Jordan High
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If this trend holds (-1.3%/yr, Total enrollment)
At per-pupil funding of $ / student:
| Horizon | Projected Total enrollment | Change | Funding impact / yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 yr (2027) | ~737 | -10 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2029) | ~718 | -29 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2031) | ~699 | -48 | $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 Los Angeles County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.
Enrollment -28.3% vs. county -8.2% AND stability (69.9%) below the county median. Recruitment and retention both under pressure — likely a foundational rather than tactical problem. Chronic absenteeism is also at 49.1% (up +12.8 pts from 2016-17) — engagement and demand are both signaling decline.
283 of 940 students who enrolled at Jordan High this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (30.1% 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 12.8 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 — Los Angeles 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: 29.8%
Federal: 18.5%
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 Los Angeles 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).
+6.9 pp above peer median (20.3%) · Ranked #2 of 6 similar schools
18.5%
53.3%
27.2%
Higher than 68% of California high schools (1105 ranked, ≥50 seniors)
Jordan High's UC Reach of 27.2% is above the California median (18.5%). The top 10% of CA schools achieve 53.3% or higher.
For context, the elite tier (top 1%) clears 102.7% — a gap of 76 pp from where this school sits.
Overall, Jordan High's UC Reach is higher than 68% of California high schools (1105 ranked).
Jordan High — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot
Public · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools
- ▸On UC Reach, Jordan High sits near the top of its similar-school group (ranked #2 of 6): 27% vs. a peer median of 20%.
- ▸Its UC Reach has slipped 8 points since 2018 — worth watching.
- ▸Senior-class enrollment is down 28% (180→129 from 2018 to 2026), trailing the peer-group median of +12%.
- ▸At its recent rate (-1.3%/yr), enrollment projects to ~718 by 2029 — about 29 fewer students than today.
Enrollment projection
That's about 29 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jordan High | Public | 747 | 27.2% | -28% |
| Peer-group median | 20.3% | +12% | ||
| Linda Esperanza Marquez High A Huntington Park Institute Of Applied Medicine | Public | 757 | — | +18% |
| Centennial High | Public | 809 | 20.3% | -3% |
| Lifeline Education Charter Sch | Public | 720 | 21.3% | +33% |
| International Studies Learning Center At Legacy High School Complex | Public | 847 | — | +18% |
| George Washington Preparatory | Public | 685 | 17.1% | +27% |
| Alliance Collins Family College-Ready High | Public | 626 | 34.8% | -6% |
| Alliance Margaret M. Bloomfield Technology Academy High | Public | 590 | — | +20% |
| Alliance Judy Ivie Burton Technology Academy High | Public | 616 | — | +3% |
| Linda Esperanza Marquez High B Libra Academy | Public | 614 | — | +6% |
| Mervyn M Dymally High School | Public | 580 | 8.3% | -2% |
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 | 3.70 | 7.5% | 13.1% | -5.6pp | Under |
| UCLA | 3.72 | 4.2% | 9.3% | -5.1pp | Under |
| UC San Diego | 3.65 | 25.0% | 29.8% | -4.8pp | On target |
| UC Santa Barbara | 3.60 | 40.0% | 29.5% | +10.5pp | Over |
| UC Davis | 3.61 | 18.2% | 32.6% | -14.4pp | Under |
Where Jordan High sits vs. all California schools ⓘ
Overall, this school admits its UC applicants in line with what their GPAs predict (16.7% 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 | 40 | 3 | — | 7.5% | 2.2% | — | 3.70 | — |
| UCLA → Elite | 72 | 3 | 3 | 4.2% | 2.2% | 100.0% | 3.72 | — |
| UC San Diego → Selective | 52 | 13 | 3 | 25.0% | 9.6% | 23.1% | 3.65 | 4.08 |
| UC Santa Barbara → Selective | 35 | 14 | 7 | 40.0% | 10.3% | 50.0% | 3.60 | 3.99 |
| UC Irvine → Selective | 72 | — | — | — | — | — | 3.70 | — |
| UC Davis → | 22 | 4 | — | 18.2% | 2.9% | — | 3.61 | — |