Heritage High School
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Liberty High → Freedom High School → Deer Valley High School → Clayton Valley Charter High → Dougherty Valley High School → Compare all similar →Enrollment trend & projection
If this trend holds (+0.3%/yr, Total enrollment)
At per-pupil funding of $ / student:
| Horizon | Projected Total enrollment | Change | Funding impact / yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 yr (2027) | ~2,636 | +7 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2029) | ~2,650 | +21 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2031) | ~2,665 | +36 | $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 Contra Costa County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.
Heritage High School outperformed Contra Costa County on enrollment (school +3.1% vs. county -3.2%) AND maintains 93.6% stability. Replicable model — worth documenting what's working.
169 of 2,653 students who enrolled at Heritage High School this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (6.4% 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 7.4 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 — Liberty Union High (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: 48.3%
Federal: 5.6%
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 Liberty Union High 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).
-6.3 pp vs. peer median (20.5%) · Ranked #7 of 11 similar schools
18.5%
53.3%
14.2%
Higher than 38% of California high schools (1105 ranked, ≥50 seniors)
Heritage High School's UC Reach of 14.2% is below the California median (18.5%). The top 10% of CA schools achieve 53.3% or higher.
But in Contra Costa County, where the local median is 25.6% and the top-10% bar is 58.5%, this score is mid-pack rather than exceptional — typical of its market rather than a standout.
Overall, Heritage High School's UC Reach is higher than 38% of California high schools (1105 ranked).
Heritage High School — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot
Public · Brentwood · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools
- ▸On UC Reach, Heritage High School sits in the middle of its similar-school group (ranked #7 of 11): 14% vs. a peer median of 20%.
- ▸Its UC Reach has risen 2 points since 2018.
- ▸Across the top-6 UC campuses, Heritage High School is admitting at roughly -7 percentage points below what its average applicant GPA (3.817) alone would predict (14% actual vs. 21% expected). That's worth understanding — it can reflect grade inflation that UC sees through, weaker holistic-review materials at the margin, or applicants concentrating at more selective campuses than typical. Not a verdict; a signal.
- ▸Senior-class enrollment is up 3% (614→633 from 2018 to 2026), trailing the peer-group median of +10%.
- ▸Enrollment has been growing (+0.3%/yr); projects to ~2650 by 2029.
Enrollment projection
Your school vs. its 10 most similar nearby schools
| School | Type | Size | UC Reach | Enroll. trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heritage High School | Public | 2629 | 14.2% | +3% |
| Peer-group median | 20.5% | +10% | ||
| Liberty High | Public | 2799 | 9.8% | +6% |
| Freedom High School | Public | 2439 | 11.1% | -6% |
| Deer Valley High School | Public | 1777 | 5.3% | -23% |
| Clayton Valley Charter High | Public | 2368 | 25.6% | +24% |
| Dougherty Valley High School | Public | 2872 | 63.1% | -8% |
| Pittsburg High School | Public | 3485 | 15.3% | +20% |
| Mountain House High School | Public | 2560 | 61.6% | +136% |
| California High School | Public | 2796 | 46.5% | +14% |
| Antioch High School | Public | 1581 | 4.8% | +0% |
| Dublin High School | Public | 2365 | 53.5% | +62% |
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 | 3.83 | 6.1% | 11.7% | -5.6pp | Under |
| UCLA | 3.85 | 6.9% | 8.9% | -2.0pp | On target |
| UC San Diego | 3.82 | 9.5% | 24.5% | -15.0pp | Under |
| UC Santa Barbara | 3.84 | 25.6% | 27.0% | -1.4pp | On target |
| UC Irvine | 3.83 | 12.3% | 20.8% | -8.6pp | Under |
| UC Davis | 3.75 | 22.5% | 32.0% | -9.5pp | Under |
Where Heritage High School sits vs. all California schools ⓘ
Overall, this school admits its UC applicants 7.3 points below what their GPAs predict (13.5% actual vs. 20.8% 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 | 114 | 7 | 5 | 6.1% | 1.2% | 71.4% | 3.83 | 4.14 |
| UCLA → Elite | 101 | 7 | 3 | 6.9% | 1.2% | 42.9% | 3.85 | 4.20 |
| UC San Diego → Selective | 105 | 10 | 5 | 9.5% | 1.7% | 50.0% | 3.82 | 4.16 |
| UC Santa Barbara → Selective | 82 | 21 | — | 25.6% | 3.5% | — | 3.84 | 4.17 |
| UC Irvine → Selective | 106 | 13 | 3 | 12.3% | 2.2% | 23.1% | 3.83 | 4.19 |
| UC Davis → | 120 | 27 | 11 | 22.5% | 4.5% | 40.7% | 3.75 | 4.10 |