Mountain House High School
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Merrill F West High School → John C Kimball High School → Tracy High School → Heritage High School → Liberty High → Compare all similar →Enrollment trend & projection
If this trend holds (+9.8%/yr, Total enrollment)
At per-pupil funding of $ / student:
| Horizon | Projected Total enrollment | Change | Funding impact / yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 yr (2027) | ~2,812 | +252 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2029) | ~3,393 | +833 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2031) | ~4,094 | +1534 | $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 Joaquin County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.
Mountain House High School outperformed San Joaquin County on enrollment (school +135.6% vs. county +21.8%) AND maintains 95.0% stability. Replicable model — worth documenting what's working.
125 of 2,501 students who enrolled at Mountain House High School this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (5.0% 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.
Low and stable absenteeism — students are engaged and showing up. The leading indicator is healthy.
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 — Lammersville Joint 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: 48.2%
Federal: 3.1%
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 Lammersville Joint 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).
+45.4 pp above peer median (16.2%) · Ranked #1 of 11 similar schools
18.5%
53.3%
61.6%
Higher than 94% of California high schools (1105 ranked, ≥50 seniors)
Mountain House High School's UC Reach of 61.6% clears the statewide top-10% cutoff (53.3%) — meaning roughly 61 top-6 UC admits per 100 seniors, well above what most California schools achieve.
In San Joaquin County, where the local median is just 12.5%, this score is unusually strong for its immediate market.
For context, the elite tier (top 1%) clears 102.7% — a gap of 41 pp from where this school sits.
Overall, Mountain House High School's UC Reach is higher than 94% of California high schools (1105 ranked).
Mountain House High School — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot
Public · Mountain House · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools
- ▸On UC Reach, Mountain House High School sits near the top of its similar-school group (ranked #1 of 11): 62% vs. a peer median of 16%.
- ▸Its UC Reach has risen 49 points since 2018.
- ▸Senior-class enrollment is up 136% (261→615 from 2018 to 2026), outpacing the peer-group median of -2%.
- ▸Enrollment has been growing (+9.8%/yr); projects to ~3393 by 2029.
Enrollment projection
Your school vs. its 10 most similar nearby schools
| School | Type | Size | UC Reach | Enroll. trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mountain House High School | Public | 2560 | 61.6% | +136% |
| Peer-group median | 16.2% | -2% | ||
| Merrill F West High School | Public | 1845 | 16.6% | -12% |
| John C Kimball High School | Public | 1601 | 28.7% | +10% |
| Tracy High School | Public | 1745 | 15.9% | -22% |
| Heritage High School | Public | 2629 | 14.2% | +3% |
| Liberty High | Public | 2799 | 9.8% | +6% |
| Granada High School | Public | 2144 | 26.6% | +17% |
| Amador Valley High School | Public | 2556 | 53.7% | -3% |
| Freedom High School | Public | 2439 | 11.1% | -6% |
| Livermore High School | Public | 1802 | 20.3% | -7% |
| Edison Senior High School | Public | 2309 | 8.3% | -2% |
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 | 3.87 | 11.5% | 11.6% | -0.2pp | On target |
| UCLA | 3.90 | 6.6% | 9.0% | -2.4pp | On target |
| UC San Diego | 3.86 | 20.7% | 23.3% | -2.6pp | On target |
| UC Santa Barbara | 3.86 | 22.7% | 27.6% | -4.9pp | On target |
| UC Irvine | 3.86 | 38.0% | 21.5% | +16.6pp | Over |
| UC Davis | 3.83 | 39.4% | 32.1% | +7.4pp | Over |
Where Mountain House High School sits vs. all California schools ⓘ
Overall, this school admits its UC applicants in line with what their GPAs predict (23.5% actual vs. 20.9% 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 | 262 | 30 | 22 | 11.5% | 5.2% | 73.3% | 3.87 | 4.15 |
| UCLA → Elite | 242 | 16 | 8 | 6.6% | 2.8% | 50.0% | 3.90 | 4.22 |
| UC San Diego → Selective | 256 | 53 | 19 | 20.7% | 9.1% | 35.8% | 3.86 | 4.16 |
| UC Santa Barbara → Selective | 225 | 51 | 4 | 22.7% | 8.8% | 7.8% | 3.86 | 4.18 |
| UC Irvine → Selective | 255 | 97 | 39 | 38.0% | 16.7% | 40.2% | 3.86 | 4.11 |
| UC Davis → | 279 | 110 | 29 | 39.4% | 19.0% | 26.4% | 3.83 | 4.08 |