Kipp San Jose Collegiate
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Downtown College Preparatory → Latino College Prep Academy → James Lick High School → University Preparatory Academy Charter → Opportunity Youth Academy → Compare all similar →Enrollment trend & projection
If this trend holds (+1.0%/yr, Total enrollment)
At per-pupil funding of $ / student:
| Horizon | Projected Total enrollment | Change | Funding impact / yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 yr (2027) | ~535 | +5 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2029) | ~546 | +16 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2031) | ~557 | +27 | $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 Santa Clara County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.
Kipp San Jose Collegiate outperformed Santa Clara County on enrollment (school +38.0% vs. county -6.2%) AND maintains 97.5% stability. Replicable model — worth documenting what's working.
13 of 521 students who enrolled at Kipp San Jose Collegiate this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (2.5% 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.
Low and stable absenteeism — students are engaged and showing up. The leading indicator is healthy.
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 — East Side 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: 51.7%
Federal: 7.1%
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 East Side 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).
+34.3 pp above peer median (8.0%) · Ranked #1 of 6 similar schools
18.5%
8.0%
53.3%
42.3%
Higher than 84% of California high schools (1105 ranked, ≥50 seniors)
Kipp San Jose Collegiate's UC Reach of 42.3% is in the top quartile statewide (median 18.5%; top 25% bar 32.0%) — but it's still below the top-10% bar of 53.3%.
Against similar schools, Kipp San Jose Collegiate stands out clearly — the peer-group median is 8.0%.
For context, the elite tier (top 1%) clears 102.7% — a gap of 60 pp from where this school sits.
Overall, Kipp San Jose Collegiate's UC Reach is higher than 84% of California high schools (1105 ranked).
Kipp San Jose Collegiate — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot
Public · San Jose · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools
- ▸On UC Reach, Kipp San Jose Collegiate sits near the top of its similar-school group (ranked #1 of 6): 42% vs. a peer median of 8%.
- ▸Its UC Reach has slipped 16 points since 2018 — worth watching.
- ▸Senior-class enrollment is up 38% (108→149 from 2018 to 2026), outpacing the peer-group median of -6%.
- ▸Enrollment has been growing (+1.0%/yr); projects to ~546 by 2029.
Enrollment projection
Your school vs. its 10 most similar nearby schools
| School | Type | Size | UC Reach | Enroll. trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kipp San Jose Collegiate | Public | 530 | 42.3% | +38% |
| Peer-group median | 8.0% | -6% | ||
| Downtown College Preparatory | Public | 520 | — | +130% |
| Latino College Prep Academy | Public | 427 | 24.3% | -8% |
| James Lick High School | Public | 788 | 8.0% | -9% |
| University Preparatory Academy Charter | Public | 731 | — | +12% |
| Opportunity Youth Academy | Public | 333 | — | -44% |
| Alpha Cindy Avitia High School | Public | 341 | 9.6% | -4% |
| San Jose High School | Public | 904 | 7.9% | -11% |
| Ace Charter High School | Public | 283 | 3.3% | +19% |
| Gunderson High | Public | 714 | — | -24% |
| Kathleen Macdonald High | Public | 852 | — | +20100% |
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 | 3.87 | 9.1% | 11.6% | -2.5pp | On target |
| UC San Diego | 3.95 | 37.1% | 21.1% | +16.0pp | Over |
| UC Santa Barbara | 3.81 | 32.0% | 26.7% | +5.3pp | Over |
| UC Irvine | 3.87 | 20.4% | 22.1% | -1.6pp | On target |
| UC Davis | 3.80 | 23.9% | 32.0% | -8.1pp | Under |
Where Kipp San Jose Collegiate sits vs. all California schools ⓘ
Overall, this school admits its UC applicants in line with what their GPAs predict (22.4% actual vs. 21.9% 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 | 55 | 5 | 4 | 9.1% | 4.5% | 80.0% | 3.87 | 4.28 |
| UCLA → Elite | 50 | — | — | — | — | — | 3.89 | — |
| UC San Diego → Selective | 35 | 13 | 3 | 37.1% | 11.7% | 23.1% | 3.95 | 4.29 |
| UC Santa Barbara → Selective | 25 | 8 | — | 32.0% | 7.2% | — | 3.81 | 4.30 |
| UC Irvine → Selective | 49 | 10 | — | 20.4% | 9.0% | — | 3.87 | 4.22 |
| UC Davis → | 46 | 11 | — | 23.9% | 9.9% | — | 3.80 | 4.28 |