Mar Vista High School
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Chula Vista Learning Community Charter → Castle Park High School → Southwest Senior High → Montgomery High School → Mueller Charter (robert L.) → Compare all similar →Enrollment trend & projection
If this trend holds (-0.8%/yr, Total enrollment)
At per-pupil funding of $ / student:
| Horizon | Projected Total enrollment | Change | Funding impact / yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 yr (2027) | ~1,181 | -9 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2029) | ~1,163 | -27 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2031) | ~1,145 | -45 | $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 San Diego County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.
Enrollment -20.8% vs. county -7.8% AND stability (82.9%) below the county median. Recruitment and retention both under pressure — likely a foundational rather than tactical problem.
230 of 1,342 students who enrolled at Mar Vista High School this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (17.1% 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 in the typical CA HS range. Worth monitoring alongside the demand and retention signals above.
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 — Sweetwater 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: 32.0%
Federal: 9.1%
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 Sweetwater 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).
-5.4 pp vs. peer median (19.9%) · Ranked #8 of 9 similar schools
18.5%
53.3%
14.5%
Higher than 39% of California high schools (1105 ranked, ≥50 seniors)
Mar Vista High School's UC Reach of 14.5% is below the California median (18.5%). The top 10% of CA schools achieve 53.3% or higher.
Overall, Mar Vista High School's UC Reach is higher than 39% of California high schools (1105 ranked).
Mar Vista High School — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot
Public · Imperial Beach · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools
- ▸On UC Reach, Mar Vista High School sits near the bottom of its similar-school group (ranked #8 of 9): 14% vs. a peer median of 20%.
- ▸Its UC Reach has held roughly steady since 2018.
- ▸Senior-class enrollment is down 21% (322→255 from 2018 to 2026), trailing the peer-group median of -8%.
- ▸At its recent rate (-0.8%/yr), enrollment projects to ~1163 by 2029 — about 27 fewer students than today.
Enrollment projection
That's about 27 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar Vista High School | Public | 1190 | 14.5% | -21% |
| Peer-group median | 19.9% | -8% | ||
| Chula Vista Learning Community Charter | Public | 1357 | — | +40% |
| Castle Park High School | Public | 1318 | 17.1% | -2% |
| Southwest Senior High | Public | 1567 | 20.5% | -27% |
| Montgomery High School | Public | 1546 | 21.7% | -19% |
| Mueller Charter (robert L.) | Public | 1558 | — | +64% |
| Gompers Preparatory Academy | Public | 1154 | 47.4% | +26% |
| Coronado High School | Public | 990 | 29.3% | -14% |
| Lincoln High | Public | 1444 | 12.4% | +6% |
| Chula Vista Senior High School | Public | 1806 | 15.0% | -19% |
| Chula Vista Senior High | Public | 1806 | 19.4% | -34% |
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 | 3.89 | 13.6% | 11.7% | +2.0pp | On target |
| UC San Diego | 3.78 | 31.5% | 25.6% | +5.9pp | Over |
| UC Santa Barbara | 3.76 | 33.3% | 26.4% | +6.9pp | Over |
| UC Irvine | 3.75 | 18.2% | 18.8% | -0.7pp | On target |
| UC Davis | 3.76 | 30.4% | 32.0% | -1.6pp | On target |
Where Mar Vista High School sits vs. all California schools ⓘ
Overall, this school admits its UC applicants in line with what their GPAs predict (26.4% actual vs. 23.3% 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 | 22 | 3 | — | 13.6% | 1.0% | — | 3.89 | — |
| UCLA → Elite | 33 | — | — | — | — | — | 3.90 | — |
| UC San Diego → Selective | 54 | 17 | 7 | 31.5% | 5.9% | 41.2% | 3.78 | 4.15 |
| UC Santa Barbara → Selective | 27 | 9 | — | 33.3% | 3.1% | — | 3.76 | 4.18 |
| UC Irvine → Selective | 33 | 6 | — | 18.2% | 2.1% | — | 3.75 | 4.10 |
| UC Davis → | 23 | 7 | — | 30.4% | 2.4% | — | 3.76 | 4.16 |