
Enrollment -24.6% vs. county -2.7% AND stability (82.3%) below the county median. Recruitment and retention both under pressure — likely a foundational rather than tactical problem. Chronic absenteeism is also at 44.3% (up +27.6 pts from 2016-17) — engagement and demand are both signaling decline.
51 of 288 students who enrolled at Hamilton High School this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (17.7% 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 28.1 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 — Hemet 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: 25.6%
Federal: 13.7%
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 Hemet 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).
Hamilton High School — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot
Public · Anza · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools
- ▸Senior-class enrollment is down 25% (69→52 from 2018 to 2026), trailing the peer-group median of +5%.
- ▸Enrollment has been growing (+6.6%/yr); projects to ~573 by 2029.
Enrollment projection
Your school vs. its 10 most similar nearby schools
| School | Type | Size | UC Reach | Enroll. trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hamilton High School | Public | 473 | — | -25% |
| Peer-group median | 25.1% | +5% | ||
| Mt San Jacinto High School | Public | 310 | — | -17% |
| Empire Springs Charter School | Public | 519 | — | +15% |
| Western Center Academy | Public | 770 | 26.0% | +41% |
| San Jacinto Leadership Academy - Magnet | Public | 760 | — | -1% |
| Susan H. Nelson High School | Public | 332 | — | +28% |
| Desert Learning Academy | Public | 228 | — | -6% |
| Jcs - Pine Hills | Public | 747 | — | +27% |
| Nuview Bridge Early College Hs | Public | 665 | 22.9% | +10% |
| Mountain View High | Public | 216 | — | +0% |
| Cathedral City High School | Public | 1267 | 25.1% | -28% |
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 →
UC Outcomes Trend — 2019–2025
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UCLA → Elite | 6 | — | — | — | — | — | 3.62 | — |
| UC San Diego → Selective | 8 | — | — | — | — | — | 3.78 | — |
| UC Irvine → Selective | 5 | — | — | — | — | — | 3.56 | — |