Woodbridge High School
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University High → Northwood High School → Irvine High School → Segerstrom High School → Portola High School → Compare all similar →Enrollment trend & projection
If this trend holds (-1.1%/yr, Total enrollment)
At per-pupil funding of $ / student:
| Horizon | Projected Total enrollment | Change | Funding impact / yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 yr (2027) | ~2,195 | -25 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2029) | ~2,147 | -73 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2031) | ~2,100 | -120 | $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 Orange County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.
Woodbridge High School's enrollment is tracking Orange County's baseline (-8.4% vs. -7.1%), and 94.2% stability is elite. The demographic tide is the headwind; you're holding your share.
133 of 2,304 students who enrolled at Woodbridge High School this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (5.8% 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.
Low and stable absenteeism — students are engaged and showing up. The leading indicator is healthy.
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 — Irvine 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: 68.5%
Federal: 4.2%
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 Irvine 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).
On the peer median (45.4%) · Ranked #6 of 11 similar schools
18.5%
45.4%
53.3%
45.9%
Higher than 86% of California high schools (1105 ranked, ≥50 seniors)
Woodbridge High School's UC Reach of 45.9% 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%.
For context, the elite tier (top 1%) clears 102.7% — a gap of 57 pp from where this school sits.
Overall, Woodbridge High School's UC Reach is higher than 86% of California high schools (1105 ranked).
| Campus | Entered | Finished in 4 yrs | Finished in 6 yrs |
|---|---|---|---|
| UC Irvine | 35 | 80% | 91% |
| UC Riverside | 24 | 75% | 92% |
Woodbridge High School — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot
Public · Irvine · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools
- ▸On UC Reach, Woodbridge High School sits in the middle of its similar-school group (ranked #6 of 11): 46% vs. a peer median of 45%.
- ▸Its UC Reach has risen 4 points since 2018.
- ▸Senior-class enrollment is down 8% (610→559 from 2018 to 2026), trailing the peer-group median of -4%.
- ▸At its recent rate (-1.1%/yr), enrollment projects to ~2147 by 2029 — about 73 fewer students than today.
Enrollment projection
That's about 73 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Woodbridge High School | Public | 2220 | 45.9% | -8% |
| Peer-group median | 45.4% | -4% | ||
| University High | Public | 2365 | 67.3% | -15% |
| Northwood High School | Public | 2255 | 70.8% | -11% |
| Irvine High School | Public | 1903 | 43.0% | -14% |
| Segerstrom High School | Public | 2209 | 20.0% | -5% |
| Portola High School | Public | 2814 | 67.5% | +56% |
| Corona Del Mar High School | Public | 2117 | 47.8% | -14% |
| Santa Ana High School | Public | 2196 | 13.5% | -4% |
| Arnold O Beckman High School | Public | 2711 | 65.9% | +2% |
| Foothill High | Public | 2050 | 24.6% | +3% |
| Newport Harbor High School | Public | 2044 | 25.5% | +4% |
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 | 4.06 | 15.0% | 13.7% | +1.3pp | On target |
| UCLA | 4.03 | 9.4% | 9.4% | -0.0pp | On target |
| UC San Diego | 4.03 | 20.9% | 19.3% | +1.6pp | On target |
| UC Santa Barbara | 4.03 | 31.6% | 34.3% | -2.7pp | On target |
| UC Irvine | 4.02 | 26.2% | 27.2% | -1.0pp | On target |
| UC Davis | 4.01 | 30.1% | 33.0% | -2.9pp | On target |
Where Woodbridge High School sits vs. all California schools ⓘ
Overall, this school admits its UC applicants in line with what their GPAs predict (21.7% actual vs. 22.1% 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 | 173 | 26 | 13 | 15.0% | 4.8% | 50.0% | 4.06 | 4.23 |
| UCLA → Elite | 213 | 20 | 11 | 9.4% | 3.7% | 55.0% | 4.03 | 4.28 |
| UC San Diego → Selective | 220 | 46 | 10 | 20.9% | 8.5% | 21.7% | 4.03 | 4.28 |
| UC Santa Barbara → Selective | 171 | 54 | 7 | 31.6% | 10.0% | 13.0% | 4.03 | 4.27 |
| UC Irvine → Selective | 225 | 59 | 18 | 26.2% | 10.9% | 30.5% | 4.02 | 4.22 |
| UC Davis → | 143 | 43 | 3 | 30.1% | 8.0% | 7.0% | 4.01 | 4.22 |