Yorba Linda High School
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If this trend holds (-0.6%/yr, Total enrollment)
At per-pupil funding of $ / student:
| Horizon | Projected Total enrollment | Change | Funding impact / yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 yr (2027) | ~1,695 | -11 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2029) | ~1,674 | -32 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2031) | ~1,653 | -53 | $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.
Yorba Linda High School's enrollment is tracking Orange County's baseline (-7.0% vs. -7.1%), and 95.3% stability is elite. The demographic tide is the headwind; you're holding your share.
78 of 1,668 students who enrolled at Yorba Linda High School this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (4.7% 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 9.0 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 — Placentia-Yorba Linda 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: 49.2%
Federal: 10.4%
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 Placentia-Yorba Linda 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).
+17.8 pp above peer median (20.8%) · Ranked #1 of 11 similar schools
18.5%
53.3%
38.6%
Higher than 81% of California high schools (1105 ranked, ≥50 seniors)
Yorba Linda High School's UC Reach of 38.6% 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 64 pp from where this school sits.
Overall, Yorba Linda High School's UC Reach is higher than 81% of California high schools (1105 ranked).
Yorba Linda High School — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot
Public · Yorba Linda · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools
- ▸On UC Reach, Yorba Linda High School sits near the top of its similar-school group (ranked #1 of 11): 39% vs. a peer median of 21%.
- ▸Its UC Reach has risen 14 points since 2018.
- ▸Senior-class enrollment is down 7% (470→437 from 2018 to 2026), tracking the peer-group median of -9%.
- ▸At its recent rate (-0.6%/yr), enrollment projects to ~1674 by 2029 — about 32 fewer students than today.
Enrollment projection
That's about 32 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yorba Linda High School | Public | 1706 | 38.6% | -7% |
| Peer-group median | 20.8% | -9% | ||
| Brea Olinda High School | Public | 1664 | 32.7% | -8% |
| Esperanza High School | Public | 1334 | 18.2% | -13% |
| Orange High School | Public | 1710 | 6.6% | +8% |
| El Dorado High School | Public | 2054 | 22.4% | +12% |
| El Modena High School | Public | 1756 | 11.6% | -9% |
| Sonora High School | Public | 1695 | 14.2% | -20% |
| Canyon High School | Public | 2241 | 28.8% | -1% |
| Villa Park High School | Public | 2049 | 20.6% | -14% |
| Fullerton Union High School | Public | 1921 | 20.9% | -13% |
| Valencia High School | Public | 2242 | 27.8% | -6% |
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 | 3.94 | 9.3% | 12.0% | -2.7pp | On target |
| UCLA | 3.93 | 7.8% | 9.0% | -1.2pp | On target |
| UC San Diego | 3.90 | 20.5% | 22.3% | -1.8pp | On target |
| UC Santa Barbara | 3.90 | 27.0% | 28.5% | -1.5pp | On target |
| UC Irvine | 3.88 | 19.4% | 22.2% | -2.8pp | On target |
| UC Davis | 3.89 | 38.8% | 32.2% | +6.6pp | Over |
Where Yorba Linda High School sits vs. all California schools ⓘ
Overall, this school admits its UC applicants in line with what their GPAs predict (20.1% actual vs. 20.9% 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 | 86 | 8 | 3 | 9.3% | 2.4% | 37.5% | 3.94 | 4.21 |
| UCLA → Elite | 115 | 9 | 8 | 7.8% | 2.7% | 88.9% | 3.93 | 4.27 |
| UC San Diego → Selective | 117 | 24 | 6 | 20.5% | 7.2% | 25.0% | 3.90 | 4.18 |
| UC Santa Barbara → Selective | 111 | 30 | 3 | 27.0% | 9.0% | 10.0% | 3.90 | 4.25 |
| UC Irvine → Selective | 124 | 24 | 6 | 19.4% | 7.2% | 25.0% | 3.88 | 4.17 |
| UC Davis → | 85 | 33 | 4 | 38.8% | 9.9% | 12.1% | 3.89 | 4.13 |