Norwalk High School
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If this trend holds (-0.8%/yr, Total enrollment)
At per-pupil funding of $ / student:
| Horizon | Projected Total enrollment | Change | Funding impact / yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 yr (2027) | ~1,947 | -15 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2029) | ~1,918 | -44 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2031) | ~1,889 | -73 | $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 Los Angeles County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.
Norwalk High School's enrollment is tracking Los Angeles County's baseline (-6.5% vs. -8.2%), and 91.4% stability is elite. The demographic tide is the headwind; you're holding your share. Chronic absenteeism is rising (23.3%, +9.3 pts since 2016-17) — a watch signal worth monitoring as a leading indicator.
184 of 2,152 students who enrolled at Norwalk High School this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (8.6% 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 9.3 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 — Norwalk-La Mirada 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: 26.4%
Federal: 12.4%
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 Norwalk-La Mirada 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).
-3.7 pp vs. peer median (14.7%) · Ranked #9 of 10 similar schools
18.5%
53.3%
11.0%
Higher than 23% of California high schools (1105 ranked, ≥50 seniors)
Norwalk High School's UC Reach of 11.0% is below the California median (18.5%). The top 10% of CA schools achieve 53.3% or higher.
Overall, Norwalk High School's UC Reach is higher than 23% of California high schools (1105 ranked).
Norwalk High School — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot
Public · Norwalk · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools
- ▸On UC Reach, Norwalk High School sits near the bottom of its similar-school group (ranked #9 of 10): 11% vs. a peer median of 15%.
- ▸Its UC Reach has held roughly steady since 2018.
- ▸Senior-class enrollment is down 6% (489→457 from 2018 to 2026), outpacing the peer-group median of -15%.
- ▸At its recent rate (-0.8%/yr), enrollment projects to ~1918 by 2029 — about 44 fewer students than today.
Enrollment projection
That's about 44 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Norwalk High School | Public | 1962 | 11.0% | -6% |
| Peer-group median | 14.7% | -15% | ||
| Bellflower High School | Public | 1959 | 15.0% | -13% |
| Cerritos High School | Public | 1954 | 48.4% | -1% |
| Santa Fe High School | Public | 1756 | 14.7% | -24% |
| El Rancho High School | Public | 1947 | 19.8% | -16% |
| John F Kennedy High School | Public | 1992 | 13.3% | -13% |
| Gahr (richard) High | Public | 1648 | — | -26% |
| Bell Gardens High | Public | 1912 | 16.3% | -31% |
| Lakewood High School | Public | 2092 | 11.9% | -26% |
| Mayfair High School | Public | 2293 | 10.0% | +1% |
| California High | Public | 2263 | 12.5% | -8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UCLA | 3.81 | 4.1% | 9.0% | -4.9pp | On target |
| UC San Diego | 3.83 | 25.8% | 24.0% | +1.8pp | On target |
| UC Santa Barbara | 3.79 | 40.5% | 26.5% | +14.1pp | Over |
| UC Irvine | 3.83 | 20.2% | 20.7% | -0.5pp | On target |
| UC Davis | 3.78 | 13.6% | 32.0% | -18.4pp | Under |
Where Norwalk High School sits vs. all California schools ⓘ
Overall, this school admits its UC applicants in line with what their GPAs predict (19.4% actual vs. 20.0% 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 | 35 | — | — | — | — | — | 3.75 | — |
| UCLA → Elite | 74 | 3 | — | 4.1% | 0.6% | — | 3.81 | — |
| UC San Diego → Selective | 62 | 16 | — | 25.8% | 3.3% | — | 3.83 | 4.24 |
| UC Santa Barbara → Selective | 37 | 15 | — | 40.5% | 3.1% | — | 3.79 | 4.08 |
| UC Irvine → Selective | 84 | 17 | 10 | 20.2% | 3.5% | 58.8% | 3.83 | 4.13 |
| UC Davis → | 22 | 3 | — | 13.6% | 0.6% | — | 3.78 | — |