Mclane High School
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Herbert Hoover High School → Roosevelt High → Fresno High School → Crescent View West Public Charter → Clovis West High School → Compare all similar →Enrollment trend & projection
If this trend holds (+1.8%/yr, Total enrollment)
At per-pupil funding of $ / student:
| Horizon | Projected Total enrollment | Change | Funding impact / yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 yr (2027) | ~2,073 | +36 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2029) | ~2,146 | +109 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2031) | ~2,222 | +185 | $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 Fresno County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.
Enrollment growth is beating Fresno County (+40.5% vs. +6.7%), but 464 of 2296 students didn't maintain continuous enrollment. Why are families leaving once enrolled? Chronic absenteeism is also at 39.2% (up +11.9 pts from 2016-17) — engagement and demand are both signaling decline.
464 of 2,296 students who enrolled at Mclane High School this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (20.2% 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 11.9 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 — Fresno 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: 12.4%
Federal: 15.6%
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 Fresno 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).
On the peer median (13.2%) · Ranked #5 of 9 similar schools
18.5%
13.2%
53.3%
14.2%
Higher than 37% of California high schools (1105 ranked, ≥50 seniors)
Mclane High School's UC Reach of 14.2% is below the California median (18.5%). The top 10% of CA schools achieve 53.3% or higher.
In Fresno County, where the local median is just 11.8%, this score is unusually strong for its immediate market.
Overall, Mclane High School's UC Reach is higher than 37% of California high schools (1105 ranked).
Mclane High School — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot
Public · Fresno · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools
- ▸On UC Reach, Mclane High School sits in the middle of its similar-school group (ranked #5 of 9): 14% vs. a peer median of 13%.
- ▸Its UC Reach has risen 12 points since 2018.
- ▸Senior-class enrollment is up 40% (338→475 from 2018 to 2026), outpacing the peer-group median of -3%.
- ▸Enrollment has been growing (+1.8%/yr); projects to ~2146 by 2029.
Enrollment projection
Your school vs. its 10 most similar nearby schools
| School | Type | Size | UC Reach | Enroll. trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mclane High School | Public | 2037 | 14.2% | +40% |
| Peer-group median | 13.2% | -3% | ||
| Herbert Hoover High School | Public | 2035 | 5.1% | +24% |
| Roosevelt High | Public | 2154 | — | +1% |
| Fresno High School | Public | 1857 | 11.1% | -19% |
| Crescent View West Public Charter | Public | 1624 | — | -22% |
| Clovis West High School | Public | 2210 | 14.6% | +5% |
| Edison High School | Public | 2393 | 22.0% | +0% |
| Bullard High School | Public | 2498 | 11.8% | -10% |
| Central East High School | Public | 1729 | 7.5% | -53% |
| Sunnyside High School | Public | 2833 | 17.7% | +12% |
| Buchanan High | Public | 2578 | 19.4% | -7% |
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 | 3.64 | 9.7% | 14.4% | -4.7pp | On target |
| UC San Diego | 3.68 | 43.6% | 28.9% | +14.7pp | Over |
| UC Santa Barbara | 3.58 | 33.3% | 30.0% | +3.4pp | On target |
| UC Irvine | 3.67 | 20.8% | 17.2% | +3.6pp | On target |
| UC Davis | 3.68 | 31.0% | 32.2% | -1.2pp | On target |
Where Mclane High School sits vs. all California schools ⓘ
Overall, this school admits its UC applicants in line with what their GPAs predict (26.5% actual vs. 24.9% 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 | 62 | 6 | 4 | 9.7% | 1.4% | 66.7% | 3.64 | 4.16 |
| UCLA → Elite | 59 | — | — | — | — | — | 3.73 | — |
| UC San Diego → Selective | 39 | 17 | — | 43.6% | 4.0% | — | 3.68 | 4.11 |
| UC Santa Barbara → Selective | 30 | 10 | — | 33.3% | 2.4% | — | 3.58 | 4.05 |
| UC Irvine → Selective | 24 | 5 | — | 20.8% | 1.2% | — | 3.67 | 4.19 |
| UC Davis → | 71 | 22 | 6 | 31.0% | 5.2% | 27.3% | 3.68 | 4.14 |