Port of Los Angeles Hs
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Nathaniel Narbonne Senior High → Carson High School → Centennial High → Gardena High School → Cabrillo High → Compare all similar →Enrollment trend & projection
If this trend holds (-0.7%/yr, Total enrollment)
At per-pupil funding of $ / student:
| Horizon | Projected Total enrollment | Change | Funding impact / yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 yr (2027) | ~916 | -7 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2029) | ~902 | -21 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2031) | ~889 | -34 | $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.
Port of Los Angeles Hs outperformed Los Angeles County on enrollment (school +0.5% vs. county -8.2%) AND maintains 89.6% stability. Replicable model — worth documenting what's working.
101 of 973 students who enrolled at Port of Los Angeles Hs this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (10.4% 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 — Los Angeles 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: 29.8%
Federal: 18.5%
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 Los Angeles 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).
-7.7 pp vs. peer median (20.9%) · Ranked #8 of 8 similar schools
18.5%
53.3%
13.2%
Higher than 33% of California high schools (1105 ranked, ≥50 seniors)
Port of Los Angeles Hs's UC Reach of 13.2% is below the California median (18.5%). The top 10% of CA schools achieve 53.3% or higher.
Overall, Port of Los Angeles Hs's UC Reach is higher than 33% of California high schools (1105 ranked).
Port of Los Angeles Hs — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot
Public · San Pedro · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools
- ▸On UC Reach, Port of Los Angeles Hs sits near the bottom of its similar-school group (ranked #8 of 8): 13% vs. a peer median of 21%.
- ▸Its UC Reach has slipped 3 points since 2018 — worth watching.
- ▸Senior-class enrollment is up 0% (219→220 from 2018 to 2026), outpacing the peer-group median of -6%.
- ▸At its recent rate (-0.7%/yr), enrollment projects to ~902 by 2029 — about 21 fewer students than today.
Enrollment projection
That's about 21 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Port of Los Angeles Hs | Public | 923 | 13.2% | +0% |
| Peer-group median | 20.9% | -6% | ||
| Nathaniel Narbonne Senior High | Public | 1328 | 23.1% | -30% |
| Carson High School | Public | 1412 | 20.9% | -10% |
| Centennial High | Public | 809 | 20.3% | -3% |
| Gardena High School | Public | 1270 | 13.6% | +5% |
| Cabrillo High | Public | 1489 | — | -35% |
| California Academy Of Mathematics And Science | Public | 662 | — | -4% |
| Lifeline Education Charter Sch | Public | 720 | 21.3% | +33% |
| Rancho Dominguez Prep School | Public | 594 | 18.8% | -8% |
| Lawndale High School | Public | 1207 | 29.4% | -29% |
| Dr. Richard A. Vladovic Harbor Teacher Preparation Academy | Public | 461 | — | +24% |
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 | 9.1% | 9.0% | +0.1pp | On target |
| UC San Diego | 3.77 | 18.4% | 25.8% | -7.4pp | Under |
| UC Santa Barbara | 3.65 | 18.8% | 27.8% | -9.0pp | Under |
| UC Irvine | 3.76 | 12.5% | 19.0% | -6.5pp | Under |
| UC Davis | 3.60 | 46.2% | 32.6% | +13.6pp | Over |
Where Port of Los Angeles Hs sits vs. all California schools ⓘ
Overall, this school admits its UC applicants in line with what their GPAs predict (16.6% 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 | 27 | — | — | — | — | — | 3.82 | — |
| UCLA → Elite | 44 | 4 | 4 | 9.1% | 1.8% | 100.0% | 3.81 | — |
| UC San Diego → Selective | 38 | 7 | 3 | 18.4% | 3.2% | 42.9% | 3.77 | 4.06 |
| UC Santa Barbara → Selective | 32 | 6 | — | 18.8% | 2.7% | — | 3.65 | 4.03 |
| UC Irvine → Selective | 48 | 6 | — | 12.5% | 2.7% | — | 3.76 | 3.95 |
| UC Davis → | 13 | 6 | — | 46.2% | 2.7% | — | 3.60 | 3.85 |