Pride Continuation

· San Joaquin County · Linden Unified
Public San Joaquin County 🏛 Linden Unified → CDS 3968577…
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Vista High (continuation) → Harvest High → Calaveras River Academy → Gold Strike High → Adelante High → Compare all similar →

No UC admissions data on file for Pride Continuation.

This school doesn't appear in UCOP's source-school records (it may send few or no applicants to UC). Its enrollment trend and similar-school comparison are still below.

Enrollment trend & projection

Total enrollment (9–12)
39 (2018)18 (2026)
-53.8%
Grade 12 (graduating class)
14 (2018)15 (2026)
+7.1%

If this trend holds (-9.2%/yr, Total enrollment)

At per-pupil funding of $ / student:

Horizon Projected Total enrollment Change Funding impact / yr
1 yr (2027) ~16 -2 $0
3 yr (2029) ~13 -5 $0
5 yr (2031) ~11 -7 $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 Joaquin County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.

Critical
Compounding decline on both vectors.

Enrollment +7.1% vs. county +21.8% AND stability (44.7%) below the county median. Recruitment and retention both under pressure — likely a foundational rather than tactical problem. Chronic absenteeism is also at 76.5% (up +30.1 pts from 2016-17) — engagement and demand are both signaling decline.

+7.1%  school enrollment (2018–2026)
+21.8%  San Joaquin County baseline
-14.7pp  gap vs. county
44.7%  retention (county median 85.8%)
Enrollment — indexed to 100 at 2018
Stability rate by year (raw %)
Stability rate
44.7%
17 of 38 students

21 of 38 students who enrolled at Pride Continuation this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (55.3% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.

San Joaquin County median
85.8% · school is in the 11th percentile of 44 HS
Statewide median
87.2% · in the 14th percentile of 1,688 HS

Stability by student group

Socio. disadvantaged (35) 45.7%
Hispanic / Latino (33) 42.4%

Nearest peer high schools

Vista High (continuation) 46.4% Harvest High 23.1% Calaveras River Academy 36.4% Gold Strike High 28.3% Adelante High 49.1%

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.

Chronic absent
76.5%
26 of 34 students

Absenteeism is up 30.1 pp since 2016-17. A rising absenteeism trend often precedes formal departure — worth investigating which subgroups are driving it.

San Joaquin County median
21.2% · school is worse than 93% of 44 HS
Statewide median
22.9%
Chronic absenteeism by year (raw %)

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, 2024

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.

ELA — met or exceeded
n = 19
5.3%
incl. 0.0% exceeded
-43.8 pts vs. San Joaquin County median (49.1%) · CA median 52.4% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 78.4%
Math — met or exceeded
n = 18
0.0%
incl. 0.0% exceeded
-14.9 pts vs. San Joaquin County median (14.9%) · CA median 18.5% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 52.1%

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

Hispanic / Latino 78% +1.3
White 22% +4.6

Program subgroups

Students w/ disabilities 72% -24.9

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 — Linden 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.

Total revenue
$33.8M
+20.4% since FY2017
Per-pupil revenue
$14,569
2,323 students enrolled
Revenue mix
State: 58.8%
Local: 28.6%
Federal: 12.6%
Instruction share
56.2%
of current spending · $7,486/pupil
Long-term debt
$8.4M
-52.3% since FY2017
Total revenue by year ($M)
Total expenditure by year ($M)

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 Linden 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).

Pride Continuation — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot

Public · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools

  • Senior-class enrollment is up 7% (14→15 from 2018 to 2026), outpacing the peer-group median of -17%.
  • At its recent rate (-9.2%/yr), enrollment projects to ~13 by 2029 — about 5 fewer students than today.

Enrollment projection

18 students (2026)
~13 projected (2029)
at -9.2%/yr

That's about 5 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
Pride Continuation Public 18 +7%
Peer-group median -17%
Vista High (continuation) Public 16 -25%
Harvest High Public 25 -50%
Calaveras River Academy Public 21 +67%
Gold Strike High Public 26 +7%
Adelante High Public 33 -41%
Liberty High Public 89 -36%
Oakdale Charter Public 62 -10%
New Vision High Public 86 -34%
Estrellita Continuation High Public 65 +117%
East Stanislaus High Public 72 +10%

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 →

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