Sacramento Waldorf School

Fair Oaks · Sacramento County · Private
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Enrollment trend & projection

Total enrollment (9–12)
406 (2020)451 (2024)
+11.1%
Grade 12 (graduating class)
35 (2020)37 (2024)
+5.7%

If this trend holds (+2.7%/yr, Total enrollment)

At tuition of $ / student:

Horizon Projected Total enrollment Change Tuition impact / yr
1 yr (2025) ~463 +12 $0
3 yr (2027) ~488 +37 $0
5 yr (2029) ~514 +63 $0

Straight-line extrapolation of the recent annual rate — a what-if, not a forecast of intent. Edit the figure to match your school.

Financial profile — IRS Form 990, FY2023

From 13 years of Form 990 filings via ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer (free public IRS data). The school's tax filings show financial scale, fundraising health, and endowment trajectory — signals that drive board-level conversations about tuition pricing, financial-aid capacity, and capital projects.

Total revenue
$8.6M
FY2023
Net assets (endowment + property)
$3.0M
+3.6% since FY2011
Tuition revenue (program)
$7.9M
≈ $17491/student avg
Gifts & grants
$0.3M
fundraising
Total revenue by year ($M)
Net assets by year ($M)

Source: IRS Form 990 via ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer (EIN 941477071). View latest 990 PDF → Tuition-per-student is total program-service revenue divided by latest enrollment — a rough average that includes auxiliary revenue (athletics, food service, etc.); the actual published tuition can differ. Form 990 is filed annually under penalty of perjury, so the financial scale figures are authoritative.

University of California outcomes · Class of 2025
UC Reach
N/A
(class size est.)
5-year trend
2020 · 8.6% 2024 · 21.6%
UC Application Reach
N/A
73 applications
UC Admit Rate
20.5%
15 / 73 applications
In context: CA median 26.0% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 40.5% · higher than 19% of CA HS.
UC Yield Rate
N/A
None enrolled of 15 admitted
Yield vs. Enrollment Reach: Yield answers "of UC admits, what % chose UC?" — denominator is just the admits. A small admitted cohort can post a low yield even when the school sends a healthy share of its class to UC.
UC Enrollment Reach
N/A
None enrollees / None seniors
Enrollment Reach vs. Yield: Reach answers "of the whole senior class, what % ended up at UC?" — denominator is everyone. High Yield with low Enrollment Reach is common at elite privates: most admits matriculate, but the school sends most of its class to non-UC selective colleges.
Selective UC Reach (UCSD, UCSB, UCI, UCD)
N/A
Elite UC Reach (UCB + UCLA)
N/A
Senior Class Size
N/A
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Total School Enrollment
N/A
All grades · Private School Affidavit

Private-school figures come from the California Private School Affidavit. Per CDE, inclusion in private-school data is not an evaluation, approval, or endorsement of a school.

Sacramento Waldorf School — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot

Private · secular · Fair Oaks · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools

  • On UC Reach, Sacramento Waldorf School sits near the bottom of its similar-school group (ranked #10 of 11): 22% vs. a peer median of 52%.
  • Its UC Reach has risen 13 points since 2020.
  • Senior-class enrollment is up 6% (35→37 from 2020 to 2024), trailing the peer-group median of +8%.
  • Enrollment has been growing (+2.7%/yr); projects to ~488 by 2027.

Enrollment projection

451 students (2024)
~488 projected (2027)
at +2.7%/yr

Your school vs. its 10 most similar nearby schools

School Type Size UC Reach Enroll. trend
Sacramento Waldorf School Private · secular 451 21.6% +6%
Peer-group median 52.0% +8%
Sacramento Country Day School Private · secular 565 93.3% +45%
Sacramento Adventist Academy Private · Other religious 388 9.3% +23%
Marin Academy Private · secular 454 42.5% +3%
Jesuit High School Private · Catholic 917 37.2% -23%
Urban School of San Francisco Private · secular 420 37.4% -15%
San Francisco University Hs Private · secular 488 60.4% +2%
Bay School of San Francisco Private · secular 410 52.9% +28%
Branson School Private · secular 395 51.2% +9%
San Domenico School Private · secular 391 63.8% +18%
Athenian School Private · secular 528 52.7% +7%

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, and religious orientation. Methodology →

Avg. Applicant GPA · top-6 UCs
3.95

GPA figures reflect 2024 — UC has not yet released applicant/admit GPA for 2025.

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? Based on 2024 (latest GPA available).

Campus Applicant GPA (avg) Actual admit rate CA peer avg Δ Verdict
UC San Diego 3.94 28.6% 22.2% +6.3pp Over
UC Davis 3.99 50.0% 31.2% +18.8pp Over
"Applicant GPA" is the average GPA of this school's UC applicant pool — not an individual student GPA. "CA peer avg" is the application-weighted statewide admit rate at this school-pool GPA, fit separately per campus. At any given pool GPA, real admit rates span widely (UCSD ranges 8% → 65% across CA schools) because UCs use comprehensive review — context-of-opportunity, geography, demographics, and applicant essays all weigh in beyond GPA. A large negative residual flags this school is admitted at a meaningfully lower rate than other CA schools at the same pool GPA — not that students here were "rejected at expected rate X." "Over" / "Under" use a ±5-point band. Campuses with fewer than 5 applicants are omitted.

UC Outcomes Trend — 2018–2025

UC Admit Rate %
UC Reach % (where available)
UC Admits (count, right axis)

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) '24 Avg GPA (Adm) '24
UC Berkeley → Elite 13 3.98
UCLA → Elite 10 3.90
UC San Diego → Selective 15 9 60.0% 3.94
UC Santa Barbara → Selective 15 3.95
UC Irvine → Selective 9 3.98
UC Davis → 11 6 54.5% 3.99
⚠ Campus-level totals may count one student admitted to multiple UC campuses more than once. Admit Volume metrics are not the same as UC Reach, which requires unique-student counts. See methodology →

What This Means

Note: admit counts used here are campus-level totals. A student admitted to both UCLA and UCSD is counted twice. When UCOP unique-student data becomes available it will be loaded automatically and the labels will update.
Senior class size is estimated from CDE grade 12 enrollment data. Reach percentages should be interpreted as approximate.
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