Lynwood High School
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Marco Antonio Firebaugh Hs → Dominguez Senior High School → South GATE High School → Dominguez High → Compton High → Compare all similar →Enrollment trend & projection
If this trend holds (-3.3%/yr, Total enrollment)
At per-pupil funding of $ / student:
| Horizon | Projected Total enrollment | Change | Funding impact / yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 yr (2027) | ~1,620 | -54 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2029) | ~1,516 | -158 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2031) | ~1,419 | -255 | $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 Los Angeles County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.
Enrollment -18.7% vs. county -8.2% — losing 2.3× the county rate. Each enrolled family matters more, but the engine of new enrollment is breaking down. Chronic absenteeism is also at 32.2% (up +12.8 pts from 2016-17) — engagement and demand are both signaling decline.
246 of 1,994 students who enrolled at Lynwood 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
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 12.8 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 — Lynwood 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: 10.0%
Federal: 17.6%
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 Lynwood 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).
-3.0 pp vs. peer median (18.6%) · Ranked #7 of 10 similar schools
18.5%
53.3%
15.6%
Higher than 43% of California high schools (1105 ranked, ≥50 seniors)
Lynwood High School's UC Reach of 15.6% is below the California median (18.5%). The top 10% of CA schools achieve 53.3% or higher.
Overall, Lynwood High School's UC Reach is higher than 43% of California high schools (1105 ranked).
Lynwood High School — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot
Public · Lynwood · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools
- ▸On UC Reach, Lynwood High School sits in the middle of its similar-school group (ranked #7 of 10): 16% vs. a peer median of 19%.
- ▸Its UC Reach has held roughly steady since 2018.
- ▸Senior-class enrollment is down 19% (497→404 from 2018 to 2026), trailing the peer-group median of -1%.
- ▸At its recent rate (-3.3%/yr), enrollment projects to ~1516 by 2029 — about 158 fewer students than today.
Enrollment projection
That's about 158 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lynwood High School | Public | 1674 | 15.6% | -19% |
| Peer-group median | 18.6% | -1% | ||
| Marco Antonio Firebaugh Hs | Public | 1639 | 24.1% | -1% |
| Dominguez Senior High School | Public | 1616 | 31.8% | +0% |
| South GATE High School | Public | 1619 | 15.6% | -34% |
| Dominguez High | Public | 1502 | 18.6% | -1% |
| Compton High | Public | 1868 | 10.5% | +9% |
| South East High School | Public | 1894 | 22.4% | +0% |
| King/Drew Medical Magnet High | Public | 1350 | — | -12% |
| John C Fremont High School | Public | 1865 | 14.1% | +11% |
| Bell Gardens High | Public | 1912 | 16.3% | -31% |
| Bell High School | Public | 2022 | 22.9% | -37% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UCLA | 3.74 | 7.3% | 9.2% | -1.8pp | On target |
| UC San Diego | 3.68 | 39.6% | 28.9% | +10.7pp | Over |
| UC Santa Barbara | 3.64 | 35.0% | 28.2% | +6.8pp | Over |
| UC Irvine | 3.78 | 22.1% | 19.4% | +2.7pp | On target |
| UC Davis | 3.76 | 41.4% | 32.0% | +9.4pp | Over |
Where Lynwood High School sits vs. all California schools ⓘ
Overall, this school admits its UC applicants in line with what their GPAs predict (24.6% actual vs. 20.6% 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 | 29 | — | — | — | — | — | 3.80 | — |
| UCLA → Elite | 82 | 6 | 4 | 7.3% | 1.3% | 66.7% | 3.74 | 4.18 |
| UC San Diego → Selective | 48 | 19 | — | 39.6% | 4.2% | — | 3.68 | 4.08 |
| UC Santa Barbara → Selective | 40 | 14 | — | 35.0% | 3.1% | — | 3.64 | 4.09 |
| UC Irvine → Selective | 86 | 19 | 5 | 22.1% | 4.2% | 26.3% | 3.78 | 4.09 |
| UC Davis → | 29 | 12 | 4 | 41.4% | 2.7% | 33.3% | 3.76 | 4.11 |