Hemet High School
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If this trend holds (+0.4%/yr, Total enrollment)
At per-pupil funding of $ / student:
| Horizon | Projected Total enrollment | Change | Funding impact / yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 yr (2027) | ~2,488 | +10 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2029) | ~2,509 | +31 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2031) | ~2,531 | +53 | $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.
On the surface Hemet High School looks fine — enrollment is -0.9% vs. Riverside County -2.7%, and 84.1% of students stay through year-end. But <strong>chronic absenteeism is at 33.5%, up +15.8 pts since 2016-17 (county median 27.8%). Disengagement leads departure — families pull back from the day-to-day before they formally leave. The demand signal usually follows within 2–3 years.
415 of 2,612 students who enrolled at Hemet High School this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (15.9% 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 15.8 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 — 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).
-4.7 pp vs. peer median (13.8%) · Ranked #10 of 11 similar schools
18.5%
13.8%
53.3%
9.1%
Higher than 15% of California high schools (1105 ranked, ≥50 seniors)
Hemet High School's UC Reach of 9.1% is below the California median (18.5%). The top 10% of CA schools achieve 53.3% or higher.
Overall, Hemet High School's UC Reach is higher than 15% of California high schools (1105 ranked).
Hemet High School — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot
Public · Hemet · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools
- ▸On UC Reach, Hemet High School sits near the bottom of its similar-school group (ranked #10 of 11): 9% vs. a peer median of 14%.
- ▸Its UC Reach has risen 3 points since 2018.
- ▸Senior-class enrollment is down 1% (567→562 from 2018 to 2026), trailing the peer-group median of +1%.
- ▸Enrollment has been growing (+0.4%/yr); projects to ~2509 by 2029.
Enrollment projection
Your school vs. its 10 most similar nearby schools
| School | Type | Size | UC Reach | Enroll. trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hemet High School | Public | 2478 | 9.1% | -1% |
| Peer-group median | 13.8% | +1% | ||
| San Jacinto High School | Public | 2350 | 11.6% | -5% |
| West Valley High School | Public | 1854 | 5.8% | +5% |
| Liberty High | Public | 2476 | 19.2% | +34% |
| Heritage High | Public | 2396 | 14.0% | -16% |
| San Jacinto Valley Academy | Public | 1718 | 13.5% | +119% |
| Tahquitz High School | Public | 1692 | 10.0% | +4% |
| Paloma Valley High School | Public | 2639 | 11.7% | -17% |
| Orange Vista High School | Public | 2332 | 20.3% | +25% |
| Temecula Valley High School | Public | 2703 | 24.9% | -2% |
| Rancho Verde High School | Public | 2091 | 22.5% | -37% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UCLA | 3.77 | 9.8% | 9.1% | +0.7pp | On target |
| UC San Diego | 3.67 | 34.7% | 29.1% | +5.6pp | Over |
| UC Santa Barbara | 3.58 | 40.5% | 30.2% | +10.3pp | Over |
| UC Irvine | 3.81 | 26.8% | 20.1% | +6.7pp | Over |
| UC Davis | 3.49 | 17.6% | 33.5% | -15.9pp | Under |
Where Hemet High School sits vs. all California schools ⓘ
Overall, this school admits its UC applicants in line with what their GPAs predict (27.0% actual vs. 23.3% 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 | 23 | — | — | — | — | — | 3.72 | — |
| UCLA → Elite | 41 | 4 | 3 | 9.8% | 0.7% | 75.0% | 3.77 | — |
| UC San Diego → Selective | 49 | 17 | 4 | 34.7% | 3.1% | 23.5% | 3.67 | 4.16 |
| UC Santa Barbara → Selective | 37 | 15 | 5 | 40.5% | 2.7% | 33.3% | 3.58 | 4.09 |
| UC Irvine → Selective | 41 | 11 | — | 26.8% | 2.0% | — | 3.81 | 4.20 |
| UC Davis → | 17 | 3 | — | 17.6% | 0.5% | — | 3.49 | — |