Stella High Charter Academy
📄 Shareable scorecard →Enrollment trend & projection
If this trend holds (+0.8%/yr, Total enrollment)
At per-pupil funding of $ / student:
| Horizon | Projected Total enrollment | Change | Funding impact / yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 yr (2027) | ~572 | +5 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2029) | ~581 | +14 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2031) | ~590 | +23 | $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.
Stella High Charter Academy outperformed Los Angeles County on enrollment (school +2.5% vs. county -8.2%) AND maintains 90.7% stability. Replicable model — worth documenting what's working. Chronic absenteeism is rising (29.4%, +17.6 pts since 2016-17) — a watch signal worth monitoring as a leading indicator.
54 of 579 students who enrolled at Stella High Charter Academy this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (9.3% 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 17.6 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).
-1.1 pp vs. peer median (17.1%) · Ranked #3 of 4 similar schools
18.5%
53.3%
16.0%
Higher than 45% of California high schools (1105 ranked, ≥50 seniors)
Stella High Charter Academy's UC Reach of 16.0% is below the California median (18.5%). The top 10% of CA schools achieve 53.3% or higher.
Overall, Stella High Charter Academy's UC Reach is higher than 45% of California high schools (1105 ranked).
Stella High Charter Academy — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot
Public · Los Angeles · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools
- ▸On UC Reach, Stella High Charter Academy sits near the bottom of its similar-school group (ranked #3 of 4): 16% vs. a peer median of 17%.
- ▸Its UC Reach has risen 14 points since 2018.
- ▸Senior-class enrollment is up 2% (122→125 from 2018 to 2026), outpacing the peer-group median of -1%.
- ▸Enrollment has been growing (+0.8%/yr); projects to ~581 by 2029.
Enrollment projection
Your school vs. its 10 most similar nearby schools
| School | Type | Size | UC Reach | Enroll. trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stella High Charter Academy | Public | 567 | 16.0% | +2% |
| Peer-group median | 17.1% | -1% | ||
| Animo South Los Angeles Charter | Public | 575 | — | +4% |
| Hawthorne Math And Science Academy | Public | 573 | — | -5% |
| Animo Watts College Preparatory Academy | Public | 550 | — | -4% |
| Mervyn M Dymally High School | Public | 580 | 8.3% | -2% |
| Lennox Mathematics, Science And Technology Academy | Public | 586 | — | +1% |
| Family First Charter | Public | 579 | — | -73% |
| Alliance Judy Ivie Burton Technology Academy High | Public | 616 | — | +3% |
| Animo Inglewood Charter Hs | Public | 614 | 48.6% | -2% |
| Animo Leadership High | Public | 630 | — | +13% |
| George Washington Preparatory | Public | 685 | 17.1% | +27% |
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 | 3.68 | 10.3% | 9.4% | +0.9pp | On target |
| UC San Diego | 3.51 | 30.4% | 35.1% | -4.7pp | On target |
| UC Santa Barbara | 3.51 | 23.5% | 33.5% | -10.0pp | Under |
| UC Davis | 3.58 | 38.9% | 32.7% | +6.2pp | Over |
Where Stella High Charter Academy sits vs. all California schools ⓘ
Overall, this school admits its UC applicants in line with what their GPAs predict (24.1% actual vs. 25.7% 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 | 19 | — | — | — | — | — | 3.64 | — |
| UCLA → Elite | 29 | 3 | 3 | 10.3% | 2.3% | 100.0% | 3.68 | — |
| UC San Diego → Selective | 23 | 7 | 3 | 30.4% | 5.3% | 42.9% | 3.51 | 3.95 |
| UC Santa Barbara → Selective | 17 | 4 | — | 23.5% | 3.1% | — | 3.51 | — |
| UC Irvine → Selective | 33 | — | — | — | — | — | 3.66 | — |
| UC Davis → | 18 | 7 | — | 38.9% | 5.3% | — | 3.58 | 4.04 |