Piedmont High School
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Oakland School for the Arts → Castlemont High School → Lodestar: A Lighthouse Community Charter Public → Oakland Military Institute, College Preparatory Academy → Madison Park Academy 6-12 → Compare all similar →Enrollment trend & projection
If this trend holds (-1.6%/yr, Total enrollment)
At per-pupil funding of $ / student:
| Horizon | Projected Total enrollment | Change | Funding impact / yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 yr (2027) | ~701 | -12 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2029) | ~679 | -34 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2031) | ~657 | -56 | $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 Alameda County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.
Families who enroll at Piedmont High School stay (97.3% stability — elite). But enrollment is dropping 8.0× the county rate (school -4.8% vs. county +0.6%). The audit question isn't why students leave — it's why fewer families are choosing to enroll in the first place.
20 of 740 students who enrolled at Piedmont High School this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (2.7% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.
Stability by student group
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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 — Piedmont City 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: 72.0%
Federal: 3.6%
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 Piedmont City 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).
+36.6 pp above peer median (17.1%) · Ranked #1 of 7 similar schools
18.5%
53.3%
53.7%
Higher than 90% of California high schools (1105 ranked, ≥50 seniors)
Piedmont High School's UC Reach of 53.7% clears the statewide top-10% cutoff (53.3%) — meaning roughly 53 top-6 UC admits per 100 seniors, well above what most California schools achieve.
For context, the elite tier (top 1%) clears 102.7% — a gap of 49 pp from where this school sits.
Overall, Piedmont High School's UC Reach is higher than 90% of California high schools (1105 ranked).
Piedmont High School — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot
Public · Piedmont · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools
- ▸On UC Reach, Piedmont High School sits near the top of its similar-school group (ranked #1 of 7): 54% vs. a peer median of 17%.
- ▸Its UC Reach has risen 5 points since 2018.
- ▸Across the top-6 UC campuses, Piedmont High School is admitting at roughly -6 percentage points below what its average applicant GPA (4.003) alone would predict (16% actual vs. 22% expected). That's worth understanding — it can reflect grade inflation that UC sees through, weaker holistic-review materials at the margin, or applicants concentrating at more selective campuses than typical. Not a verdict; a signal.
- ▸Senior-class enrollment is down 5% (188→179 from 2018 to 2026), trailing the peer-group median of +10%.
- ▸At its recent rate (-1.6%/yr), enrollment projects to ~679 by 2029 — about 34 fewer students than today.
Enrollment projection
That's about 34 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Piedmont High School | Public | 713 | 53.7% | -5% |
| Peer-group median | 17.1% | +10% | ||
| Oakland School for the Arts | Public | 815 | 26.8% | +9% |
| Castlemont High School | Public | 694 | 5.8% | +12% |
| Lodestar: A Lighthouse Community Charter Public | Public | 756 | — | +15% |
| Oakland Military Institute, College Preparatory Academy | Public | 501 | — | -52% |
| Madison Park Academy 6-12 | Public | 620 | — | +20% |
| Coliseum College Prep Academy | Public | 929 | 46.5% | +75% |
| Five Keys Charter (sf Sheriff's) | Public | 753 | — | +65% |
| John F. Kennedy High | Public | 625 | 7.4% | -34% |
| Life Academy High School | Public | 434 | 27.4% | -5% |
| Summit Public School K2 | Public | 539 | 5.1% | -5% |
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 | 4.04 | 14.7% | 13.4% | +1.3pp | On target |
| UCLA | 4.03 | 6.6% | 9.4% | -2.8pp | On target |
| UC San Diego | 3.99 | 14.0% | 20.1% | -6.1pp | Under |
| UC Santa Barbara | 3.98 | 21.4% | 31.7% | -10.4pp | Under |
| UC Irvine | 3.98 | 16.3% | 25.7% | -9.4pp | Under |
| UC Davis | 3.98 | 25.7% | 32.7% | -7.0pp | Under |
Where Piedmont High School sits vs. all California schools ⓘ
Overall, this school admits its UC applicants 5.6 points below what their GPAs predict (16.3% actual vs. 22.0% 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 | 116 | 17 | 10 | 14.7% | 8.3% | 58.8% | 4.04 | 4.20 |
| UCLA → Elite | 121 | 8 | 3 | 6.6% | 3.9% | 37.5% | 4.03 | 4.27 |
| UC San Diego → Selective | 114 | 16 | — | 14.0% | 7.8% | — | 3.99 | 4.25 |
| UC Santa Barbara → Selective | 131 | 28 | 6 | 21.4% | 13.7% | 21.4% | 3.98 | 4.25 |
| UC Irvine → Selective | 86 | 14 | 4 | 16.3% | 6.8% | 28.6% | 3.98 | 4.13 |
| UC Davis → | 105 | 27 | — | 25.7% | 13.2% | — | 3.98 | 4.20 |