Oceanside High School
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Coastal Academy Charter → El Camino High School → Carlsbad High School → Rancho Buena Vista High School → Mission Vista High School → Compare all similar →Enrollment trend & projection
If this trend holds (-1.7%/yr, Total enrollment)
At per-pupil funding of $ / student:
| Horizon | Projected Total enrollment | Change | Funding impact / yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 yr (2027) | ~1,870 | -33 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2029) | ~1,806 | -97 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2031) | ~1,744 | -159 | $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 -21.6% vs. county -7.8% AND stability (85.1%) below the county median. Recruitment and retention both under pressure — likely a foundational rather than tactical problem. Chronic absenteeism is also at 36.0% (up +8.6 pts from 2016-17) — engagement and demand are both signaling decline.
308 of 2,067 students who enrolled at Oceanside High School this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (14.9% 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 8.6 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 — Oceanside 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: 37.5%
Federal: 15.2%
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 Oceanside 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).
-5.9 pp vs. peer median (18.9%) · Ranked #6 of 8 similar schools
18.5%
53.3%
13.0%
Higher than 32% of California high schools (1105 ranked, ≥50 seniors)
Oceanside High School's UC Reach of 13.0% is below the California median (18.5%). The top 10% of CA schools achieve 53.3% or higher.
Overall, Oceanside High School's UC Reach is higher than 32% of California high schools (1105 ranked).
Oceanside High School — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot
Public · Oceanside · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools
- ▸On UC Reach, Oceanside High School sits near the bottom of its similar-school group (ranked #6 of 8): 13% vs. a peer median of 19%.
- ▸Its UC Reach has risen 2 points since 2018.
- ▸Senior-class enrollment is down 22% (513→402 from 2018 to 2026), trailing the peer-group median of -7%.
- ▸At its recent rate (-1.7%/yr), enrollment projects to ~1806 by 2029 — about 97 fewer students than today.
Enrollment projection
That's about 97 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oceanside High School | Public | 1903 | 13.0% | -22% |
| Peer-group median | 18.9% | -7% | ||
| Coastal Academy Charter | Public | 2120 | — | +497% |
| El Camino High School | Public | 2309 | 10.4% | -20% |
| Carlsbad High School | Public | 2360 | 26.4% | +2% |
| Rancho Buena Vista High School | Public | 1842 | 16.0% | -24% |
| Mission Vista High School | Public | 1673 | 27.9% | -2% |
| Vista High School | Public | 1635 | 13.0% | -25% |
| LA Costa Canyon High School | Public | 1841 | 18.9% | +8% |
| Fallbrook High | Public | 1858 | — | -5% |
| San Dieguito Academy | Public | 1723 | 42.2% | -9% |
| Guajome Park Academy Charter | Public | 1326 | — | -13% |
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 | 4.02 | 11.1% | 13.0% | -1.9pp | On target |
| UCLA | 3.98 | 9.4% | 9.2% | +0.2pp | On target |
| UC San Diego | 3.85 | 29.4% | 23.5% | +5.9pp | Over |
| UC Santa Barbara | 3.85 | 35.7% | 27.2% | +8.5pp | Over |
| UC Irvine | 3.87 | 13.7% | 21.9% | -8.2pp | Under |
| UC Davis | 3.92 | 27.6% | 32.3% | -4.8pp | On target |
Where Oceanside High School sits vs. all California schools ⓘ
Overall, this school admits its UC applicants in line with what their GPAs predict (21.1% actual vs. 20.6% 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 | 36 | 4 | — | 11.1% | 0.9% | — | 4.02 | — |
| UCLA → Elite | 53 | 5 | 5 | 9.4% | 1.1% | 100.0% | 3.98 | 4.33 |
| UC San Diego → Selective | 68 | 20 | — | 29.4% | 4.4% | — | 3.85 | 4.25 |
| UC Santa Barbara → Selective | 42 | 15 | 5 | 35.7% | 3.3% | 33.3% | 3.85 | 4.20 |
| UC Irvine → Selective | 51 | 7 | 3 | 13.7% | 1.5% | 42.9% | 3.87 | 4.16 |
| UC Davis → | 29 | 8 | — | 27.6% | 1.8% | — | 3.92 | 4.21 |