Rio Linda Preparatory Academy

· Sacramento County · Twin Rivers Unified
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No UC admissions data on file for Rio Linda Preparatory Academy.

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
490 (2018)349 (2026)
-28.8%

If this trend holds (-4.2%/yr, Total enrollment)

At per-pupil funding of $ / student:

Horizon Projected Total enrollment Change Funding impact / yr
1 yr (2027) ~335 -14 $0
3 yr (2029) ~307 -42 $0
5 yr (2031) ~282 -67 $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 Sacramento County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.

Stability rate
81.0%
299 of 369 students

70 of 369 students who enrolled at Rio Linda Preparatory Academy this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (19.0% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.

Sacramento County median
81.7% · school is in the 47th percentile of 100 HS
Statewide median
88.7% · in the 24th percentile of 2,648 HS

Stability by student group

Socio. disadvantaged (336) 80.7%
Hispanic / Latino (168) 83.3%
White (90) 80.0%
English learners (78) 88.5%
Students w/ disabilities (54) 83.3%
Asian (41) 97.6%

Nearest peer high schools

Heritage Peak Charter School 90.9% Futures High School 79.4% Rio Tierra Junior High 78.3% Westside Preparatory Charter 89.2% Martin Luther King Jr. Technology Academy 74.0%

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: total enrollment.

Chronic absent
31.9%
113 of 354 students

Absenteeism is up 14.8 pp since 2016-17. A rising absenteeism trend often precedes formal departure — worth investigating which subgroups are driving it.

Sacramento County median
25.8% · school is worse than 65% of 99 HS
Statewide median
20.9%
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).

District financial profile — Twin Rivers 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
$536.8M
+15.0% since FY2017
Per-pupil revenue
$21,914
24,497 students enrolled
Revenue mix
State: 61.8%
Local: 18.8%
Federal: 19.4%
Instruction share
56.3%
of current spending · $9,076/pupil
Long-term debt
$362.4M
0.0% since FY2017
Total revenue by year ($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 Twin Rivers 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).

Rio Linda Preparatory Academy — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot

Public · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools

  • At its recent rate (-4.2%/yr), enrollment projects to ~307 by 2029 — about 42 fewer students than today.

Enrollment projection

349 students (2026)
~307 projected (2029)
at -4.2%/yr

That's about 42 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
Rio Linda Preparatory Academy Public 349
Peer-group median 7.2% -6%
Heritage Peak Charter School Public 344 -8%
Futures High School Public 394 4.3% -13%
Rio Tierra Junior High Public 315
Westside Preparatory Charter Public 484
Martin Luther King Jr. Technology Academy Public 434
Norwood Junior High Public 488
Marconi Learning Academy Public 438 +222%
Higher Learning Academy Public 501
Umoja International Academy Public 376 10.0% -4%
Aspire Alexander Twilight College Preparatory Academy Public 441

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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