Redwood High
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Golden West High School → El Diamante High School → Mt. Whitney High → Tulare Western High School → Tulare Union High School → 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) | ~2,620 | +42 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2029) | ~2,706 | +128 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2031) | ~2,794 | +216 | $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 Tulare County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.
Redwood High outperformed Tulare County on enrollment (school +18.2% vs. county +2.2%) AND maintains 89.6% stability. Replicable model — worth documenting what's working.
272 of 2,608 students who enrolled at Redwood High 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
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 5.0 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 — Visalia 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: 19.4%
Federal: 10.2%
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 Visalia 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).
+2.2 pp above peer median (13.0%) · Ranked #2 of 8 similar schools
18.5%
13.0%
53.3%
15.2%
Higher than 42% of California high schools (1105 ranked, ≥50 seniors)
Redwood High's UC Reach of 15.2% is below the California median (18.5%). The top 10% of CA schools achieve 53.3% or higher.
Overall, Redwood High's UC Reach is higher than 42% of California high schools (1105 ranked).
Redwood High — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot
Public · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools
- ▸On UC Reach, Redwood High sits near the top of its similar-school group (ranked #2 of 8): 15% vs. a peer median of 13%.
- ▸Its UC Reach has risen 5 points since 2018.
- ▸Senior-class enrollment is up 18% (495→585 from 2018 to 2026), outpacing the peer-group median of +13%.
- ▸Enrollment has been growing (+1.6%/yr); projects to ~2706 by 2029.
Enrollment projection
Your school vs. its 10 most similar nearby schools
| School | Type | Size | UC Reach | Enroll. trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Redwood High | Public | 2578 | 15.2% | +18% |
| Peer-group median | 13.0% | +13% | ||
| Golden West High School | Public | 2014 | 5.9% | +15% |
| El Diamante High School | Public | 1822 | 13.6% | -8% |
| Mt. Whitney High | Public | 1627 | — | +9% |
| Tulare Western High School | Public | 1870 | 14.7% | -19% |
| Tulare Union High School | Public | 1626 | 13.0% | +4% |
| Dinuba High School | Public | 2076 | 11.3% | +16% |
| Mission Oak High School | Public | 1789 | 9.9% | +20% |
| Summit Charter Academy | Public | 2494 | — | +127% |
| Crescent Valley Public Charter Ii | Public | 843 | — | +231% |
| Reedley High School | Public | 1825 | 16.8% | +11% |
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 | 4.00 | 20.5% | 12.6% | +7.9pp | Over |
| UCLA | 3.90 | 8.1% | 9.0% | -0.9pp | On target |
| UC San Diego | 3.92 | 14.3% | 21.8% | -7.5pp | Under |
| UC Santa Barbara | 3.94 | 35.6% | 30.0% | +5.6pp | Over |
| UC Irvine | 3.93 | 34.0% | 23.9% | +10.1pp | Over |
| UC Davis | 3.87 | 39.3% | 32.2% | +7.2pp | Over |
Where Redwood High sits vs. all California schools ⓘ
Overall, this school admits its UC applicants in line with what their GPAs predict (25.2% actual vs. 21.5% 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 | 44 | 9 | — | 20.5% | 1.7% | — | 4.00 | 4.18 |
| UCLA → Elite | 62 | 5 | 5 | 8.1% | 1.0% | 100.0% | 3.90 | 4.17 |
| UC San Diego → Selective | 49 | 7 | — | 14.3% | 1.3% | — | 3.92 | 4.19 |
| UC Santa Barbara → Selective | 45 | 16 | 4 | 35.6% | 3.1% | 25.0% | 3.94 | 4.21 |
| UC Irvine → Selective | 53 | 18 | 3 | 34.0% | 3.5% | 16.7% | 3.93 | 4.17 |
| UC Davis → | 61 | 24 | 6 | 39.3% | 4.6% | 25.0% | 3.87 | 4.16 |