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LA Costa Canyon High School → Canyon Crest Academy → Rancho Buena Vista High School → Mt Carmel High School → Westview High School → Compare all similar →Enrollment trend & projection
If this trend holds (-1.2%/yr, Total enrollment)
At per-pupil funding of $ / student:
| Horizon | Projected Total enrollment | Change | Funding impact / yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 yr (2027) | ~1,702 | -21 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2029) | ~1,660 | -63 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2031) | ~1,620 | -103 | $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 Diego County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.
San Dieguito Academy's enrollment is tracking San Diego County's baseline (-9.4% vs. -7.8%), and 96.5% stability is elite. The demographic tide is the headwind; you're holding your share.
66 of 1,863 students who enrolled at San Dieguito Academy this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (3.5% 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 5.1 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.
+21.2 pp above peer median (21.0%) · Ranked #4 of 11 similar schools
18.5%
53.3%
42.2%
Higher than 84% of California high schools (1105 ranked, ≥50 seniors)
San Dieguito Academy's UC Reach of 42.2% is in the top quartile statewide (median 18.5%; top 25% bar 32.0%) — but it's still below the top-10% bar of 53.3%.
For context, the elite tier (top 1%) clears 102.7% — a gap of 60 pp from where this school sits.
Overall, San Dieguito Academy's UC Reach is higher than 84% of California high schools (1105 ranked).
San Dieguito Academy — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot
Public · Encinitas · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools
- ▸On UC Reach, San Dieguito Academy sits in the middle of its similar-school group (ranked #4 of 11): 42% vs. a peer median of 21%.
- ▸Its UC Reach has slipped 8 points since 2018 — worth watching.
- ▸Senior-class enrollment is down 9% (477→432 from 2018 to 2026), trailing the peer-group median of -7%.
- ▸At its recent rate (-1.2%/yr), enrollment projects to ~1660 by 2029 — about 63 fewer students than today.
Enrollment projection
That's about 63 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| San Dieguito Academy | Public | 1723 | 42.2% | -9% |
| Peer-group median | 21.0% | -7% | ||
| LA Costa Canyon High School | Public | 1841 | 18.9% | +8% |
| Canyon Crest Academy | Public | 1977 | 92.7% | -5% |
| Rancho Buena Vista High School | Public | 1842 | 16.0% | -24% |
| Mt Carmel High School | Public | 1818 | 22.3% | +2% |
| Westview High School | Public | 2067 | 74.2% | -9% |
| Vista High School | Public | 1635 | 13.0% | -25% |
| San Pasqual High School | Public | 1852 | 19.6% | -26% |
| Oceanside High School | Public | 1903 | 13.0% | -22% |
| Sage Creek High School | Public | 1236 | 39.8% | -2% |
| Scripps Ranch High | Public | 1920 | 42.8% | -3% |
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 | 4.07 | 14.6% | 14.0% | +0.6pp | On target |
| UCLA | 4.06 | 11.6% | 9.6% | +2.1pp | On target |
| UC San Diego | 3.96 | 23.4% | 20.9% | +2.5pp | On target |
| UC Santa Barbara | 4.00 | 26.7% | 32.5% | -5.8pp | Under |
| UC Irvine | 3.93 | 14.4% | 24.0% | -9.6pp | Under |
| UC Davis | 4.02 | 35.5% | 33.0% | +2.5pp | On target |
Where San Dieguito Academy sits vs. all California schools ⓘ
Overall, this school admits its UC applicants in line with what their GPAs predict (21.4% actual vs. 22.5% 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 | 158 | 23 | 11 | 14.6% | 4.2% | 47.8% | 4.07 | 4.19 |
| UCLA → Elite | 189 | 22 | 15 | 11.6% | 4.0% | 68.2% | 4.06 | 4.21 |
| UC San Diego → Selective | 205 | 48 | 14 | 23.4% | 8.8% | 29.2% | 3.96 | 4.22 |
| UC Santa Barbara → Selective | 221 | 59 | 19 | 26.7% | 10.8% | 32.2% | 4.00 | 4.24 |
| UC Irvine → Selective | 139 | 20 | — | 14.4% | 3.7% | — | 3.93 | 4.15 |
| UC Davis → | 166 | 59 | 11 | 35.5% | 10.8% | 18.6% | 4.02 | 4.15 |