# School City, state Students per class year Class year Source
1 Cardinal Newman High School Santa Rosa, CA 2.0
2 over 1 class year
Class of 2025 School's published list
2 Santa Margarita Catholic High School Rancho Santa Margarita, CA 2.0
2 over 1 class year
Class of 2025 School's published list
3 Loyola High School Los Angeles, CA 1.4
7 over 5 class years
2020-24 School's published list
4 Sage Hill School Newport Coast, CA 1.3
4 over 3 class years
2023-2025 School's published list
5 Palma High School Salinas, CA 1.0
1 over 1 class year
Class of 2025 School's published list
6 Sacramento Waldorf School Fair Oaks, CA 1.0
1 over 1 class year
Class of 2025 School's published list
7 Saint Joseph-Notre Dame High School Alameda, CA 1.0
1 over 1 class year
Class of 2026 School's published list
8 The International School of San Francisco San Francisco, CA 1.0
1 over 1 class year
Class of 2026 School's published list
9 La Jolla Country Day School La Jolla, CA 0.7
2 over 3 class years
2023-2025 School's published list
10 Athenian School Danville, CA 0.5
2 over 4 class years
In the past four years, (2023-2026) School's published list
11 Francis Parker School San Diego, CA 0.5
2 over 4 class years
2022-2025 School's published list
12 Menlo School Atherton, CA 0.3
1 over 3 class years
Classes of 2023-2025 School's published list
13 Santa Fe Preparatory School Santa Fe, NM 0.2
1 over 5 class years
2022-2026 School's published list
14 York School Monterey, CA 0.2
1 over 6 class years
Classes of 2021-2026 School's published list

All schools, public and private, and the lists of colleges that admitted each school's graduates, are on the California State University-Long Beach feeder leaderboard. More about the college: California State University-Long Beach.

Each count is copied from a list the school published about its own graduates: where they enrolled, one student at one college. The ranked figure is that count divided by the class years the school's list covers. A school that is not on this page did not publish a numbered matriculation list we could read — that is all absence means here. It is never a statement about a school's graduates. Lists of acceptances (where students were admitted, not where they enrolled) are never counted in this ranking: an acceptances list runs about three times an enrollment list, so counting the two together would compare different things. Those lists are ranked on their own, separately.