School of Arts and Enterprise

Pomona · Los Angeles County · Pomona Unified · Public

Public Los Angeles County 🏛 Pomona Unified → ~88 seniors CDS 1964907…
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📋 At a glance

Programs & features
  • Program details not reported to CRDC
Academic signals
  • Academic signals not yet ingested for this school

Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.

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How School of Arts and Enterprise compares for families

Real college outcomes data available below.

  • Statewide12.5% UC Reach — 5.6 points below the California median of 18.1%.
  • vs Similar SchoolsRight at the peer median (14.4% UC Reach) across the 5 most similar nearby schools.
📊 Key takeaway · Class of 2025

School of Arts and Enterprise sent 70 applications to the six most selective University of California campuses and 15.7% were admitted, producing a UC Reach of 12.5%5.6 percentage points below the California median of 18.1%, higher than 29% of California high schools..

University of California outcomes · Class of 2025
UC Reach
12%
11 admits / 88 seniors
-1.9 pp vs. peer median (14.4%) · Ranked #7 of 10 similar schools
5-year trend
2022 · 4.2% 2025 · 12.5%
Where this sits on the California curve
CA median
18.1%
Top 10%
51.2%
This school
12.5%
0%50%100%
CA median 18.1% Top 10% ≥ 51.2% This school 12.5%

Higher than 29% of California high schools (978 ranked, ≥50 seniors)

📊 What this number means

School of Arts and Enterprise's UC Reach of 12.5% is below the California median (18.1%). The top 10% of CA schools achieve 51.2% or higher.

Overall, School of Arts and Enterprise's UC Reach is higher than 29% of California high schools (978 ranked).

UC Application Reach
79.5%
70 applications
In context: CA median 74.9% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 241.0% · Los Angeles Co. Top 10% ≥ 252.0% · higher than 53% of CA HS.
UC Admit Rate
15.7%
11 / 70 applications
In context: CA median 26.1% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 40.5% · higher than 2% of CA HS.
UC Yield Rate
27.3%
3 enrolled of 11 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
3.4%
3 enrollees / 88 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.
A-G Completion
51%
44 of 86 graduates · 2024-25 cohort
In context: CA median 55.9% · -4.7 pp vs. median · Los Angeles Co. 68.2%.
Selective UC Reach (UCSD, UCSB, UCI, UCD)
12.5
per 100 seniors · campus-level total
In context: CA median 15.4 · Top 10% statewide ≥ 41.5 · higher than 38% of CA HS.
Elite UC Reach (UCB + UCLA)
N/A
Senior Class Size
88
CDE grade 12 (exact)
Total School Enrollment
647
All grades · CDE Census Day
Avg. Applicant GPA · top-6 UCs
3.89

Where School of Arts and Enterprise sits vs. all California schools

Overall, this school admits its UC applicants 8.9 points above what their GPAs predict (32.4% actual vs. 23.5% expected).

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) Avg GPA (Adm)
UC Berkeley → Elite 14 3.94
UCLA → Elite 16 3.93
UC San Diego → Selective 14 3 3 21.4% 3.4% 100.0% 3.87
UC Santa Barbara → Selective 10 4 40.0% 4.5% 3.89
UC Irvine → Selective 10 4 40.0% 4.5% 3.77
UC Davis → 6 3.89
= UCOP-suppressed (count below 3 students, hidden for privacy — actual value is 0, 1, or 2, not necessarily zero). 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 →

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.

ELA — met or exceeded
n = 82
69.5%
incl. 31.7% exceeded
+11.5 pts above Los Angeles County median (58.0%) · CA median 54.3% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 79.3%
Math — met or exceeded
n = 83
16.9%
incl. 4.8% exceeded
-8.1 pts vs. Los Angeles County median (25.0%) · CA median 21.1% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 53.6%

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

Hispanic / Latino 80% -1.2
White 7%
Black / African Am. 6% +2.7
Two or more 4% -1.1
Filipino 1%

Program subgroups

Students w/ disabilities 56% +1.8
Socioeconomically disadv. 23% +2.7

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.

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.

Chronic absent
33.3%
120 of 360 students

Absenteeism is in the typical CA HS range. Worth monitoring alongside the demand and retention signals above.

Los Angeles County median
25.2% · school is worse than 67% of 381 HS
Statewide median
22.9%
Chronic absenteeism by year (raw %)

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).

Enrollment trend & projection

Total enrollment (9–12)
698 (2022)621 (2026)
-11.0%
Grade 12 (graduating class)
95 (2022)84 (2026)
-11.6%

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) ~603 -18 $0
3 yr (2029) ~569 -52 $0
5 yr (2031) ~537 -84 $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.

School of Arts and Enterprise — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot

Public · Pomona · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools

  • On UC Reach, School of Arts and Enterprise sits in the middle of its similar-school group (ranked #7 of 10): 12% vs. a peer median of 14%.
  • Its UC Reach has risen 8 points since 2022.
  • Across the top-6 UC campuses, School of Arts and Enterprise is admitting at roughly +9 percentage points above what its average applicant GPA (3.845) alone would predict (32% actual vs. 24% expected). That's a meaningful signal — it can reflect UC's track record with this school's graduates, students presenting strongly in UC's holistic review (essays, EC's, context), or institutional familiarity helping at the margin. The data can't distinguish which, but the pattern itself is real and worth understanding.
  • Senior-class enrollment is down 12% (95→84 from 2022 to 2026), outpacing the peer-group median of -23%.
  • At its recent rate (-2.9%/yr), enrollment projects to ~569 by 2029 — about 52 fewer students than today.

Enrollment projection

621 students (2026)
~569 projected (2029)
at -2.9%/yr

That's about 52 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
School of Arts and Enterprise Public 621 12.5% -12%
Peer-group median 14.4% -23%
Fremont Academy Of Engineering And Design Public 574 -55%
Ganesha High School Public 799 14.0% -1%
Pomona High School Public 906 15.0% -27%
International Polytechnic Hs Public 457 30.8% -17%
Edgewood High School Public 649 14.4% -9%
William Workman High Public 680 8.2% -43%
LA Puente High School Public 753 15.1% -27%
Don Antonio Lugo High School Public 1158 9.9% -24%
Covina High School Public 1001 21.8% -13%
Garey High School Public 1423 12.5% -22%

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 →

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.

Tracking baseline
Tracking county on both axes.

Enrollment and retention both close to Los Angeles County baseline. The demographic tide is the main mover; no internal break in the system, but no outperformance either. Chronic absenteeism is rising (29.6%, +-5.7 pts since 2021-22) — a watch signal worth monitoring as a leading indicator.

-11.6%  school enrollment (2022–2026)
-11.2%  Los Angeles County baseline
-0.4pp  gap vs. county
85.8%  retention (county median 87.3%)
Enrollment — indexed to 100 at 2022
Stability rate by year (raw %)
Stability rate
85.8%
326 of 380 students

54 of 380 students who enrolled at School of Arts and Enterprise this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (14.2% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.

Los Angeles County median
87.3% · school is in the 43rd percentile of 387 HS
Statewide median
87.2% · in the 44th percentile of 1,688 HS

Stability by student group

Hispanic / Latino (569) 87.2%
Socio. disadvantaged (515) 84.9%
Students w/ disabilities (150) 86.0%
English learners (71) 81.7%
White (59) 79.7%
Two or more races (40) 75.0%

Nearest peer high schools

Fremont Academy Of Engineering And Design 84.7% Ganesha High School 82.7% Pomona High School 81.3% International Polytechnic Hs 95.5% Edgewood High School 89.2%

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.

District financial profile — Pomona 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.

Total revenue
$510.8M
+17.9% since FY2017
Per-pupil revenue
$22,817
22,388 students enrolled
Revenue mix
State: 59.7%
Local: 22.0%
Federal: 18.3%
Instruction share
55.6%
of current spending · $9,053/pupil
Long-term debt
$382.3M
+29.6% since FY2017
Total revenue by year ($M)
Total expenditure by year ($M)

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 Pomona 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).

What This Means

A large share of the senior class applies to UC, indicating strong college-going culture and UC pipeline development.
A large share of the class applies to UC, so the admit rate runs lower than the application volume alone might suggest — expected when many students apply broadly, including to reach campuses. UC Reach (which credits every admit relative to the class) is the truer read of how the class fares: a strong Reach alongside a moderate admit rate is healthy, not a contradiction.
Fewer than 15% of seniors are earning UC admission. This may reflect a high non-UC college-going rate, significant A-G completion gaps, or an early-stage UC pipeline. A deeper review of A-G readiness and counseling capacity is warranted.
Students are earning UC admission but enrolling elsewhere at a notable rate. This may reflect competition from private colleges, out-of-state flagships, cost considerations, or UC campus fit. Student outcome surveys can clarify.
UC Reach has improved meaningfully compared to the prior year — a positive trajectory worth monitoring and reinforcing.
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.
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