Lompoc High School
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Cabrillo High School → Ernest Righetti High School → Orcutt Academy Charter High School → Santa Maria High School → Pioneer Valley High School → Compare all similar →Enrollment trend & projection
If this trend holds (+0.1%/yr, Total enrollment)
At per-pupil funding of $ / student:
| Horizon | Projected Total enrollment | Change | Funding impact / yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 yr (2027) | ~1,522 | +2 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2029) | ~1,527 | +7 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2031) | ~1,531 | +11 | $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 Barbara County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.
Lompoc High School is recruiting families faster than Santa Barbara County is shrinking (school +12.9% vs. county +3.2%), but 208 students didn't make it to year-end. The recruitment engine works; the mid-year exits are worth understanding. Chronic absenteeism is rising (22.9%, +8.1 pts since 2016-17) — a watch signal worth monitoring as a leading indicator.
208 of 1,690 students who enrolled at Lompoc High School this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (12.3% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.
Stability by student group
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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 8.1 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 — Lompoc 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: 23.8%
Federal: 13.2%
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 Lompoc 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).
-5.6 pp vs. peer median (17.1%) · Ranked #10 of 11 similar schools
18.5%
53.3%
11.5%
Higher than 25% of California high schools (1105 ranked, ≥50 seniors)
Lompoc High School's UC Reach of 11.5% is below the California median (18.5%). The top 10% of CA schools achieve 53.3% or higher.
Overall, Lompoc High School's UC Reach is higher than 25% of California high schools (1105 ranked).
Lompoc High School — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot
Public · Lompoc · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools
- ▸On UC Reach, Lompoc High School sits near the bottom of its similar-school group (ranked #10 of 11): 12% vs. a peer median of 17%.
- ▸Its UC Reach has held roughly steady since 2018.
- ▸Senior-class enrollment is up 13% (294→332 from 2018 to 2026), outpacing the peer-group median of +7%.
- ▸Enrollment has been growing (+0.1%/yr); projects to ~1527 by 2029.
Enrollment projection
Your school vs. its 10 most similar nearby schools
| School | Type | Size | UC Reach | Enroll. trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lompoc High School | Public | 1520 | 11.5% | +13% |
| Peer-group median | 17.1% | +7% | ||
| Cabrillo High School | Public | 1064 | 12.3% | -14% |
| Ernest Righetti High School | Public | 2472 | 13.7% | +24% |
| Orcutt Academy Charter High School | Public | 796 | 32.5% | +22% |
| Santa Maria High School | Public | 3094 | 15.0% | +21% |
| Pioneer Valley High School | Public | 3011 | 15.0% | +16% |
| Santa Ynez Valley Union Hs | Public | 729 | 19.5% | -15% |
| Buena High School | Public | 1487 | 7.5% | -20% |
| Arroyo Grande High School | Public | 1939 | 19.2% | -9% |
| Santa Paula High School | Public | 1456 | 19.8% | +2% |
| San Luis Obispo High School | Public | 1693 | 35.6% | +12% |
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 | 4.02 | 20.8% | 12.9% | +8.0pp | Over |
| UCLA | 3.85 | 8.1% | 8.9% | -0.8pp | On target |
| UC San Diego | 3.78 | 25.0% | 25.6% | -0.6pp | On target |
| UC Santa Barbara | 3.79 | 34.9% | 26.5% | +8.4pp | Over |
| UC Irvine | 3.89 | 26.1% | 22.7% | +3.4pp | On target |
| UC Davis | 3.91 | 41.7% | 32.3% | +9.3pp | Over |
Where Lompoc High School sits vs. all California schools ⓘ
Overall, this school admits its UC applicants in line with what their GPAs predict (25.7% 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 | 24 | 5 | — | 20.8% | 1.2% | — | 4.02 | 4.23 |
| UCLA → Elite | 37 | 3 | — | 8.1% | 0.7% | — | 3.85 | — |
| UC San Diego → Selective | 32 | 8 | — | 25.0% | 2.0% | — | 3.78 | 4.23 |
| UC Santa Barbara → Selective | 43 | 15 | 6 | 34.9% | 3.7% | 40.0% | 3.79 | 4.19 |
| UC Irvine → Selective | 23 | 6 | — | 26.1% | 1.5% | — | 3.89 | 4.26 |
| UC Davis → | 24 | 10 | — | 41.7% | 2.4% | — | 3.91 | 4.19 |