Montgomery High
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Roseland Charter → Santa Rosa High School → Maria Carrillo High School → Elsie Allen High School → Piner High School → Compare all similar →Enrollment trend & projection
If this trend holds (-3.7%/yr, Total enrollment)
At per-pupil funding of $ / student:
| Horizon | Projected Total enrollment | Change | Funding impact / yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 yr (2027) | ~1,175 | -45 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2029) | ~1,090 | -130 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2031) | ~1,011 | -209 | $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 Sonoma County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.
Enrollment -20.2% vs. county -0.1% AND stability (87.9%) below the county median. Recruitment and retention both under pressure — likely a foundational rather than tactical problem.
160 of 1,324 students who enrolled at Montgomery High this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (12.1% 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 down 22.8 pp since 2016-17. Engagement improving — a positive trajectory worth understanding and reinforcing.
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.
On the peer median (11.8%) · Ranked #5 of 10 similar schools
18.5%
11.8%
53.3%
12.3%
Higher than 29% of California high schools (1105 ranked, ≥50 seniors)
Montgomery High's UC Reach of 12.3% is below the California median (18.5%). The top 10% of CA schools achieve 53.3% or higher.
Overall, Montgomery High's UC Reach is higher than 29% of California high schools (1105 ranked).
Montgomery High — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot
Public · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools
- ▸On UC Reach, Montgomery High sits in the middle of its similar-school group (ranked #5 of 10): 12% vs. a peer median of 12%.
- ▸Its UC Reach has risen 7 points since 2018.
- ▸Senior-class enrollment is down 20% (367→293 from 2018 to 2026), trailing the peer-group median of +5%.
- ▸At its recent rate (-3.7%/yr), enrollment projects to ~1090 by 2029 — about 130 fewer students than today.
Enrollment projection
That's about 130 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Montgomery High | Public | 1220 | 12.3% | -20% |
| Peer-group median | 11.8% | +5% | ||
| Roseland Charter | Public | 1181 | — | +14% |
| Santa Rosa High School | Public | 1443 | 8.1% | -22% |
| Maria Carrillo High School | Public | 1582 | 28.5% | +6% |
| Elsie Allen High School | Public | 930 | 5.2% | -15% |
| Piner High School | Public | 1538 | 7.8% | +14% |
| Analy High School | Public | 1427 | 11.8% | +26% |
| Rancho Cotate High School | Public | 1679 | 7.8% | +13% |
| Petaluma High School | Public | 1173 | 21.6% | -14% |
| Windsor High School | Public | 1753 | 18.3% | +4% |
| Sonoma Valley High School | Public | 1055 | 24.2% | -22% |
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 | 3.79 | 17.2% | 12.0% | +5.3pp | Over |
| UCLA | 3.90 | 8.8% | 9.0% | -0.2pp | On target |
| UC San Diego | 3.89 | 24.2% | 22.5% | +1.8pp | On target |
| UC Santa Barbara | 3.87 | 34.4% | 27.7% | +6.7pp | Over |
| UC Davis | 3.86 | 36.4% | 32.1% | +4.2pp | On target |
Where Montgomery High sits vs. all California schools ⓘ
Overall, this school admits its UC applicants in line with what their GPAs predict (24.2% actual vs. 20.7% 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 | 29 | 5 | 3 | 17.2% | 1.6% | 60.0% | 3.79 | 4.32 |
| UCLA → Elite | 34 | 3 | — | 8.8% | 0.9% | — | 3.90 | — |
| UC San Diego → Selective | 33 | 8 | — | 24.2% | 2.5% | — | 3.89 | 4.29 |
| UC Santa Barbara → Selective | 32 | 11 | 5 | 34.4% | 3.5% | 45.5% | 3.87 | 4.28 |
| UC Irvine → Selective | 21 | — | — | — | — | — | 3.85 | — |
| UC Davis → | 33 | 12 | — | 36.4% | 3.8% | — | 3.86 | 4.17 |