North Salinas High School
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Everett Alvarez High School → Salinas High School → Rancho San Juan High School → Alisal High School → Watsonville High School → Compare all similar →Enrollment trend & projection
If this trend holds (-1.0%/yr, Total enrollment)
At per-pupil funding of $ / student:
| Horizon | Projected Total enrollment | Change | Funding impact / yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 yr (2027) | ~2,026 | -20 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2029) | ~1,986 | -60 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2031) | ~1,946 | -100 | $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 Monterey County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.
North Salinas High School is recruiting families faster than Monterey County is shrinking (school +14.8% vs. county +9.8%), but 273 students didn't make it to year-end. The recruitment engine works; the mid-year exits are worth understanding.
273 of 2,243 students who enrolled at North Salinas High School this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (12.2% 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 — Salinas 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: 18.9%
Federal: 10.6%
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 Salinas 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).
-7.9 pp vs. peer median (19.5%) · Ranked #8 of 11 similar schools
18.5%
53.3%
11.6%
Higher than 25% of California high schools (1105 ranked, ≥50 seniors)
North Salinas High School's UC Reach of 11.6% is below the California median (18.5%). The top 10% of CA schools achieve 53.3% or higher.
Overall, North Salinas High School's UC Reach is higher than 25% of California high schools (1105 ranked).
North Salinas High School — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot
Public · Salinas · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools
- ▸On UC Reach, North Salinas High School sits in the middle of its similar-school group (ranked #8 of 11): 12% vs. a peer median of 20%.
- ▸Its UC Reach has held roughly steady since 2018.
- ▸Senior-class enrollment is up 15% (473→543 from 2018 to 2026), outpacing the peer-group median of +7%.
- ▸At its recent rate (-1.0%/yr), enrollment projects to ~1986 by 2029 — about 60 fewer students than today.
Enrollment projection
That's about 60 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Salinas High School | Public | 2046 | 11.6% | +15% |
| Peer-group median | 19.5% | +7% | ||
| Everett Alvarez High School | Public | 1826 | 18.9% | -11% |
| Salinas High School | Public | 2356 | 24.2% | -8% |
| Rancho San Juan High School | Public | 1559 | 29.0% | +31% |
| Alisal High School | Public | 2811 | 20.1% | +0% |
| Watsonville High School | Public | 2232 | 14.2% | +1% |
| North Monterey County High Sch | Public | 1169 | 21.8% | +14% |
| Monterey High School | Public | 1413 | 38.0% | +27% |
| Gilroy High School | Public | 1546 | 9.8% | +23% |
| Pajaro Valley Hs | Public | 1270 | 10.9% | -4% |
| Hollister High School | Public | 3330 | 10.7% | +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 | 3.82 | 15.7% | 11.7% | +4.0pp | On target |
| UCLA | 3.85 | 8.1% | 8.9% | -0.8pp | On target |
| UC San Diego | 3.72 | 31.0% | 27.4% | +3.7pp | On target |
| UC Santa Barbara | 3.75 | 31.6% | 26.4% | +5.2pp | Over |
| UC Irvine | 3.76 | 22.5% | 19.0% | +3.5pp | On target |
| UC Davis | 3.70 | 33.9% | 32.1% | +1.8pp | On target |
Where North Salinas High School sits vs. all California schools ⓘ
Overall, this school admits its UC applicants in line with what their GPAs predict (24.0% actual vs. 21.2% 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 | 51 | 8 | 4 | 15.7% | 1.5% | 50.0% | 3.82 | 4.25 |
| UCLA → Elite | 37 | 3 | — | 8.1% | 0.6% | — | 3.85 | — |
| UC San Diego → Selective | 29 | 9 | — | 31.0% | 1.7% | — | 3.72 | 4.14 |
| UC Santa Barbara → Selective | 38 | 12 | — | 31.6% | 2.3% | — | 3.75 | 4.21 |
| UC Irvine → Selective | 40 | 9 | — | 22.5% | 1.7% | — | 3.76 | 4.13 |
| UC Davis → | 59 | 20 | 5 | 33.9% | 3.8% | 25.0% | 3.70 | 4.14 |