Herbert Hoover High
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John Marshall High School → Glendale High School → Ulysses S Grant High School → South Pasadena High School → Fairfax High School → Compare all similar →Enrollment trend & projection
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) | ~1,577 | -7 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2029) | ~1,565 | -19 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2031) | ~1,552 | -32 | $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 Los Angeles County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.
Herbert Hoover High is recruiting families faster than Los Angeles County is shrinking (school -3.3% vs. county -8.2%), but 193 students didn't make it to year-end. The recruitment engine works; the mid-year exits are worth understanding. Chronic absenteeism is rising (22.3%, +10.3 pts since 2016-17) — a watch signal worth monitoring as a leading indicator.
193 of 1,704 students who enrolled at Herbert Hoover High this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (11.3% 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 10.3 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 — Glendale 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: 32.9%
Federal: 15.8%
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 Glendale 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).
-13.0 pp vs. peer median (26.9%) · Ranked #10 of 11 similar schools
18.5%
26.9%
53.3%
13.9%
Higher than 37% of California high schools (1105 ranked, ≥50 seniors)
Herbert Hoover High's UC Reach of 13.9% is below the California median (18.5%). The top 10% of CA schools achieve 53.3% or higher.
Overall, Herbert Hoover High's UC Reach is higher than 37% of California high schools (1105 ranked).
Herbert Hoover High — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot
Public · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools
- ▸On UC Reach, Herbert Hoover High sits near the bottom of its similar-school group (ranked #10 of 11): 14% vs. a peer median of 27%.
- ▸Its UC Reach has risen 3 points since 2018.
- ▸Senior-class enrollment is down 3% (391→378 from 2018 to 2026), tracking the peer-group median of -5%.
- ▸In business terms, this is market-share growth during a market contraction. Los Angeles County's senior population shrank 8% over the same window — Herbert Hoover High only shrank 3%. So Herbert Hoover High picked up about 5 percentage points of relative share — families chose it over the alternatives even as the overall pool got smaller. That's overperforming the market in a shrinking market.
- ▸At its recent rate (-0.4%/yr), enrollment projects to ~1565 by 2029 — about 19 fewer students than today.
Enrollment projection
That's about 19 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Herbert Hoover High | Public | 1584 | 13.9% | -3% |
| Peer-group median | 26.9% | -5% | ||
| John Marshall High School | Public | 1859 | 28.0% | -14% |
| Glendale High School | Public | 2051 | 9.7% | -16% |
| Ulysses S Grant High School | Public | 1610 | 25.8% | -3% |
| South Pasadena High School | Public | 1496 | 46.2% | +3% |
| Fairfax High School | Public | 1459 | 28.3% | -28% |
| Eagle Rock High School | Public | 2070 | 35.2% | -22% |
| LA Canada High School | Public | 2007 | 59.4% | -7% |
| John Muir High School | Public | 1282 | 17.5% | +50% |
| Burbank Senior High School | Public | 2331 | 19.6% | -3% |
| Burbank High | Public | 2331 | 20.1% | -3% |
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 | 3.89 | 9.5% | 9.0% | +0.5pp | On target |
| UC San Diego | 3.93 | 16.4% | 21.5% | -5.1pp | Under |
| UC Santa Barbara | 3.94 | 32.1% | 30.1% | +2.0pp | On target |
| UC Irvine | 3.94 | 9.4% | 24.2% | -14.8pp | Under |
| UC Davis | 3.92 | 51.9% | 32.4% | +19.5pp | Over |
Where Herbert Hoover High sits vs. all California schools ⓘ
Overall, this school admits its UC applicants in line with what their GPAs predict (19.6% actual vs. 21.6% 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 | 44 | — | — | — | — | — | 3.95 | — |
| UCLA → Elite | 74 | 7 | 7 | 9.5% | 1.8% | 100.0% | 3.89 | 4.21 |
| UC San Diego → Selective | 55 | 9 | 5 | 16.4% | 2.3% | 55.6% | 3.93 | 4.24 |
| UC Santa Barbara → Selective | 56 | 18 | 3 | 32.1% | 4.6% | 16.7% | 3.94 | 4.23 |
| UC Irvine → Selective | 64 | 6 | — | 9.4% | 1.5% | — | 3.94 | 4.29 |
| UC Davis → | 27 | 14 | 5 | 51.9% | 3.6% | 35.7% | 3.92 | 4.15 |