Washington High School
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Irvington High School → Mission San Jose High School → American High School → Mt. Eden High → John F. Kennedy High → Compare all similar →Enrollment trend & projection
If this trend holds (+0.2%/yr, Total enrollment)
At per-pupil funding of $ / student:
| Horizon | Projected Total enrollment | Change | Funding impact / yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 yr (2027) | ~1,967 | +3 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2029) | ~1,973 | +9 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2031) | ~1,979 | +15 | $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 Alameda County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.
Enrollment is shrinking 2.5× the county rate (school -1.5% vs. county +0.6%) with stability (91.2%) near the county median. Two problems compounding — the recruitment side is the higher-leverage starting point.
180 of 2,050 students who enrolled at Washington High School this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (8.8% 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.
Absenteeism is up 3.4 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 — Fremont 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: 41.5%
Federal: 6.2%
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 Fremont 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).
-22.9 pp vs. peer median (56.8%) · Ranked #6 of 9 similar schools
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53.3%
33.9%
Higher than 77% of California high schools (1105 ranked, ≥50 seniors)
Washington High School's UC Reach of 33.9% is in the top quartile statewide (median 18.5%; top 25% bar 32.0%) — but it's still below the top-10% bar of 53.3%.
Against similar schools, Washington High School trails the peer-group median (56.8%) — even though it looks strong vs. the state average.
For context, the elite tier (top 1%) clears 102.7% — a gap of 69 pp from where this school sits.
Overall, Washington High School's UC Reach is higher than 77% of California high schools (1105 ranked).
Washington High School — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot
Public · Fremont · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools
- ▸On UC Reach, Washington High School sits in the middle of its similar-school group (ranked #6 of 9): 34% vs. a peer median of 57%.
- ▸Its UC Reach has held roughly steady since 2018.
- ▸Senior-class enrollment is down 2% (478→471 from 2018 to 2026), outpacing the peer-group median of -11%.
- ▸Enrollment has been growing (+0.2%/yr); projects to ~1973 by 2029.
Enrollment projection
Your school vs. its 10 most similar nearby schools
| School | Type | Size | UC Reach | Enroll. trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Washington High School | Public | 1964 | 33.9% | -2% |
| Peer-group median | 56.8% | -11% | ||
| Irvington High School | Public | 2141 | 60.6% | -15% |
| Mission San Jose High School | Public | 1740 | 70.1% | -16% |
| American High School | Public | 2694 | 68.3% | +24% |
| Mt. Eden High | Public | 1868 | — | +6% |
| John F. Kennedy High | Public | 1308 | 21.1% | -14% |
| Newark Memorial High School | Public | 1306 | 24.6% | -21% |
| Foothill High | Public | 2156 | 53.0% | +5% |
| James Logan High School | Public | 3054 | 22.7% | -22% |
| Palo Alto Senior High School | Public | 1828 | 69.9% | -8% |
| Palo Alto High | Public | 1828 | — | -2% |
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 Berkeley | 3.93 | 9.2% | 11.9% | -2.7pp | On target |
| UCLA | 3.95 | 10.1% | 9.1% | +1.0pp | On target |
| UC San Diego | 3.93 | 19.4% | 21.6% | -2.1pp | On target |
| UC Santa Barbara | 3.91 | 27.6% | 28.8% | -1.2pp | On target |
| UC Irvine | 3.90 | 18.7% | 22.9% | -4.2pp | On target |
| UC Davis | 3.88 | 31.3% | 32.2% | -0.9pp | On target |
Where Washington High School sits vs. all California schools ⓘ
Overall, this school admits its UC applicants in line with what their GPAs predict (19.4% actual vs. 21.2% 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 | 142 | 13 | 12 | 9.2% | 2.6% | 92.3% | 3.93 | 4.25 |
| UCLA → Elite | 139 | 14 | 6 | 10.1% | 2.8% | 42.9% | 3.95 | 4.29 |
| UC San Diego → Selective | 144 | 28 | 7 | 19.4% | 5.7% | 25.0% | 3.93 | 4.22 |
| UC Santa Barbara → Selective | 134 | 37 | — | 27.6% | 7.5% | — | 3.91 | 4.23 |
| UC Irvine → Selective | 150 | 28 | 4 | 18.7% | 5.7% | 14.3% | 3.90 | 4.22 |
| UC Davis → | 150 | 47 | 16 | 31.3% | 9.6% | 34.0% | 3.88 | 4.16 |