Mount Miguel High School
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Monte Vista High → Morse High School → Lincoln High → Crawford High School → The O'farrell Charter → Compare all similar →Enrollment trend & projection
If this trend holds (+2.7%/yr, Total enrollment)
At per-pupil funding of $ / student:
| Horizon | Projected Total enrollment | Change | Funding impact / yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 yr (2027) | ~1,536 | +41 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2029) | ~1,621 | +126 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2031) | ~1,711 | +216 | $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 San Diego 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 San Diego County (+42.1% vs. -7.8%), but 282 of 1678 students didn't maintain continuous enrollment. Why are families leaving once enrolled? Chronic absenteeism is also at 31.4% (up +5.0 pts from 2016-17) — engagement and demand are both signaling decline.
282 of 1,678 students who enrolled at Mount Miguel High School this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (16.8% 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 5.0 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 — Grossmont Union High (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: 48.9%
Federal: 13.2%
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 Grossmont Union High 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).
-7.6 pp vs. peer median (18.9%) · Ranked #7 of 9 similar schools
18.5%
53.3%
11.3%
Higher than 24% of California high schools (1105 ranked, ≥50 seniors)
Mount Miguel High School's UC Reach of 11.3% is below the California median (18.5%). The top 10% of CA schools achieve 53.3% or higher.
Overall, Mount Miguel High School's UC Reach is higher than 24% of California high schools (1105 ranked).
Mount Miguel High School — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot
Public · Spring Valley · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools
- ▸On UC Reach, Mount Miguel High School sits near the bottom of its similar-school group (ranked #7 of 9): 11% vs. a peer median of 19%.
- ▸Its UC Reach has risen 3 points since 2018.
- ▸Senior-class enrollment is up 42% (280→398 from 2018 to 2026), outpacing the peer-group median of +5%.
- ▸Enrollment has been growing (+2.7%/yr); projects to ~1621 by 2029.
Enrollment projection
Your school vs. its 10 most similar nearby schools
| School | Type | Size | UC Reach | Enroll. trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Miguel High School | Public | 1495 | 11.3% | +42% |
| Peer-group median | 18.9% | +5% | ||
| Monte Vista High | Public | 1467 | 7.8% | +4% |
| Morse High School | Public | 1635 | 20.4% | -4% |
| Lincoln High | Public | 1444 | 12.4% | +6% |
| Crawford High School | Public | 1361 | 21.4% | +22% |
| The O'farrell Charter | Public | 1833 | — | +50% |
| El Cajon Valley High School | Public | 1657 | 7.5% | -9% |
| Valhalla High School | Public | 1692 | 17.5% | -18% |
| Mueller Charter (robert L.) | Public | 1558 | — | +64% |
| San Diego High School | Public | 1408 | 25.8% | +147% |
| Hilltop High School | Public | 1748 | 20.9% | -19% |
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 | 3.83 | 16.1% | 11.7% | +4.4pp | On target |
| UCLA | 3.86 | 11.6% | 8.9% | +2.7pp | On target |
| UC San Diego | 3.78 | 37.0% | 25.6% | +11.4pp | Over |
| UC Santa Barbara | 3.73 | 42.1% | 26.5% | +15.6pp | Over |
| UC Irvine | 3.83 | 6.4% | 20.7% | -14.3pp | Under |
| UC Davis | 3.67 | 30.0% | 32.2% | -2.2pp | On target |
Where Mount Miguel High School sits vs. all California schools ⓘ
Overall, this school admits its UC applicants in line with what their GPAs predict (22.0% actual vs. 19.9% 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 | 31 | 5 | — | 16.1% | 1.2% | — | 3.83 | 4.19 |
| UCLA → Elite | 43 | 5 | — | 11.6% | 1.2% | — | 3.86 | 4.17 |
| UC San Diego → Selective | 54 | 20 | 10 | 37.0% | 4.8% | 50.0% | 3.78 | 4.20 |
| UC Santa Barbara → Selective | 19 | 8 | — | 42.1% | 1.9% | — | 3.73 | 4.15 |
| UC Irvine → Selective | 47 | 3 | — | 6.4% | 0.7% | — | 3.83 | — |
| UC Davis → | 20 | 6 | — | 30.0% | 1.4% | — | 3.67 | 4.11 |