Enrollment & Outcomes Scorecard
Thomas Jefferson High School
Public · Los Angeles · Los Angeles County · 490 students · Class of 2025
UC Reach · Class of 2025
16%
Higher than 44% of California high schools
-6.5 pp vs. peer median (22.4%)
· Ranked #5 of 6 similar schools
5-year UC Reach
2021 · 21.0%
2025 · 15.9%
-2%
Senior-class enrollment (2018–2026)
+5.8 pp
vs. Los Angeles County baseline (-8%)
~436
5-yr projected enrollment (54 fewer than today)
- ▸On UC Reach, Thomas Jefferson High School sits near the bottom of its similar-school group (ranked #5 of 6): 16% vs. a peer median of 22%.
- ▸Its UC Reach has held roughly steady since 2018.
- ▸Senior-class enrollment is down 2% (124→121 from 2018 to 2026), tracking the peer-group median of -2%.
- ▸In business terms, this is market-share growth during a market contraction. Los Angeles County's senior population shrank 8% over the same window — Thomas Jefferson High School only shrank 2%. So Thomas Jefferson High School picked up about 6 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.
- ▸At its recent rate (-3.8%/yr), enrollment projects to ~436 by 2029 — about 54 fewer students than today.
Most similar nearby schools
| School | Type | UC Reach | Enroll. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallis Annenberg High School | Public | 45.7% | +13% |
| Animo Ralph Bunche Charter Hs | Public | 20.7% | -3% |
| Diego Rivera Learning Complex Green Design Steam Academy | Public | — | +9% |
| Linda Esperanza Marquez High C School Of Social Justice | Public | — | -6% |
| New Designs Charter School | Public | 8.4% | +44% |
| University Preparatory Value High | Public | — | -5% |
UC Reach = top-6 UC admits ÷ senior class. Sources: UCOP Admissions by Source School, CDE enrollment, IRS Form 990, NCES F-33. Test Prep Gurus Intelligence by Test Prep Gurus · Methodology
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