Rosemead High School
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San Gabriel High School → Arroyo High School → Temple City High School → Gabrielino High School → Sierra Vista High School → Compare all similar →Enrollment trend & projection
If this trend holds (-1.4%/yr, Total enrollment)
At per-pupil funding of $ / student:
| Horizon | Projected Total enrollment | Change | Funding impact / yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 yr (2027) | ~1,625 | -23 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2029) | ~1,579 | -69 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2031) | ~1,535 | -113 | $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.
Rosemead High School outperformed Los Angeles County on enrollment (school +24.3% vs. county -8.2%) AND maintains 89.5% stability. Replicable model — worth documenting what's working.
186 of 1,766 students who enrolled at Rosemead High School this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (10.5% 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 8.6 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 — El Monte Union High (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: 25.8%
Federal: 10.3%
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 El Monte Union High 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).
-3.5 pp vs. peer median (22.9%) · Ranked #7 of 11 similar schools
18.5%
22.9%
53.3%
19.4%
Higher than 53% of California high schools (1105 ranked, ≥50 seniors)
Rosemead High School's UC Reach of 19.4% is above the California median (18.5%). The top 10% of CA schools achieve 53.3% or higher.
For context, the elite tier (top 1%) clears 102.7% — a gap of 83 pp from where this school sits.
Overall, Rosemead High School's UC Reach is higher than 53% of California high schools (1105 ranked).
Rosemead High School — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot
Public · Rosemead · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools
- ▸On UC Reach, Rosemead High School sits in the middle of its similar-school group (ranked #7 of 11): 19% vs. a peer median of 23%.
- ▸Its UC Reach has slipped 18 points since 2018 — worth watching.
- ▸Senior-class enrollment is up 24% (440→547 from 2018 to 2026), outpacing the peer-group median of -18%.
- ▸At its recent rate (-1.4%/yr), enrollment projects to ~1579 by 2029 — about 69 fewer students than today.
Enrollment projection
That's about 69 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rosemead High School | Public | 1648 | 19.4% | +24% |
| Peer-group median | 22.9% | -18% | ||
| San Gabriel High School | Public | 1726 | 33.1% | -16% |
| Arroyo High School | Public | 1610 | 22.5% | -29% |
| Temple City High School | Public | 1803 | 59.7% | -15% |
| Gabrielino High School | Public | 1368 | 31.5% | -24% |
| Sierra Vista High School | Public | 1551 | 23.2% | -10% |
| South Pasadena High School | Public | 1496 | 46.2% | +3% |
| Montebello High School | Public | 1770 | 15.0% | -26% |
| El Monte High School | Public | 1294 | 16.0% | -22% |
| Alhambra High School | Public | 2042 | 17.7% | -11% |
| Los Altos High School | Public | 1586 | 12.0% | -20% |
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 | 4.01 | 21.7% | 12.7% | +9.0pp | Over |
| UCLA | 3.90 | 12.9% | 9.0% | +4.0pp | On target |
| UC San Diego | 3.84 | 31.9% | 23.8% | +8.2pp | Over |
| UC Santa Barbara | 3.85 | 25.5% | 27.2% | -1.7pp | On target |
| UC Irvine | 3.82 | 13.2% | 20.5% | -7.3pp | Under |
| UC Davis | 3.90 | 47.5% | 32.3% | +15.2pp | Over |
Where Rosemead High School sits vs. all California schools ⓘ
Overall, this school admits its UC applicants in line with what their GPAs predict (23.0% actual vs. 20.0% 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 | 46 | 10 | 4 | 21.7% | 2.0% | 40.0% | 4.01 | 4.26 |
| UCLA → Elite | 85 | 11 | 4 | 12.9% | 2.2% | 36.4% | 3.90 | 4.24 |
| UC San Diego → Selective | 94 | 30 | 11 | 31.9% | 6.0% | 36.7% | 3.84 | 4.22 |
| UC Santa Barbara → Selective | 51 | 13 | — | 25.5% | 2.6% | — | 3.85 | 4.18 |
| UC Irvine → Selective | 106 | 14 | 4 | 13.2% | 2.8% | 28.6% | 3.82 | 4.19 |
| UC Davis → | 40 | 19 | 4 | 47.5% | 3.8% | 21.1% | 3.90 | 4.17 |