Woodrow Wilson High School
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If this trend holds (-2.6%/yr, Total enrollment)
At per-pupil funding of $ / student:
| Horizon | Projected Total enrollment | Change | Funding impact / yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 yr (2027) | ~1,169 | -32 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2029) | ~1,108 | -93 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2031) | ~1,050 | -151 | $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.
Tracking Los Angeles County on enrollment (-6.9% vs. -8.2%), but stability (83.7%) is below the county median. Retention is the levered fix. Chronic absenteeism is also at 39.1% (up +21.9 pts from 2016-17) — engagement and demand are both signaling decline.
219 of 1,344 students who enrolled at Woodrow Wilson High School this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (16.3% 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 21.8 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 — Los Angeles 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: 29.8%
Federal: 18.5%
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 Los Angeles 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).
-3.8 pp vs. peer median (27.9%) · Ranked #6 of 9 similar schools
18.5%
27.9%
53.3%
24.1%
Higher than 62% of California high schools (1105 ranked, ≥50 seniors)
Woodrow Wilson High School's UC Reach of 24.1% is above the California median (18.5%). The top 10% of CA schools achieve 53.3% or higher.
For context, the elite tier (top 1%) clears 102.7% — a gap of 79 pp from where this school sits.
Overall, Woodrow Wilson High School's UC Reach is higher than 62% of California high schools (1105 ranked).
Woodrow Wilson High School — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot
Public · Long Beach · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools
- ▸On UC Reach, Woodrow Wilson High School sits in the middle of its similar-school group (ranked #6 of 9): 24% vs. a peer median of 28%.
- ▸Its UC Reach has risen 4 points since 2018.
- ▸Senior-class enrollment is down 7% (317→295 from 2018 to 2026), outpacing the peer-group median of -15%.
- ▸At its recent rate (-2.6%/yr), enrollment projects to ~1108 by 2029 — about 93 fewer students than today.
Enrollment projection
That's about 93 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Woodrow Wilson High School | Public | 1201 | 24.1% | -7% |
| Peer-group median | 27.9% | -15% | ||
| Benjamin Franklin High School | Public | 1182 | 21.2% | +2% |
| Francisco Bravo Medical Magnet | Public | 1428 | 30.4% | -24% |
| Ramon C. Cortines School Of Visual And Performing Arts | Public | 1069 | — | -14% |
| South Pasadena High School | Public | 1496 | 46.2% | +3% |
| Gabrielino High School | Public | 1368 | 31.5% | -24% |
| City of Angels School | Public | 898 | 0.9% | -54% |
| Blair High School | Public | 951 | 25.4% | +4% |
| Santee Education Complex | Public | 1469 | 22.9% | +5% |
| Youthbuild Charter School Of California | Public | 881 | — | -60% |
| San Gabriel High School | Public | 1726 | 33.1% | -16% |
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 | 3.79 | 15.6% | 11.9% | +3.6pp | On target |
| UCLA | 3.77 | 8.2% | 9.1% | -0.9pp | On target |
| UC San Diego | 3.76 | 32.1% | 26.1% | +6.1pp | Over |
| UC Santa Barbara | 3.73 | 43.6% | 26.6% | +17.0pp | Over |
| UC Irvine | 3.73 | 20.9% | 18.5% | +2.4pp | On target |
| UC Davis | 3.65 | 28.6% | 32.3% | -3.7pp | On target |
Where Woodrow Wilson High School sits vs. all California schools ⓘ
Overall, this school admits its UC applicants in line with what their GPAs predict (22.9% actual vs. 19.2% 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 | 45 | 7 | 5 | 15.6% | 2.3% | 71.4% | 3.79 | 4.13 |
| UCLA → Elite | 73 | 6 | 10 | 8.2% | 2.0% | 100.0% | 3.77 | 4.17 |
| UC San Diego → Selective | 56 | 18 | 7 | 32.1% | 6.0% | 38.9% | 3.76 | 4.11 |
| UC Santa Barbara → Selective | 39 | 17 | 13 | 43.6% | 5.7% | 76.5% | 3.73 | 4.04 |
| UC Irvine → Selective | 67 | 14 | 3 | 20.9% | 4.7% | 21.4% | 3.73 | 4.08 |
| UC Davis → | 35 | 10 | 7 | 28.6% | 3.3% | 70.0% | 3.65 | 3.99 |