Santee Education Complex
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Foshay Learning Center → Francisco Bravo Medical Magnet → Huntington Park High School → Ramon C. Cortines School Of Visual And Performing Arts → John C Fremont High School → Compare all similar →Enrollment trend & projection
If this trend holds (-2.9%/yr, Total enrollment)
At per-pupil funding of $ / student:
| Horizon | Projected Total enrollment | Change | Funding impact / yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 yr (2027) | ~1,427 | -42 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2029) | ~1,345 | -124 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2031) | ~1,269 | -200 | $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.
Enrollment growth is beating Los Angeles County (+5.1% vs. -8.2%), but 256 of 1701 students didn't maintain continuous enrollment. Why are families leaving once enrolled? Chronic absenteeism is also at 40.2% (up +23.1 pts from 2016-17) — engagement and demand are both signaling decline.
256 of 1,701 students who enrolled at Santee Education Complex this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (15.0% 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 23.1 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.
District financial profile — Los Angeles 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: 29.8%
Federal: 18.5%
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 Los Angeles 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).
-2.5 pp vs. peer median (25.4%) · Ranked #5 of 7 similar schools
18.5%
25.4%
53.3%
22.9%
Higher than 61% of California high schools (1105 ranked, ≥50 seniors)
Santee Education Complex's UC Reach of 22.9% 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 80 pp from where this school sits.
Overall, Santee Education Complex's UC Reach is higher than 61% of California high schools (1105 ranked).
Santee Education Complex — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot
Public · Los Angeles · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools
- ▸On UC Reach, Santee Education Complex sits in the middle of its similar-school group (ranked #5 of 7): 23% vs. a peer median of 25%.
- ▸Its UC Reach has risen 9 points since 2018.
- ▸Senior-class enrollment is up 5% (292→307 from 2018 to 2026), outpacing the peer-group median of -10%.
- ▸At its recent rate (-2.9%/yr), enrollment projects to ~1345 by 2029 — about 124 fewer students than today.
Enrollment projection
That's about 124 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santee Education Complex | Public | 1469 | 22.9% | +5% |
| Peer-group median | 25.4% | -10% | ||
| Foshay Learning Center | Public | 1558 | 42.9% | +6% |
| Francisco Bravo Medical Magnet | Public | 1428 | 30.4% | -24% |
| Huntington Park High School | Public | 1383 | 23.6% | -14% |
| Ramon C. Cortines School Of Visual And Performing Arts | Public | 1069 | — | -14% |
| John C Fremont High School | Public | 1865 | 14.1% | +11% |
| Augustus Hawkins High | Public | 1060 | — | +168% |
| Youthbuild Charter School Of California | Public | 881 | — | -60% |
| Manual Arts Senior High School | Public | 902 | 27.1% | -6% |
| Manual Arts Senior High | Public | 902 | — | -33% |
| Dr Maya Angelou Community Hs | Public | 909 | 18.8% | +61% |
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 | 3.67 | 14.6% | 13.7% | +0.9pp | On target |
| UCLA | 3.60 | 9.8% | 10.0% | -0.2pp | On target |
| UC San Diego | 3.60 | 37.1% | 31.8% | +5.3pp | Over |
| UC Santa Barbara | 3.53 | 19.5% | 32.7% | -13.2pp | Under |
| UC Irvine | 3.60 | 16.5% | 16.3% | +0.2pp | On target |
| UC Davis | 3.55 | 31.6% | 32.9% | -1.3pp | On target |
Where Santee Education Complex sits vs. all California schools ⓘ
Overall, this school admits its UC applicants in line with what their GPAs predict (19.4% actual vs. 20.9% 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 | 48 | 7 | 5 | 14.6% | 1.8% | 71.4% | 3.67 | 4.24 |
| UCLA → Elite | 123 | 12 | 7 | 9.8% | 3.1% | 58.3% | 3.60 | 4.24 |
| UC San Diego → Selective | 70 | 26 | 3 | 37.1% | 6.8% | 11.5% | 3.60 | 4.04 |
| UC Santa Barbara → Selective | 77 | 15 | 3 | 19.5% | 3.9% | 20.0% | 3.53 | 4.17 |
| UC Irvine → Selective | 97 | 16 | — | 16.5% | 4.2% | — | 3.60 | 4.10 |
| UC Davis → | 38 | 12 | — | 31.6% | 3.1% | — | 3.55 | 4.04 |