Woodlake High School
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If this trend holds (+0.9%/yr, Total enrollment)
At per-pupil funding of $ / student:
| Horizon | Projected Total enrollment | Change | Funding impact / yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 yr (2027) | ~683 | +6 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2029) | ~695 | +18 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2031) | ~707 | +30 | $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 Tulare County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.
Woodlake High School is recruiting families faster than Tulare County is shrinking (school +20.8% vs. county +2.2%), but 110 students didn't make it to year-end. The recruitment engine works; the mid-year exits are worth understanding.
110 of 689 students who enrolled at Woodlake High School this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (16.0% 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 5.3 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 — Woodlake 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: 15.2%
Federal: 22.7%
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 Woodlake 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).
-6.8 pp vs. peer median (16.0%) · Ranked #5 of 7 similar schools
18.5%
53.3%
9.2%
Higher than 16% of California high schools (1105 ranked, ≥50 seniors)
Woodlake High School's UC Reach of 9.2% is below the California median (18.5%). The top 10% of CA schools achieve 53.3% or higher.
Overall, Woodlake High School's UC Reach is higher than 16% of California high schools (1105 ranked).
Woodlake High School — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot
Public · Woodlake · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools
- ▸On UC Reach, Woodlake High School sits in the middle of its similar-school group (ranked #5 of 7): 9% vs. a peer median of 16%.
- ▸Its UC Reach has risen 6 points since 2018.
- ▸Senior-class enrollment is up 21% (130→157 from 2018 to 2026), outpacing the peer-group median of -1%.
- ▸Enrollment has been growing (+0.9%/yr); projects to ~695 by 2029.
Enrollment projection
Your school vs. its 10 most similar nearby schools
| School | Type | Size | UC Reach | Enroll. trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Woodlake High School | Public | 677 | 9.2% | +21% |
| Peer-group median | 16.0% | -1% | ||
| Farmersville High School | Public | 678 | 13.8% | +0% |
| Visalia Charter Independent Study | Public | 551 | — | -15% |
| Exeter Union High School | Public | 916 | 7.1% | -3% |
| Valley Life Charter | Public | 720 | — | +300% |
| Crescent Valley Public Charter Ii | Public | 843 | — | +231% |
| Orange Cove High School | Public | 588 | 7.1% | -17% |
| Lindsay High School | Public | 1064 | 19.8% | +9% |
| Orosi High School | Public | 1125 | 18.1% | -4% |
| Harmony Magnet Academy | Public | 498 | 27.0% | -12% |
| Mt. Whitney High | Public | 1627 | — | +9% |
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 | 4.14 | 75.0% | 17.4% | +57.6pp | Over |
| UC Santa Barbara | 4.06 | 71.4% | 36.6% | +34.8pp | Over |
| UC Davis | 3.99 | 60.0% | 32.8% | +27.2pp | 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 | 8 | — | — | — | — | — | 4.06 | — |
| UCLA → Elite | 5 | — | — | — | — | — | 3.96 | — |
| UC San Diego → Selective | 8 | 6 | — | 75.0% | 3.9% | — | 4.14 | 4.24 |
| UC Santa Barbara → Selective | 7 | 5 | — | 71.4% | 3.3% | — | 4.06 | 4.18 |
| UC Davis → | 5 | 3 | — | 60.0% | 2.0% | — | 3.99 | — |