John Adams Academy - Lincoln

Lincoln · Placer County · Western Placer Unified
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Enrollment trend & projection

Total enrollment (9–12)
177 (2018)1,390 (2026)
+685.3%
Grade 12 (graduating class)
14 (2023)16 (2026)
+14.3%

If this trend holds (+29.4%/yr, Total enrollment)

At per-pupil funding of $ / student:

Horizon Projected Total enrollment Change Funding impact / yr
1 yr (2027) ~1,798 +408 $0
3 yr (2029) ~3,011 +1621 $0
5 yr (2031) ~5,040 +3650 $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 Placer County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.

Mixed signal
Demand outpacing county is masking internal churn.

Enrollment growth is beating Placer County (+14.3% vs. +5.8%), but 40 of 201 students didn't maintain continuous enrollment. Why are families leaving once enrolled?

+14.3%  school enrollment (2023–2026)
+5.8%  Placer County baseline
+8.5pp  gap vs. county
80.1%  retention (county median 90.8%)
Enrollment — indexed to 100 at 2023
Stability rate by year (raw %)
Stability rate
80.1%
161 of 201 students

40 of 201 students who enrolled at John Adams Academy - Lincoln this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (19.9% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.

Placer County median
90.8% · school is in the 22nd percentile of 23 HS
Statewide median
87.2% · in the 30th percentile of 1,688 HS

Stability by student group

White (924) 87.2%
Socio. disadvantaged (388) 83.8%
Hispanic / Latino (365) 86.0%
Students w/ disabilities (234) 86.3%
Two or more races (82) 87.8%
English learners (81) 82.7%

Nearest peer high schools

Twelve Bridges High School 94.7% Lincoln High School 90.5% Roseville High School 89.5% Del Oro High School 92.5% Rocklin High School 95.1%

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
23.4%
43 of 184 students

Absenteeism is down 9.2 pp since 2020-21. Engagement improving — a positive trajectory worth understanding and reinforcing.

Placer County median
15.1% · school is worse than 82% of 22 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 = 21
81.0%
incl. 38.1% exceeded
★ Top 10% CA
+13.7 pts above Placer County median (67.3%) · CA median 54.3% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 79.3%
Math — met or exceeded
n = 21
38.1%
incl. 23.8% exceeded
-2.1 pts vs. Placer County median (40.2%) · 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 61% -3.4
Hispanic / Latino 26% +4.6
Filipino 6%
Asian 2% +1.2
Two or more 2% -2.3
Black / African Am. 1%
Pacific Islander 1%
American Indian 1%

Program subgroups

Students w/ disabilities 13% -3.6
Socioeconomically disadv. 8% +2.1

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 — Western Placer 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.

Total revenue
$134.1M
+21.8% since FY2017
Per-pupil revenue
$18,935
7,081 students enrolled
Revenue mix
State: 30.7%
Local: 61.9%
Federal: 7.4%
Instruction share
59.0%
of current spending · $7,458/pupil
Long-term debt
$316.8M
+49.3% since FY2017
Total revenue by year ($M)
Total expenditure by year ($M)

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 Western Placer 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).

University of California outcomes · Class of 2024
UC Reach
N/A
UC Application Reach
N/A
None applications
UC Admit Rate
N/A
None / None 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 / 20 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
69%
24 of 35 graduates · 2024-25 cohort
In context: CA median 55.9% · +12.7 pp above · Placer Co. 67.3%.
Selective UC Reach (UCSD, UCSB, UCI, UCD)
N/A
Elite UC Reach (UCB + UCLA)
N/A
Senior Class Size
20
CDE grade 12 (exact)
Total School Enrollment
1,420
All grades · CDE Census Day

John Adams Academy - Lincoln — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot

Public · Lincoln · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools

  • Senior-class enrollment is up 14% (14→16 from 2023 to 2026), outpacing the peer-group median of -3%.
  • Enrollment has been growing (+29.4%/yr); projects to ~3011 by 2029.

Enrollment projection

1390 students (2026)
~3011 projected (2029)
at +29.4%/yr

Your school vs. its 10 most similar nearby schools

School Type Size UC Reach Enroll. trend
John Adams Academy - Lincoln Public 1390 +14%
Peer-group median 14.8% -3%
Twelve Bridges High School Public 1377 14.8% +28%
Lincoln High School Public 1117 3.9% -34%
Roseville High School Public 1458 13.3% -25%
Del Oro High School Public 1636 15.4% -11%
Rocklin High School Public 1861 20.3% -9%
Whitney High School Public 2080 26.7% +16%
Oakmont High School Public 1283 15.7% -30%
John Adams Academy - Roseville Public 1630 +11%
Center High School Public 1257 8.8% +3%
Foothill High Public 1432 11.2% +34%

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 →

Campus Breakdown — 2024

Campus Applicants Admits Enrollees Admit Rate UC Reach Yield Avg GPA (App) Avg GPA (Adm)
UC Berkeley → Elite
UCLA → Elite
UC San Diego → Selective
UC Santa Barbara → Selective
UC Irvine → Selective
UC Davis →
⚠ 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

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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