Enrollment & Outcomes Scorecard
Mervyn M Dymally High School
Public · Los Angeles · Los Angeles County · 580 students · Class of 2025
UC Reach · Class of 2025
8%
Higher than 12% of California high schools
-19.9 pp vs. peer median (28.2%)
· Ranked #4 of 4 similar schools
5-year UC Reach
2020 · 2.1%
2025 · 8.3%
-2%
Senior-class enrollment (2018–2026)
+6.1 pp
vs. Los Angeles County baseline (-8%)
~538
5-yr projected enrollment (42 fewer than today)
- ▸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.
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|---|---|---|---|
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| Animo South Los Angeles Charter | Public | — | +4% |
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| Stella High Charter Academy | Public | 16.0% | +2% |
| Aspire Ollin University Preparatory Academy | Public | — | -44% |
UC Reach = top-6 UC admits ÷ senior class. Sources: UCOP Admissions by Source School, CDE enrollment, IRS Form 990, NCES F-33. Test Prep Gurus Intelligence by Test Prep Gurus · Methodology
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