Highlands Community Charter
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Aspire Alexander Twilight Secondary Academy → Marconi Learning Academy → Futures High School → San Juan High School → Umoja International Academy → Compare all similar →No UC admissions data on file for Highlands Community Charter.
This school doesn't appear in UCOP's source-school records (it may send few or no applicants to UC). Its enrollment trend and similar-school comparison are still below.
Enrollment trend & projection
If this trend holds (-15.4%/yr, Total enrollment)
At per-pupil funding of $ / student:
| Horizon | Projected Total enrollment | Change | Funding impact / yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 yr (2027) | ~412 | -75 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2029) | ~295 | -192 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2031) | ~211 | -276 | $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.
Enrollment -77.1% vs. county +3.0% AND stability (41.5%) below the county median. Recruitment and retention both under pressure — likely a foundational rather than tactical problem. Chronic absenteeism is also at 95.3% (up +10.6 pts from 2016-17) — engagement and demand are both signaling decline.
9,560 of 16,345 students who enrolled at Highlands Community Charter this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (58.5% 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 10.6 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).
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 — Twin Rivers 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: 18.8%
Federal: 19.4%
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 Twin Rivers 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).
Highlands Community Charter — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot
Public · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools
- ▸Senior-class enrollment is down 77% (358→82 from 2018 to 2026), trailing the peer-group median of -6%.
- ▸At its recent rate (-15.4%/yr), enrollment projects to ~295 by 2029 — about 192 fewer students than today.
Enrollment projection
That's about 192 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Highlands Community Charter | Public | 487 | — | -77% |
| Peer-group median | 8.2% | -6% | ||
| Aspire Alexander Twilight Secondary Academy | Public | 508 | — | +218% |
| Marconi Learning Academy | Public | 438 | — | +222% |
| Futures High School | Public | 394 | 4.3% | -13% |
| San Juan High School | Public | 523 | 6.4% | -8% |
| Umoja International Academy | Public | 376 | 10.0% | -4% |
| Heritage Peak Charter School | Public | 344 | — | -8% |
| Sacramento Charter High | Public | 375 | — | -45% |
| Natomas Pacific Pathways Prep | Public | 634 | 29.4% | +10% |
| Sava - Sacramento Academic And Vocational Academy - Scusd | Public | 616 | — | -16% |
| California Innovative Career Academy | Public | 800 | — | +36% |
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 →