Liberty High
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Heritage High School → Freedom High School → Deer Valley High School → Pittsburg High School → Dougherty Valley High School → Compare all similar →Enrollment trend & projection
If this trend holds (+0.9%/yr, Total enrollment)
At per-pupil funding of $ / student:
| Horizon | Projected Total enrollment | Change | Funding impact / yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 yr (2027) | ~2,824 | +25 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2029) | ~2,876 | +77 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2031) | ~2,928 | +129 | $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 Contra Costa County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.
Liberty High outperformed Contra Costa County on enrollment (school +5.8% vs. county -3.2%) AND maintains 92.3% stability. Replicable model — worth documenting what's working.
226 of 2,951 students who enrolled at Liberty High this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (7.7% 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 5.5 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 — Liberty 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: 48.3%
Federal: 5.6%
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 Liberty 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).
-5.0 pp vs. peer median (14.8%) · Ranked #9 of 11 similar schools
18.5%
53.3%
9.8%
Higher than 18% of California high schools (1105 ranked, ≥50 seniors)
Liberty High's UC Reach of 9.8% is below the California median (18.5%). The top 10% of CA schools achieve 53.3% or higher.
But in Contra Costa County, where the local median is 25.6% and the top-10% bar is 58.5%, this score is mid-pack rather than exceptional — typical of its market rather than a standout.
Overall, Liberty High's UC Reach is higher than 18% of California high schools (1105 ranked).
Liberty High — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot
Public · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools
- ▸On UC Reach, Liberty High sits near the bottom of its similar-school group (ranked #9 of 11): 10% vs. a peer median of 15%.
- ▸Its UC Reach has risen 3 points since 2018.
- ▸Senior-class enrollment is up 6% (606→641 from 2018 to 2026), outpacing the peer-group median of +2%.
- ▸Enrollment has been growing (+0.9%/yr); projects to ~2876 by 2029.
Enrollment projection
Your school vs. its 10 most similar nearby schools
| School | Type | Size | UC Reach | Enroll. trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberty High | Public | 2799 | 9.8% | +6% |
| Peer-group median | 14.8% | +2% | ||
| Heritage High School | Public | 2629 | 14.2% | +3% |
| Freedom High School | Public | 2439 | 11.1% | -6% |
| Deer Valley High School | Public | 1777 | 5.3% | -23% |
| Pittsburg High School | Public | 3485 | 15.3% | +20% |
| Dougherty Valley High School | Public | 2872 | 63.1% | -8% |
| Mountain House High School | Public | 2560 | 61.6% | +136% |
| Clayton Valley Charter High | Public | 2368 | 25.6% | +24% |
| California High School | Public | 2796 | 46.5% | +14% |
| Lincoln High | Public | 2844 | 14.3% | +1% |
| Antioch High School | Public | 1581 | 4.8% | +0% |
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 | 3.84 | 9.7% | 11.7% | -2.0pp | On target |
| UCLA | 3.91 | 8.0% | 9.0% | -1.0pp | On target |
| UC San Diego | 3.85 | 10.6% | 23.6% | -13.0pp | Under |
| UC Santa Barbara | 3.84 | 36.5% | 27.1% | +9.5pp | Over |
| UC Irvine | 3.87 | 6.4% | 21.8% | -15.4pp | Under |
| UC Davis | 3.84 | 37.3% | 32.1% | +5.2pp | Over |
Where Liberty High sits vs. all California schools ⓘ
Overall, this school admits its UC applicants in line with what their GPAs predict (19.0% actual vs. 21.5% 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 | 62 | 6 | 4 | 9.7% | 0.9% | 66.7% | 3.84 | 4.02 |
| UCLA → Elite | 50 | 4 | 3 | 8.0% | 0.6% | 75.0% | 3.91 | — |
| UC San Diego → Selective | 66 | 7 | — | 10.6% | 1.0% | — | 3.85 | 4.20 |
| UC Santa Barbara → Selective | 52 | 19 | — | 36.5% | 2.8% | — | 3.84 | 4.17 |
| UC Irvine → Selective | 47 | 3 | — | 6.4% | 0.4% | — | 3.87 | — |
| UC Davis → | 75 | 28 | 9 | 37.3% | 4.1% | 32.1% | 3.84 | 4.15 |