Summit Public School K2
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John F. Kennedy High → Aspire Richmond Ca. College Preparatory Academy → Invictus Academy Of Richmond → Oakland Military Institute, College Preparatory Academy → John Henry High School → Compare all similar →Enrollment trend & projection
If this trend holds (+3.0%/yr, Total enrollment)
At per-pupil funding of $ / student:
| Horizon | Projected Total enrollment | Change | Funding impact / yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 yr (2027) | ~555 | +16 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2029) | ~589 | +50 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2031) | ~624 | +85 | $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 Contra Costa County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.
Summit Public School K2 is shrinking (-4.8%) but Contra Costa County is shrinking faster (-9.4%), so Summit Public School K2 is winning roughly 4.6 pp of relative market share. Combined with 92.8% stability (county median 89.5%), this reflects a school that families actively chose during a market contraction. Replicable model — worth documenting what's working. Chronic absenteeism is rising (25.5%, +14.2 pts since 2016-17) — a watch signal worth monitoring as a leading indicator.
28 of 387 students who enrolled at Summit Public School K2 this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (7.2% 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 16.0 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 — Contra Costa County Office of Education (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: 60.2%
Federal: 8.1%
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 Contra Costa County Office of Education 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).
-15.1 pp vs. peer median (20.2%) · Ranked #9 of 9 similar schools
18.5%
53.3%
5.1%
Higher than 4% of California high schools (1105 ranked, ≥50 seniors)
Summit Public School K2's UC Reach of 5.1% is below the California median (18.5%). The top 10% of CA schools achieve 53.3% or higher.
But in Contra Costa County, where the local median is 25.6% and the top-10% bar is 58.5%, this score is mid-pack rather than exceptional — typical of its market rather than a standout.
Overall, Summit Public School K2's UC Reach is higher than 4% of California high schools (1105 ranked).
Summit Public School K2 — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot
Public · El Cerrito · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools
- ▸On UC Reach, Summit Public School K2 sits near the bottom of its similar-school group (ranked #9 of 9): 5% vs. a peer median of 20%.
- ▸Its UC Reach has slipped 26 points since 2020 — worth watching.
- ▸Senior-class enrollment is down 5% (83→79 from 2020 to 2026), tracking the peer-group median of -5%.
- ▸In business terms, this is market-share growth during a market contraction. Contra Costa County's senior population shrank 9% over the same window — Summit Public School K2 only shrank 5%. So Summit Public School K2 picked up about 5 percentage points of relative share — families chose it over the alternatives even as the overall pool got smaller. That's overperforming the market in a shrinking market.
- ▸Enrollment has been growing (+3.0%/yr); projects to ~589 by 2029.
Enrollment projection
Your school vs. its 10 most similar nearby schools
| School | Type | Size | UC Reach | Enroll. trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Summit Public School K2 | Public | 539 | 5.1% | -5% |
| Peer-group median | 20.2% | -5% | ||
| John F. Kennedy High | Public | 625 | 7.4% | -34% |
| Aspire Richmond Ca. College Preparatory Academy | Public | 606 | — | +38% |
| Invictus Academy Of Richmond | Public | 399 | 6.6% | -7% |
| Oakland Military Institute, College Preparatory Academy | Public | 501 | — | -52% |
| John Henry High School | Public | 338 | 14.5% | +36% |
| Piedmont High School | Public | 713 | 53.7% | -5% |
| Nea Community Learning Center | Public | 442 | 16.0% | +7% |
| Gateway High School | Public | 475 | 39.2% | -1% |
| Hercules High School | Public | 817 | 24.5% | -23% |
| Life Academy High School | Public | 434 | 27.4% | -5% |
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 Davis | 3.49 | 18.2% | 33.5% | -15.3pp | Under |
UC Outcomes Trend — 2020–2025
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 | 29 | — | — | — | — | — | 3.53 | — |
| UCLA → Elite | 21 | — | — | — | — | — | 3.54 | — |
| UC San Diego → Selective | 7 | — | — | — | — | — | 3.49 | — |
| UC Irvine → Selective | 12 | — | — | — | — | — | 3.46 | — |
| UC Davis → | 22 | 4 | — | 18.2% | 5.1% | — | 3.49 | — |