Vasquez High School
📄 Shareable scorecard →Enrollment trend & projection
If this trend holds (+1.4%/yr, Total enrollment)
At per-pupil funding of $ / student:
| Horizon | Projected Total enrollment | Change | Funding impact / yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 yr (2027) | ~423 | +6 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2029) | ~435 | +18 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2031) | ~448 | +31 | $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.
Families who enroll at Vasquez High School stay (90.4% stability — elite). But enrollment is dropping faster than Los Angeles County (school -10.2% vs. county -8.2%). The audit question isn't why students leave — it's why fewer families are choosing to enroll in the first place. Chronic absenteeism is also at 31.8% (up +16.6 pts from 2016-17) — engagement and demand are both signaling decline.
40 of 417 students who enrolled at Vasquez High School this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (9.6% 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 16.7 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 — Acton-Agua Dulce 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: 42.0%
Federal: 9.0%
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 Acton-Agua Dulce 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).
-46.1 pp vs. peer median (55.1%) · Ranked #3 of 3 similar schools
18.5%
55.1%
53.3%
9.0%
Higher than 15% of California high schools (1105 ranked, ≥50 seniors)
Vasquez High School's UC Reach of 9.0% is below the California median (18.5%). The top 10% of CA schools achieve 53.3% or higher.
Against similar schools, Vasquez High School trails the peer-group median (55.1%) — even though it looks strong vs. the state average.
Overall, Vasquez High School's UC Reach is higher than 15% of California high schools (1105 ranked).
Vasquez High School — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot
Public · Acton · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools
- ▸On UC Reach, Vasquez High School sits near the bottom of its similar-school group (ranked #3 of 3): 9% vs. a peer median of 55%.
- ▸Its UC Reach has risen 2 points since 2019.
- ▸Senior-class enrollment is down 10% (98→88 from 2018 to 2026), outpacing the peer-group median of -19%.
- ▸Enrollment has been growing (+1.4%/yr); projects to ~435 by 2029.
Enrollment projection
Your school vs. its 10 most similar nearby schools
| School | Type | Size | UC Reach | Enroll. trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vasquez High School | Public | 417 | 9.0% | -10% |
| Peer-group median | 55.1% | -19% | ||
| High Desert | Public | 327 | — | — |
| R Rex Parris High School | Public | 418 | — | -39% |
| Desert Winds Continuation High | Public | 468 | — | -20% |
| Cesar E. Chavez Learning Academies-Social Justice Humanitas Academy | Public | 432 | — | -24% |
| Cesar E. Chavez Learning Academies-Academy Of Scientific Exploration (ase) | Public | 397 | — | -17% |
| Puc Lakeview Charter High | Public | 451 | — | -19% |
| Desert Sands Charter | Public | 604 | — | -63% |
| Academy of the Canyons | Public | 375 | 68.0% | -2% |
| Sun Valley Magnet School | Public | 387 | 42.2% | +18% |
| Soar High (students On Academic Rise) | Public | 720 | — | +60% |
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 | 4.01 | 55.6% | 19.8% | +35.8pp | Over |
| UC Santa Barbara | 3.85 | 60.0% | 27.3% | +32.7pp | Over |
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 | 5 | — | — | — | — | — | 4.31 | — |
| UCLA → Elite | 9 | — | — | — | — | — | 4.01 | — |
| UC San Diego → Selective | 9 | 5 | — | 55.6% | 5.6% | — | 4.01 | 4.31 |
| UC Santa Barbara → Selective | 5 | 3 | — | 60.0% | 3.4% | — | 3.85 | — |
| UC Irvine → Selective | 6 | — | — | — | — | — | 3.86 | — |