Marysville Charter Academy For The Arts

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No UC admissions data on file for Marysville Charter Academy For The Arts.

This school doesn't appear in UCOP's source-school records (it may send few or no applicants to UC). Its enrollment trend and similar-school comparison are still below.

Enrollment trend & projection

Total enrollment (9–12)
380 (2018)378 (2026)
-0.5%
Grade 12 (graduating class)
43 (2018)54 (2026)
+25.6%

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) ~378 +0 $0
3 yr (2029) ~377 -1 $0
5 yr (2031) ~377 -1 $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 Yuba County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.

Action needed
Strong inside, weak at the gate.

Families who enroll at Marysville Charter Academy For The Arts stay (93.9% stability — elite). But enrollment is dropping faster than Yuba County (school +25.6% vs. county +30.2%). The audit question isn't why students leave — it's why fewer families are choosing to enroll in the first place.

+25.6%  school enrollment (2018–2026)
+30.2%  Yuba County baseline
-4.6pp  gap vs. county
93.9%  retention (county median 83.3%)
Enrollment — indexed to 100 at 2018
Stability rate by year (raw %)
Stability rate
93.9%
216 of 230 students

14 of 230 students who enrolled at Marysville Charter Academy For The Arts this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (6.1% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.

Yuba County median
83.3% · school is in the 100th percentile of 7 HS
Statewide median
87.2% · in the 85th percentile of 1,688 HS

Stability by student group

Socio. disadvantaged (217) 91.2%
Hispanic / Latino (138) 94.2%
White (126) 94.4%
Students w/ disabilities (26) 96.2%
Asian (25) 100.0%
Two or more races (24) 91.7%

Nearest peer high schools

South Lindhurst Continuation High 26.5% East Nicolaus High School 93.7% Yuba City Charter 80.0% Yuba County Career Preparatory Charter 58.3% Core Charter School 85.6%

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.

Chronic absent
8.8%
20 of 226 students

Absenteeism is up 6.6 pp since 2016-17. A rising absenteeism trend often precedes formal departure — worth investigating which subgroups are driving it.

Yuba County median
20.4% · school is better than 86% of 7 HS
Statewide median
22.9%
Chronic absenteeism by year (raw %)

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.

ELA — met or exceeded
n = 52
82.7%
incl. 42.3% exceeded
★ Top 10% CA
+40.2 pts above Yuba County median (42.5%) · CA median 54.3% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 79.3%
Math — met or exceeded
n = 52
48.1%
incl. 15.4% exceeded
+35.0 pts above Yuba County median (13.1%) · CA median 21.1% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 53.6%

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

Hispanic / Latino 36%
White 31% -2.7
Not reported 16% +1.7
Asian 7% +2.1
Two or more 5% -2.5
Filipino 2%
Black / African Am. 1%
Pacific Islander 1%

Program subgroups

Students w/ disabilities 51% +8.7

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 — Marysville Joint 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.

Total revenue
$168.1M
+22.9% since FY2017
Per-pupil revenue
$17,273
9,733 students enrolled
Revenue mix
State: 63.1%
Local: 21.8%
Federal: 15.1%
Instruction share
54.3%
of current spending · $7,371/pupil
Long-term debt
$108.2M
+12.6% since FY2017
Total revenue by year ($M)
Total expenditure by year ($M)

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 Marysville Joint 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).

Marysville Charter Academy For The Arts — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot

Public · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools

  • Senior-class enrollment is up 26% (43→54 from 2018 to 2026), outpacing the peer-group median of -8%.
  • At its recent rate (-0.1%/yr), enrollment projects to ~377 by 2029 — about 1 fewer students than today.

Enrollment projection

378 students (2026)
~377 projected (2029)
at -0.1%/yr

That's about 1 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
Marysville Charter Academy For The Arts Public 378 +26%
Peer-group median 5.2% -8%
South Lindhurst Continuation High Public 232 +51%
East Nicolaus High School Public 307 5.3% +4%
Yuba City Charter Public 246 -44%
Yuba County Career Preparatory Charter Public 217 -66%
Core Charter School Public 206 -12%
John Muir Charter Public 543 -90%
Horizon Charter School Public 639 4.9% -3%
Live Oak High School Public 598 32.9% +20%
Forest Charter School Public 284 5.0% -9%
Heritage Peak Charter School Public 344 -8%

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 →

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