Laguna Creek High School
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Monterey Trail High School → Cosumnes Oaks High School → Sheldon High School → Franklin High School → Pleasant Grove High School → Compare all similar →Enrollment trend & projection
If this trend holds (+2.6%/yr, Total enrollment)
At per-pupil funding of $ / student:
| Horizon | Projected Total enrollment | Change | Funding impact / yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 yr (2027) | ~2,311 | +59 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2029) | ~2,435 | +183 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2031) | ~2,566 | +314 | $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.
Laguna Creek High School outperformed Sacramento County on enrollment (school +47.6% vs. county +3.0%) AND maintains 88.8% stability. Replicable model — worth documenting what's working. Chronic absenteeism is rising (20.5%, +11.3 pts since 2016-17) — a watch signal worth monitoring as a leading indicator.
255 of 2,269 students who enrolled at Laguna Creek High School this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (11.2% 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 11.3 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 — Elk Grove 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: 22.4%
Federal: 10.1%
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 Elk Grove 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).
-4.6 pp vs. peer median (19.3%) · Ranked #10 of 11 similar schools
18.5%
53.3%
14.7%
Higher than 40% of California high schools (1105 ranked, ≥50 seniors)
Laguna Creek High School's UC Reach of 14.7% is below the California median (18.5%). The top 10% of CA schools achieve 53.3% or higher.
Overall, Laguna Creek High School's UC Reach is higher than 40% of California high schools (1105 ranked).
Laguna Creek High School — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot
Public · Elk Grove · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools
- ▸On UC Reach, Laguna Creek High School sits near the bottom of its similar-school group (ranked #10 of 11): 15% vs. a peer median of 19%.
- ▸Its UC Reach has risen 2 points since 2018.
- ▸Senior-class enrollment is up 48% (420→620 from 2018 to 2026), outpacing the peer-group median of +6%.
- ▸Enrollment has been growing (+2.6%/yr); projects to ~2435 by 2029.
Enrollment projection
Your school vs. its 10 most similar nearby schools
| School | Type | Size | UC Reach | Enroll. trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laguna Creek High School | Public | 2252 | 14.7% | +48% |
| Peer-group median | 19.3% | +6% | ||
| Monterey Trail High School | Public | 2203 | 17.3% | +5% |
| Cosumnes Oaks High School | Public | 2190 | 42.1% | -10% |
| Sheldon High School | Public | 2357 | 14.9% | +13% |
| Franklin High School | Public | 2695 | 26.8% | +2% |
| Pleasant Grove High School | Public | 2581 | 21.9% | +5% |
| Elk Grove High School | Public | 1781 | 6.8% | -8% |
| Valley High School | Public | 1539 | 18.6% | +22% |
| Florin High School | Public | 1616 | 19.0% | +15% |
| River City High School | Public | 2099 | 19.6% | +7% |
| C K Mcclatchy High School | Public | 2617 | 27.5% | +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 | 3.87 | 5.2% | 11.6% | -6.5pp | Under |
| UCLA | 3.89 | 10.3% | 9.0% | +1.4pp | On target |
| UC San Diego | 3.86 | 26.2% | 23.3% | +2.9pp | On target |
| UC Santa Barbara | 3.85 | 31.9% | 27.3% | +4.7pp | On target |
| UC Irvine | 3.79 | 17.7% | 19.8% | -2.1pp | On target |
| UC Davis | 3.81 | 34.1% | 32.0% | +2.0pp | On target |
Where Laguna Creek High School sits vs. all California schools ⓘ
Overall, this school admits its UC applicants in line with what their GPAs predict (21.8% actual vs. 21.3% 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 | 58 | 3 | — | 5.2% | 0.5% | — | 3.87 | — |
| UCLA → Elite | 58 | 6 | 3 | 10.3% | 1.1% | 50.0% | 3.89 | 4.16 |
| UC San Diego → Selective | 61 | 16 | 5 | 26.2% | 2.9% | 31.2% | 3.86 | 4.18 |
| UC Santa Barbara → Selective | 47 | 15 | — | 31.9% | 2.7% | — | 3.85 | 4.21 |
| UC Irvine → Selective | 62 | 11 | — | 17.7% | 2.0% | — | 3.79 | 4.18 |
| UC Davis → | 91 | 31 | 16 | 34.1% | 5.6% | 51.6% | 3.81 | 4.11 |