Los Alamitos High School
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If this trend holds (-1.7%/yr, Total enrollment)
At per-pupil funding of $ / student:
| Horizon | Projected Total enrollment | Change | Funding impact / yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 yr (2027) | ~2,760 | -49 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2029) | ~2,664 | -145 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2031) | ~2,572 | -237 | $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 Orange County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.
Families who enroll at Los Alamitos High School stay (96.5% stability — elite). But enrollment is dropping 2.0× the county rate (school -14.2% vs. county -7.1%). The audit question isn't why students leave — it's why fewer families are choosing to enroll in the first place.
105 of 2,967 students who enrolled at Los Alamitos High School this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (3.5% 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.
Absenteeism is up 10.2 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 Alamitos 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: 50.3%
Federal: 8.6%
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 Los Alamitos 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).
+14.6 pp above peer median (18.2%) · Ranked #2 of 10 similar schools
18.5%
53.3%
32.8%
Higher than 76% of California high schools (1105 ranked, ≥50 seniors)
Los Alamitos High School's UC Reach of 32.8% 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%.
For context, the elite tier (top 1%) clears 102.7% — a gap of 70 pp from where this school sits.
Overall, Los Alamitos High School's UC Reach is higher than 76% of California high schools (1105 ranked).
Los Alamitos High School — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot
Public · Los Alamitos · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools
- ▸On UC Reach, Los Alamitos High School sits near the top of its similar-school group (ranked #2 of 10): 33% vs. a peer median of 18%.
- ▸Its UC Reach has risen 4 points since 2018.
- ▸Senior-class enrollment is down 14% (829→711 from 2018 to 2026), trailing the peer-group median of -10%.
- ▸At its recent rate (-1.7%/yr), enrollment projects to ~2664 by 2029 — about 145 fewer students than today.
Enrollment projection
That's about 145 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Los Alamitos High School | Public | 2809 | 32.8% | -14% |
| Peer-group median | 18.2% | -10% | ||
| Cypress High School | Public | 2548 | 30.5% | -2% |
| Millikan High School | Public | 3358 | 21.5% | -3% |
| Westminster High School | Public | 2436 | 21.1% | -11% |
| Wilson High School | Public | 3334 | — | -9% |
| Mayfair High School | Public | 2293 | 10.0% | +1% |
| Lakewood High School | Public | 2092 | 11.9% | -26% |
| Anaheim High School | Public | 2604 | 18.2% | -21% |
| John F Kennedy High School | Public | 1992 | 13.3% | -13% |
| Cerritos High School | Public | 1954 | 48.4% | -1% |
| Paramount High School | Public | 3370 | 11.8% | -27% |
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 | 4.08 | 16.5% | 14.1% | +2.4pp | On target |
| UCLA | 4.02 | 10.3% | 9.4% | +0.9pp | On target |
| UC San Diego | 3.98 | 25.0% | 20.3% | +4.7pp | On target |
| UC Santa Barbara | 3.98 | 30.8% | 31.5% | -0.7pp | On target |
| UC Irvine | 3.95 | 32.3% | 24.7% | +7.6pp | Over |
| UC Davis | 3.98 | 35.2% | 32.7% | +2.5pp | On target |
Where Los Alamitos High School sits vs. all California schools ⓘ
Overall, this school admits its UC applicants in line with what their GPAs predict (24.8% actual vs. 21.7% 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 | 139 | 23 | 9 | 16.5% | 3.0% | 39.1% | 4.08 | 4.29 |
| UCLA → Elite | 185 | 19 | 9 | 10.3% | 2.5% | 47.4% | 4.02 | 4.31 |
| UC San Diego → Selective | 188 | 47 | 13 | 25.0% | 6.2% | 27.7% | 3.98 | 4.28 |
| UC Santa Barbara → Selective | 172 | 53 | 8 | 30.8% | 7.0% | 15.1% | 3.98 | 4.30 |
| UC Irvine → Selective | 195 | 63 | 20 | 32.3% | 8.3% | 31.7% | 3.95 | 4.21 |
| UC Davis → | 122 | 43 | 4 | 35.2% | 5.7% | 9.3% | 3.98 | 4.22 |