Jefferson High School
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El Camino High → Burton (phillip And Sala) Academic High → Balboa High School → Westmoor High School → Mission Senior High School → Compare all similar →Enrollment trend & projection
If this trend holds (-1.2%/yr, Total enrollment)
At per-pupil funding of $ / student:
| Horizon | Projected Total enrollment | Change | Funding impact / yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 yr (2027) | ~1,029 | -12 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2029) | ~1,005 | -36 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2031) | ~981 | -60 | $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 San Mateo County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.
Enrollment growth is beating San Mateo County (+8.9% vs. -5.3%), but 123 of 1136 students didn't maintain continuous enrollment. Why are families leaving once enrolled? Chronic absenteeism is also at 32.7% (up +8.6 pts from 2016-17) — engagement and demand are both signaling decline.
123 of 1,136 students who enrolled at Jefferson High School this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (10.8% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.
Stability by student group
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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 8.6 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).
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 — Jefferson 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: 82.2%
Federal: 5.2%
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 Jefferson 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).
-11.4 pp vs. peer median (25.2%) · Ranked #8 of 8 similar schools
18.5%
25.2%
53.3%
13.8%
Higher than 36% of California high schools (1105 ranked, ≥50 seniors)
Jefferson High School's UC Reach of 13.8% is below the California median (18.5%). The top 10% of CA schools achieve 53.3% or higher.
But in San Mateo County, where the local median is 29.6% and the top-10% bar is 65.8%, this score is mid-pack rather than exceptional — typical of its market rather than a standout.
Overall, Jefferson High School's UC Reach is higher than 36% of California high schools (1105 ranked).
Jefferson High School — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot
Public · Daly City · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools
- ▸On UC Reach, Jefferson High School sits near the bottom of its similar-school group (ranked #8 of 8): 14% vs. a peer median of 25%.
- ▸Its UC Reach has held roughly steady since 2018.
- ▸Senior-class enrollment is up 9% (269→293 from 2018 to 2026), outpacing the peer-group median of -3%.
- ▸At its recent rate (-1.2%/yr), enrollment projects to ~1005 by 2029 — about 36 fewer students than today.
Enrollment projection
That's about 36 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jefferson High School | Public | 1041 | 13.8% | +9% |
| Peer-group median | 25.2% | -3% | ||
| El Camino High | Public | 1051 | 22.5% | -13% |
| Burton (phillip And Sala) Academic High | Public | 1015 | — | +0% |
| Balboa High School | Public | 1195 | 38.0% | +3% |
| Westmoor High School | Public | 1273 | 25.2% | -21% |
| Mission Senior High School | Public | 948 | 57.3% | +6% |
| Mission High School | Public | 948 | — | +6% |
| Mission High | Public | 948 | — | -6% |
| South San Francisco Hs | Public | 1224 | 14.5% | -26% |
| Capuchino High School | Public | 1086 | 14.2% | -1% |
| Mills High School | Public | 1120 | 59.3% | -16% |
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 | 3.94 | 6.2% | 11.9% | -5.7pp | Under |
| UCLA | 3.94 | 9.4% | 9.1% | +0.3pp | On target |
| UC San Diego | 3.94 | 30.3% | 21.3% | +9.0pp | Over |
| UC Santa Barbara | 3.89 | 39.1% | 28.2% | +11.0pp | Over |
| UC Davis | 3.83 | 23.9% | 32.1% | -8.2pp | Under |
Where Jefferson High School sits vs. all California schools ⓘ
Overall, this school admits its UC applicants in line with what their GPAs predict (19.8% actual vs. 20.3% 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 | 48 | 3 | — | 6.2% | 1.2% | — | 3.94 | — |
| UCLA → Elite | 32 | 3 | 3 | 9.4% | 1.2% | 100.0% | 3.94 | — |
| UC San Diego → Selective | 33 | 10 | — | 30.3% | 3.8% | — | 3.94 | 4.22 |
| UC Santa Barbara → Selective | 23 | 9 | — | 39.1% | 3.5% | — | 3.89 | 4.19 |
| UC Irvine → Selective | 32 | — | — | — | — | — | 3.94 | — |
| UC Davis → | 46 | 11 | 7 | 23.9% | 4.2% | 63.6% | 3.83 | 4.20 |