San Dimas High School
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If this trend holds (-1.1%/yr, Total enrollment)
At per-pupil funding of $ / student:
| Horizon | Projected Total enrollment | Change | Funding impact / yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 yr (2027) | ~1,242 | -14 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2029) | ~1,214 | -42 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2031) | ~1,187 | -69 | $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.
Families who enroll at San Dimas High School stay (91.0% stability — elite). But enrollment is dropping faster than Los Angeles County (school -10.5% vs. county -8.2%). The audit question isn't why students leave — it's why fewer families are choosing to enroll in the first place.
117 of 1,295 students who enrolled at San Dimas High School this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (9.0% 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 10.7 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 — Bonita 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: 34.0%
Federal: 9.5%
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 Bonita 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).
-1.6 pp vs. peer median (15.6%) · Ranked #8 of 11 similar schools
18.5%
53.3%
14.0%
Higher than 37% of California high schools (1105 ranked, ≥50 seniors)
San Dimas High School's UC Reach of 14.0% is below the California median (18.5%). The top 10% of CA schools achieve 53.3% or higher.
Overall, San Dimas High School's UC Reach is higher than 37% of California high schools (1105 ranked).
San Dimas High School — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot
Public · San Dimas · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools
- ▸On UC Reach, San Dimas High School sits in the middle of its similar-school group (ranked #8 of 11): 14% vs. a peer median of 16%.
- ▸Its UC Reach has risen 3 points since 2018.
- ▸Senior-class enrollment is down 10% (344→308 from 2018 to 2026), outpacing the peer-group median of -13%.
- ▸At its recent rate (-1.1%/yr), enrollment projects to ~1214 by 2029 — about 42 fewer students than today.
Enrollment projection
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| San Dimas High School | Public | 1256 | 14.0% | -10% |
| Peer-group median | 15.6% | -13% | ||
| Charter Oak High School | Public | 1241 | 15.3% | -18% |
| Northview High School | Public | 1236 | 15.6% | -7% |
| Garey High School | Public | 1423 | 12.5% | -22% |
| Baldwin Park High School | Public | 1344 | 9.7% | -17% |
| Azusa High School | Public | 1535 | 17.5% | +34% |
| Covina High School | Public | 1001 | 21.8% | -13% |
| South Hills High School | Public | 1625 | 18.8% | -1% |
| Diamond Ranch High School | Public | 1518 | 19.1% | -3% |
| Don Antonio Lugo High School | Public | 1158 | 9.9% | -24% |
| Nogales High School | Public | 1468 | 15.5% | -13% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UCLA | 3.95 | 8.9% | 9.1% | -0.1pp | On target |
| UC San Diego | 3.89 | 13.2% | 22.5% | -9.3pp | Under |
| UC Santa Barbara | 3.86 | 26.5% | 27.4% | -0.9pp | On target |
| UC Irvine | 3.87 | 19.0% | 21.8% | -2.8pp | On target |
| UC Davis | 3.81 | 29.6% | 32.0% | -2.4pp | On target |
Where San Dimas High School sits vs. all California schools ⓘ
Overall, this school admits its UC applicants in line with what their GPAs predict (18.1% actual vs. 21.3% 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 | 40 | — | — | — | — | — | 3.98 | — |
| UCLA → Elite | 56 | 5 | 5 | 8.9% | 1.6% | 100.0% | 3.95 | 4.27 |
| UC San Diego → Selective | 53 | 7 | — | 13.2% | 2.2% | — | 3.89 | 4.26 |
| UC Santa Barbara → Selective | 49 | 13 | — | 26.5% | 4.1% | — | 3.86 | 4.26 |
| UC Irvine → Selective | 58 | 11 | 4 | 19.0% | 3.5% | 36.4% | 3.87 | 4.22 |
| UC Davis → | 27 | 8 | — | 29.6% | 2.5% | — | 3.81 | 4.14 |