Sheldon High School
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Monterey Trail High School → Pleasant Grove High School → Laguna Creek High School → Cosumnes Oaks High School → Franklin High School → Compare all similar →Enrollment trend & projection
If this trend holds (-0.6%/yr, Total enrollment)
At per-pupil funding of $ / student:
| Horizon | Projected Total enrollment | Change | Funding impact / yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 yr (2027) | ~2,343 | -14 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2029) | ~2,316 | -41 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2031) | ~2,288 | -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 Sacramento County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.
Sheldon High School outperformed Sacramento County on enrollment (school +12.6% vs. county +3.0%) AND maintains 86.3% stability. Replicable model — worth documenting what's working.
350 of 2,546 students who enrolled at Sheldon High School this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (13.7% 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 9.0 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 — Elk Grove 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: 22.4%
Federal: 10.1%
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 Elk Grove 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).
-5.5 pp vs. peer median (20.4%) · Ranked #8 of 11 similar schools
18.5%
53.3%
14.9%
Higher than 41% of California high schools (1105 ranked, ≥50 seniors)
Sheldon High School's UC Reach of 14.9% is below the California median (18.5%). The top 10% of CA schools achieve 53.3% or higher.
Overall, Sheldon High School's UC Reach is higher than 41% of California high schools (1105 ranked).
Sheldon High School — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot
Public · Sacramento · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools
- ▸On UC Reach, Sheldon High School sits in the middle of its similar-school group (ranked #8 of 11): 15% vs. a peer median of 20%.
- ▸Its UC Reach has risen 2 points since 2018.
- ▸Senior-class enrollment is up 13% (554→624 from 2018 to 2026), outpacing the peer-group median of +8%.
- ▸At its recent rate (-0.6%/yr), enrollment projects to ~2316 by 2029 — about 41 fewer students than today.
Enrollment projection
That's about 41 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sheldon High School | Public | 2357 | 14.9% | +13% |
| Peer-group median | 20.4% | +8% | ||
| Monterey Trail High School | Public | 2203 | 17.3% | +5% |
| Pleasant Grove High School | Public | 2581 | 21.9% | +5% |
| Laguna Creek High School | Public | 2252 | 14.7% | +48% |
| Cosumnes Oaks High School | Public | 2190 | 42.1% | -10% |
| Franklin High School | Public | 2695 | 26.8% | +2% |
| Elk Grove High School | Public | 1781 | 6.8% | -8% |
| Florin High School | Public | 1616 | 19.0% | +15% |
| C K Mcclatchy High School | Public | 2617 | 27.5% | +16% |
| Rio Americano High School | Public | 1930 | 22.8% | +25% |
| Cordova High School | Public | 2043 | 7.8% | +11% |
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 | 3.85 | 6.6% | 11.6% | -5.1pp | Under |
| UC San Diego | 3.82 | 18.5% | 24.3% | -5.9pp | Under |
| UC Santa Barbara | 3.74 | 43.2% | 26.5% | +16.8pp | Over |
| UC Irvine | 3.81 | 33.8% | 20.3% | +13.5pp | Over |
| UC Davis | 3.78 | 35.2% | 32.0% | +3.2pp | On target |
Where Sheldon High School sits vs. all California schools ⓘ
Overall, this school admits its UC applicants in line with what their GPAs predict (27.4% actual vs. 23.9% 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 | 61 | 4 | — | 6.6% | 0.6% | — | 3.85 | — |
| UCLA → Elite | 55 | — | — | — | — | — | 3.83 | — |
| UC San Diego → Selective | 65 | 12 | 4 | 18.5% | 1.9% | 33.3% | 3.82 | 4.22 |
| UC Santa Barbara → Selective | 37 | 16 | 4 | 43.2% | 2.6% | 25.0% | 3.74 | 4.04 |
| UC Irvine → Selective | 68 | 23 | 5 | 33.8% | 3.7% | 21.7% | 3.81 | 4.06 |
| UC Davis → | 108 | 38 | 20 | 35.2% | 6.1% | 52.6% | 3.78 | 4.13 |