Vallejo High School
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Jesse M Bethel High School → Benicia High School → Pinole Valley High School → American Canyon High School → Alhambra Senior High → Compare all similar →Enrollment trend & projection
If this trend holds (-4.5%/yr, Total enrollment)
At per-pupil funding of $ / student:
| Horizon | Projected Total enrollment | Change | Funding impact / yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 yr (2027) | ~1,126 | -53 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2029) | ~1,028 | -151 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2031) | ~938 | -241 | $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 Solano County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.
Enrollment -24.4% vs. county -1.8% AND stability (75.2%) below the county median. Recruitment and retention both under pressure — likely a foundational rather than tactical problem. Chronic absenteeism is also at 46.7% (up +2.4 pts from 2016-17) — engagement and demand are both signaling decline.
319 of 1,287 students who enrolled at Vallejo High School this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (24.8% 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.
Roughly one in three students is chronically absent. A floor this high signals systemic engagement problems beyond what any single intervention can fix.
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 — Vallejo City 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: 28.5%
Federal: 12.4%
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 Vallejo City 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).
-13.5 pp vs. peer median (16.8%) · Ranked #11 of 11 similar schools
18.5%
53.3%
3.3%
Higher than 1% of California high schools (1105 ranked, ≥50 seniors)
Vallejo High School's UC Reach of 3.3% is below the California median (18.5%). The top 10% of CA schools achieve 53.3% or higher.
Overall, Vallejo High School's UC Reach is higher than 1% of California high schools (1105 ranked).
Vallejo High School — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot
Public · Vallejo · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools
- ▸On UC Reach, Vallejo High School sits near the bottom of its similar-school group (ranked #11 of 11): 3% vs. a peer median of 17%.
- ▸Its UC Reach has held roughly steady since 2018.
- ▸Senior-class enrollment is down 24% (390→295 from 2018 to 2026), trailing the peer-group median of -10%.
- ▸At its recent rate (-4.5%/yr), enrollment projects to ~1028 by 2029 — about 151 fewer students than today.
Enrollment projection
That's about 151 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vallejo High School | Public | 1179 | 3.3% | -24% |
| Peer-group median | 16.8% | -10% | ||
| Jesse M Bethel High School | Public | 1360 | 11.0% | -8% |
| Benicia High School | Public | 1367 | 26.8% | -13% |
| Pinole Valley High School | Public | 1224 | 13.2% | +10% |
| American Canyon High School | Public | 1769 | 19.3% | +19% |
| Alhambra Senior High | Public | 1020 | 12.8% | -11% |
| Making Waves Academy | Public | 1006 | 38.2% | +63% |
| De Anza High School | Public | 1023 | 12.5% | -20% |
| Richmond High School | Public | 1233 | 14.2% | -12% |
| Hercules High School | Public | 817 | 24.5% | -23% |
| Albany High School | Public | 1123 | 48.3% | +15% |
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 San Diego | 3.89 | 50.0% | 22.4% | +27.6pp | Over |
| UC Davis | 3.73 | 15.0% | 32.1% | -17.1pp | Under |
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 | 11 | — | — | — | — | — | 3.81 | — |
| UCLA → Elite | 10 | — | — | — | — | — | 3.81 | — |
| UC San Diego → Selective | 12 | 6 | — | 50.0% | 2.2% | — | 3.89 | 4.15 |
| UC Davis → | 20 | 3 | 3 | 15.0% | 1.1% | 100.0% | 3.73 | — |