Heritage Peak Charter School

Rio Linda · Sacramento County
Public Sacramento County ~97 seniors CDS 3476505…
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Enrollment trend & projection

Total enrollment (9–12)
357 (2024)344 (2026)
-3.6%
Grade 12 (graduating class)
84 (2024)77 (2026)
-8.3%

If this trend holds (-1.8%/yr, Total enrollment)

At per-pupil funding of $ / student:

Horizon Projected Total enrollment Change Funding impact / yr
1 yr (2027) ~338 -6 $0
3 yr (2029) ~325 -19 $0
5 yr (2031) ~314 -30 $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 Sacramento County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.

Healthy
Outperforming the market — gaining relative share even as Sacramento County contracts.

Heritage Peak Charter School is shrinking (-8.3%) but Sacramento County is shrinking faster (-10.9%), so Heritage Peak Charter School is winning roughly 2.6 pp of relative market share. Combined with 90.9% stability (county median 80.8%), this reflects a school that families actively chose during a market contraction. Replicable model — worth documenting what's working.

-8.3%  school enrollment (2024–2026)
-10.9%  Sacramento County baseline
+2.6pp  gap vs. county
90.9%  retention (county median 80.8%)
Enrollment — indexed to 100 at 2024
Stability rate by year (raw %)
Stability rate
90.9%
330 of 363 students

33 of 363 students who enrolled at Heritage Peak Charter School this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (9.1% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.

Sacramento County median
80.8% · school is in the 83rd percentile of 77 HS
Statewide median
87.2% · in the 70th percentile of 1,688 HS

Stability by student group

White (707) 92.5%
Socio. disadvantaged (685) 92.1%
Hispanic / Latino (316) 88.9%
English learners (193) 94.3%
Students w/ disabilities (177) 91.5%
Asian (73) 93.2%

Nearest peer high schools

Futures High School 79.4% Sava - Sacramento Academic And Vocational Academy 49.4% Marconi Learning Academy 46.3% Umoja International Academy 93.0% Sacramento Charter High 77.2%

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.

Chronic absent
0.0%
0 of 356 students

Low and stable absenteeism — students are engaged and showing up. The leading indicator is healthy.

Sacramento County median
25.8% · school is better than 100% of 75 HS
Statewide median
22.9%
Chronic absenteeism by year (raw %)

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.

ELA — met or exceeded
n = 81
63.0%
incl. 25.9% exceeded
+16.9 pts above Sacramento County median (46.1%) · CA median 54.3% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 79.3%
Math — met or exceeded
n = 81
21.0%
incl. 7.4% exceeded
+3.3 pts above Sacramento County median (17.7%) · CA median 21.1% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 53.6%

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

White 55% +4.2
Hispanic / Latino 25% -3.0
Asian 6%
Black / African Am. 6% +1.6
Filipino 3%
Two or more 2% -2.5
Pacific Islander 2%
American Indian 1% -1.6

Program subgroups

Students w/ disabilities 60% -13.7
Socioeconomically disadv. 14% +2.7
English learners 6% -5.4

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.

University of California outcomes · Class of 2025
UC Reach
N/A
UC Application Reach
12.4%
12 applications
In context: CA median 78.3% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 245.8% · Sacramento Co. Top 10% ≥ 143.7% · higher than 2% of CA HS.
UC Admit Rate
N/A
None / 12 applications
UC Yield Rate
N/A
None enrolled of None admitted
Yield vs. Enrollment Reach: Yield answers "of UC admits, what % chose UC?" — denominator is just the admits. A small admitted cohort can post a low yield even when the school sends a healthy share of its class to UC.
UC Enrollment Reach
N/A
None enrollees / 97 seniors
Enrollment Reach vs. Yield: Reach answers "of the whole senior class, what % ended up at UC?" — denominator is everyone. High Yield with low Enrollment Reach is common at elite privates: most admits matriculate, but the school sends most of its class to non-UC selective colleges.
A-G Completion
44%
41 of 94 graduates · 2024-25 cohort
In context: CA median 55.9% · -12.3 pp vs. median · Sacramento Co. 50.9%.
Selective UC Reach (UCSD, UCSB, UCI, UCD)
N/A
Elite UC Reach (UCB + UCLA)
N/A
Senior Class Size
97
CDE grade 12 (exact)
Total School Enrollment
351
All grades · CDE Census Day

Heritage Peak Charter School — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot

Public · Rio Linda · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools

  • Senior-class enrollment is down 8% (84→77 from 2024 to 2026), tracking the peer-group median of -6%.
  • In business terms, this is market-share growth during a market contraction. Sacramento County's senior population shrank 11% over the same window — Heritage Peak Charter School only shrank 8%. So Heritage Peak Charter School picked up about 3 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 (-1.8%/yr), enrollment projects to ~325 by 2029 — about 19 fewer students than today.

Enrollment projection

344 students (2026)
~325 projected (2029)
at -1.8%/yr

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
Heritage Peak Charter School Public 344 -8%
Peer-group median 8.6% -6%
Futures High School Public 394 4.3% -13%
Sava - Sacramento Academic And Vocational Academy Public 250 -94%
Marconi Learning Academy Public 438 +222%
Umoja International Academy Public 376 10.0% -4%
Sacramento Charter High Public 375 -45%
Highlands Community Charter Public 487 -77%
Aspire Alexander Twilight Secondary Academy Public 508 +218%
San Juan High School Public 523 6.4% -8%
Washington Middle College Hs Public 206 8.6% +371%
Natomas Pacific Pathways Prep Public 634 29.4% +10%

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 →

Avg. Applicant GPA · top-6 UCs
3.98

Campus Breakdown — 2025

Campus Applicants Admits Enrollees Admit Rate UC Reach Yield Avg GPA (App) Avg GPA (Adm)
UC Berkeley → Elite 7 4.02
UC Davis → 5 3.92
⚠ Campus-level totals may count one student admitted to multiple UC campuses more than once. Admit Volume metrics are not the same as UC Reach, which requires unique-student counts. See methodology →

What This Means

A relatively small share of the senior class is entering the UC application pipeline. This may signal limited A-G completion, UC awareness gaps, or counseling capacity constraints. Broadening access is the highest-leverage opportunity for this school.
Note: admit counts used here are campus-level totals. A student admitted to both UCLA and UCSD is counted twice. When UCOP unique-student data becomes available it will be loaded automatically and the labels will update.
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