Mervyn M Dymally High School
📄 Shareable scorecard →Enrollment trend & projection
If this trend holds (-2.4%/yr, Total enrollment)
At per-pupil funding of $ / student:
| Horizon | Projected Total enrollment | Change | Funding impact / yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 yr (2027) | ~566 | -14 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2029) | ~538 | -42 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2031) | ~512 | -68 | $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 growth is beating Los Angeles County (-2.1% vs. -8.2%), but 151 of 730 students didn't maintain continuous enrollment. Why are families leaving once enrolled? Chronic absenteeism is also at 47.9% (up +17.8 pts from 2016-17) — engagement and demand are both signaling decline.
151 of 730 students who enrolled at Mervyn M Dymally High School this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (20.7% 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 17.8 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 — Los Angeles 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: 29.8%
Federal: 18.5%
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 Los Angeles 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).
-19.9 pp vs. peer median (28.2%) · Ranked #4 of 4 similar schools
18.5%
28.2%
53.3%
8.3%
Higher than 13% of California high schools (1105 ranked, ≥50 seniors)
Mervyn M Dymally High School's UC Reach of 8.3% is below the California median (18.5%). The top 10% of CA schools achieve 53.3% or higher.
Against similar schools, Mervyn M Dymally High School trails the peer-group median (28.2%) — even though it looks strong vs. the state average.
Overall, Mervyn M Dymally High School's UC Reach is higher than 13% of California high schools (1105 ranked).
Mervyn M Dymally High School — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot
Public · Los Angeles · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools
- ▸On UC Reach, Mervyn M Dymally High School sits near the bottom of its similar-school group (ranked #4 of 4): 8% vs. a peer median of 28%.
- ▸Its UC Reach has risen 4 points since 2018.
- ▸Senior-class enrollment is down 2% (144→141 from 2018 to 2026), trailing the peer-group median of +3%.
- ▸In business terms, this is market-share growth during a market contraction. Los Angeles County's senior population shrank 8% over the same window — Mervyn M Dymally High School only shrank 2%. So Mervyn M Dymally High School picked up about 6 percentage points of relative share — families chose it over the alternatives even as the overall pool got smaller. That's overperforming the market in a shrinking market.
- ▸At its recent rate (-2.4%/yr), enrollment projects to ~538 by 2029 — about 42 fewer students than today.
Enrollment projection
That's about 42 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mervyn M Dymally High School | Public | 580 | 8.3% | -2% |
| Peer-group median | 28.2% | +3% | ||
| Alliance Judy Ivie Burton Technology Academy High | Public | 616 | — | +3% |
| Alliance Margaret M. Bloomfield Technology Academy High | Public | 590 | — | +20% |
| Animo South Los Angeles Charter | Public | 575 | — | +4% |
| Synergy Quantum Academy | Public | 567 | 39.3% | +44% |
| Stella High Charter Academy | Public | 567 | 16.0% | +2% |
| Aspire Ollin University Preparatory Academy | Public | 588 | — | -44% |
| Alliance Patti And Peter Neuwirth Leadership Academy | Public | 595 | — | -6% |
| Animo Watts College Preparatory Academy | Public | 550 | — | -4% |
| Linda Esperanza Marquez High B Libra Academy | Public | 614 | — | +6% |
| Nava College Prep Academy | Public | 585 | 28.2% | -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 San Diego | 3.56 | 26.3% | 33.0% | -6.7pp | Under |
| UC Santa Barbara | 3.57 | 44.4% | 30.5% | +14.0pp | Over |
| UC Irvine | 3.73 | 23.8% | 18.3% | +5.5pp | Over |
Where Mervyn M Dymally High School sits vs. all California schools ⓘ
Overall, this school admits its UC applicants in line with what their GPAs predict (28.6% actual vs. 26.2% 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 | 13 | — | — | — | — | — | 3.72 | — |
| UCLA → Elite | 28 | — | — | — | — | — | 3.67 | — |
| UC San Diego → Selective | 19 | 5 | — | 26.3% | 3.0% | — | 3.56 | 4.13 |
| UC Santa Barbara → Selective | 9 | 4 | — | 44.4% | 2.4% | — | 3.57 | — |
| UC Irvine → Selective | 21 | 5 | 3 | 23.8% | 3.0% | 60.0% | 3.73 | 4.07 |
| UC Davis → | 6 | — | — | — | — | — | 3.76 | — |