Los Amigos High School
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Saddleback High School → Century High School → Santiago High → Rancho Alamitos High School → Bolsa Grande High School → Compare all similar →Enrollment trend & projection
If this trend holds (-3.8%/yr, Total enrollment)
At per-pupil funding of $ / student:
| Horizon | Projected Total enrollment | Change | Funding impact / yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 yr (2027) | ~1,276 | -51 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2029) | ~1,181 | -146 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2031) | ~1,092 | -235 | $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.
Enrollment -20.7% vs. county -7.1% AND stability (89.8%) below the county median. Recruitment and retention both under pressure — likely a foundational rather than tactical problem.
152 of 1,497 students who enrolled at Los Amigos High School this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (10.2% 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 8.9 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 — Garden 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: 28.7%
Federal: 13.1%
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 Garden 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).
+2.4 pp above peer median (14.7%) · Ranked #4 of 11 similar schools
18.5%
53.3%
17.1%
Higher than 46% of California high schools (1105 ranked, ≥50 seniors)
Los Amigos High School's UC Reach of 17.1% is below the California median (18.5%). The top 10% of CA schools achieve 53.3% or higher.
But in Orange County, where the local median is 25.0% and the top-10% bar is 71.2%, this score is mid-pack rather than exceptional — typical of its market rather than a standout.
For context, the elite tier (top 1%) clears 102.7% — a gap of 86 pp from where this school sits.
Overall, Los Amigos High School's UC Reach is higher than 46% of California high schools (1105 ranked).
Los Amigos High School — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot
Public · Fountain Valley · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools
- ▸On UC Reach, Los Amigos High School sits in the middle of its similar-school group (ranked #4 of 11): 17% vs. a peer median of 15%.
- ▸Its UC Reach has risen 6 points since 2018.
- ▸Senior-class enrollment is down 21% (463→367 from 2018 to 2026), trailing the peer-group median of -16%.
- ▸At its recent rate (-3.8%/yr), enrollment projects to ~1181 by 2029 — about 146 fewer students than today.
Enrollment projection
That's about 146 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 Amigos High School | Public | 1327 | 17.1% | -21% |
| Peer-group median | 14.7% | -16% | ||
| Saddleback High School | Public | 1407 | 15.1% | -3% |
| Century High School | Public | 1356 | 8.2% | +18% |
| Santiago High | Public | 1557 | 20.6% | -16% |
| Rancho Alamitos High School | Public | 1380 | 20.4% | -17% |
| Bolsa Grande High School | Public | 1606 | 27.1% | -16% |
| Valley High | Public | 1737 | 14.8% | +4% |
| Costa Mesa High School | Public | 1610 | 14.5% | -8% |
| Loara High School | Public | 1511 | 13.5% | -20% |
| Savanna High School | Public | 1408 | 10.8% | -23% |
| Ocean View High School | Public | 1042 | 12.4% | -26% |
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 | 19.4% | 11.6% | +7.8pp | Over |
| UCLA | 3.82 | 8.8% | 9.0% | -0.2pp | On target |
| UC San Diego | 3.80 | 41.8% | 25.0% | +16.9pp | Over |
| UC Santa Barbara | 3.48 | 46.7% | 35.7% | +11.0pp | Over |
| UC Irvine | 3.76 | 19.7% | 18.9% | +0.8pp | On target |
| UC Davis | 3.66 | 25.9% | 32.3% | -6.3pp | Under |
Where Los Amigos High School sits vs. all California schools ⓘ
Overall, this school admits its UC applicants in line with what their GPAs predict (24.1% actual vs. 19.4% 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 | 36 | 7 | — | 19.4% | 1.9% | — | 3.87 | 4.12 |
| UCLA → Elite | 57 | 5 | 3 | 8.8% | 1.3% | 60.0% | 3.82 | 4.13 |
| UC San Diego → Selective | 55 | 23 | 8 | 41.8% | 6.1% | 34.8% | 3.80 | 4.09 |
| UC Santa Barbara → Selective | 15 | 7 | — | 46.7% | 1.9% | — | 3.48 | 3.82 |
| UC Irvine → Selective | 76 | 15 | 6 | 19.7% | 4.0% | 40.0% | 3.76 | 4.12 |
| UC Davis → | 27 | 7 | — | 25.9% | 1.9% | — | 3.66 | 3.90 |