Perris High School
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Orange Vista High School → Rancho Verde High School → Vista Del Lago High School → Moreno Valley High School → Heritage High → Compare all similar →Enrollment trend & projection
If this trend holds (-1.9%/yr, Total enrollment)
At per-pupil funding of $ / student:
| Horizon | Projected Total enrollment | Change | Funding impact / yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 yr (2027) | ~1,948 | -37 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2029) | ~1,876 | -109 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2031) | ~1,807 | -178 | $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 Riverside County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.
Enrollment -16.6% vs. county -2.7% AND stability (77.0%) below the county median. Recruitment and retention both under pressure — likely a foundational rather than tactical problem. Chronic absenteeism is also at 35.3% (up +16.4 pts from 2016-17) — engagement and demand are both signaling decline.
548 of 2,385 students who enrolled at Perris High School this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (23.0% 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.
Absenteeism is up 16.4 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 — Perris 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: 26.4%
Federal: 9.8%
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 Perris 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).
-3.5 pp vs. peer median (13.8%) · Ranked #8 of 11 similar schools
18.5%
13.8%
53.3%
10.3%
Higher than 20% of California high schools (1105 ranked, ≥50 seniors)
Perris High School's UC Reach of 10.3% is below the California median (18.5%). The top 10% of CA schools achieve 53.3% or higher.
Overall, Perris High School's UC Reach is higher than 20% of California high schools (1105 ranked).
Perris High School — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot
Public · Perris · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools
- ▸On UC Reach, Perris High School sits in the middle of its similar-school group (ranked #8 of 11): 10% vs. a peer median of 14%.
- ▸Its UC Reach has slipped 4 points since 2018 — worth watching.
- ▸Senior-class enrollment is down 17% (554→462 from 2018 to 2026), trailing the peer-group median of -7%.
- ▸At its recent rate (-1.9%/yr), enrollment projects to ~1876 by 2029 — about 109 fewer students than today.
Enrollment projection
That's about 109 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Perris High School | Public | 1985 | 10.3% | -17% |
| Peer-group median | 13.8% | -7% | ||
| Orange Vista High School | Public | 2332 | 20.3% | +25% |
| Rancho Verde High School | Public | 2091 | 22.5% | -37% |
| Vista Del Lago High School | Public | 1891 | 6.6% | +10% |
| Moreno Valley High School | Public | 2088 | 13.7% | -2% |
| Heritage High | Public | 2396 | 14.0% | -16% |
| Santa Rosa Academy | Public | 1708 | 2.5% | -9% |
| Temescal Canyon High School | Public | 2298 | 13.3% | -5% |
| Elsinore High School | Public | 1938 | 10.1% | -4% |
| Citrus Hill High School | Public | 1500 | 22.2% | -37% |
| Canyon Springs High School | Public | 2213 | 16.6% | -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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UC Berkeley | 3.84 | 42.9% | 11.7% | +31.2pp | Over |
| UCLA | 3.67 | 10.6% | 9.5% | +1.1pp | On target |
| UC San Diego | 3.54 | 30.8% | 33.8% | -3.0pp | On target |
| UC Santa Barbara | 3.38 | 35.0% | 43.2% | -8.2pp | Under |
| UC Irvine | 3.47 | 19.4% | 15.5% | +3.9pp | On target |
| UC Davis | 3.76 | 45.0% | 32.0% | +13.0pp | Over |
Where Perris High School sits vs. all California schools ⓘ
Overall, this school admits its UC applicants in line with what their GPAs predict (25.0% actual vs. 22.8% 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 | 7 | 3 | — | 42.9% | 0.6% | — | 3.84 | — |
| UCLA → Elite | 47 | 5 | — | 10.6% | 1.0% | — | 3.67 | 4.19 |
| UC San Diego → Selective | 52 | 16 | 3 | 30.8% | 3.2% | 18.8% | 3.54 | 4.09 |
| UC Santa Barbara → Selective | 20 | 7 | — | 35.0% | 1.4% | — | 3.38 | 3.88 |
| UC Irvine → Selective | 62 | 12 | — | 19.4% | 2.4% | — | 3.47 | 4.09 |
| UC Davis → | 20 | 9 | — | 45.0% | 1.8% | — | 3.76 | 4.13 |