School Rankings
Rank California high schools by UC outcomes — statewide or within a county. Click any school to view its full profile.
🏆 Top 10 in Orange County — UC Reach Score
Orange County · 2025 · ≥50 seniorsLeaderboards by type — Orange County (2025)
Top and bottom schools by UC Reach, split public/charter vs private (≥50 seniors). Scoped to Orange County — change the County filter above to rescope.
🎯 Specialized high schools — Orange County · 2025
Top UC Reach for schools with senior classes of 25–99. These are typically magnet programs, specialized charters, and small Catholic preps — too small to compare cleanly against comprehensive public high schools, but the most UC-effective small schools in California are here.
Top 10 by individual UC campus — Orange County · 2025
Where each UC campus lands its admits, as a share of each high school's senior class. Same 50-senior floor.
Beyond UC Reach — more lenses on Orange County
UC Reach measures who gets in. These lenses measure the upstream pipeline (A-G), the downstream outcome (UC graduation), the capacity that drives the pipeline (counselors), reliability over time (consistency), grade-11 academic preparation (CAASPP SBAC ELA & Math), and private-school financial strength. Click any school for its full profile.
Reach momentum — biggest gains & declines over time ⓘ
≥50 seniors · earliest→latest yearWhich schools are moving a growing — or shrinking — share of their graduating class into the six most selective UCs. Reflects the current county/type filter.
▲ Biggest gains
| School | Then → Now | Δ |
|---|---|---|
| 121 '20 → 151 '25 | +29.8pp | |
| 15 '18 → 40 '25 | +25.2pp | |
| 31 '18 → 47 '25 | +16.3pp | |
| 38 '18 → 53 '25 | +15.7pp | |
| 25 '18 → 39 '25 | +13.4pp | |
| 83 '20 → 96 '25 | +12.8pp | |
| 22 '18 → 34 '25 | +12.2pp | |
| 28 '18 → 40 '25 | +12.2pp | |
| 21 '18 → 33 '25 | +11.9pp | |
| 55 '18 → 66 '25 | +11.0pp |
▼ Biggest declines
| School | Then → Now | Δ |
|---|---|---|
| 110 '18 → 84 '25 | -26.3pp | |
| 90 '20 → 68 '25 | -22.4pp | |
| 52 '20 → 37 '25 | -15.2pp | |
| 87 '20 → 72 '25 | -14.2pp | |
| 46 '20 → 33 '25 | -13.0pp | |
| 36 '20 → 25 '25 | -11.5pp | |
| 29 '18 → 19 '25 | -10.3pp | |
| 34 '18 → 25 '25 | -9.2pp | |
| 37 '18 → 29 '25 | -8.2pp | |
| 44 '20 → 37 '25 | -7.0pp |
Demand momentum — biggest gaps vs the county baseline ⓘ
grade-12 enrollment Δ vs. county · ≥80 studentsThe demographic tide is shrinking CA enrollment ~10% over 7 years statewide, so absolute decline alone is noise. The gap vs the county baseline is the actionable signal — schools losing share faster than their demographic floor are the ones to watch. Reflects the current county/type filter.
▲ Outperforming the county the most
| School | School · County | Gap |
|---|---|---|
| +55.8% vs -10.2% | +66.0pp | |
| +46.1% vs -10.2% | +56.3pp | |
| +34.7% vs -11.4% | +46.1pp | |
| +20.5% vs -7.1% | +27.5pp | |
| +18.1% vs -7.1% | +25.2pp | |
| +15.4% vs -7.1% | +22.4pp | |
| +11.6% vs -7.1% | +18.7pp | |
| +10.0% vs -7.1% | +17.1pp | |
| +8.0% vs -7.1% | +15.1pp | |
| +7.8% vs -7.1% | +14.9pp |
▼ Underperforming the county the most
| School | School · County | Gap |
|---|---|---|
| -40.1% vs -7.1% | -33.0pp | |
| -30.7% vs -7.1% | -23.7pp | |
| -29.2% vs -7.1% | -22.2pp | |
| -25.7% vs -7.1% | -18.6pp | |
| -25.2% vs -7.1% | -18.1pp | |
| -24.4% vs -7.1% | -17.3pp | |
| -23.6% vs -7.1% | -16.6pp | |
| -22.8% vs -7.1% | -15.8pp | |
| -21.0% vs -7.1% | -14.0pp | |
| -20.9% vs -7.1% | -13.8pp |
GPA Performance — over/under their predicted UC admit rate ⓘ
67 schools eligible · 2025Each dot is one school. The diagonal is the per-campus GPA expectation — points above it admit students at higher rates than their GPA mix predicts; points below admit at lower rates. Schools need ≥30 top-6 UC applications and data across ≥3 campuses to appear.
▲ Top 10 outperformers
| School | GPA | Actual | Δ vs exp. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.01 | 35.1% | +14.8pp | |
| 3.94 | 34.0% | +13.6pp | |
| 3.85 | 35.4% | +11.0pp | |
| 3.91 | 29.6% | +10.0pp | |
| 3.75 | 27.9% | +8.4pp | |
| 3.99 | 28.7% | +7.9pp | |
| 3.78 | 26.9% | +7.5pp | |
| 3.81 | 26.7% | +7.3pp | |
| 3.83 | 24.8% | +6.9pp | |
| 3.87 | 26.8% | +6.9pp |
▼ Top 10 underperformers
| School | GPA | Actual | Δ vs exp. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.85 | 13.5% | -7.9pp | |
| 3.99 | 16.1% | -5.1pp | |
| 3.82 | 15.0% | -4.6pp | |
| 3.87 | 17.3% | -3.1pp | |
| 4.06 | 20.0% | -2.9pp | |
| 3.91 | 17.4% | -2.4pp | |
| 3.87 | 18.2% | -2.0pp | |
| 3.91 | 18.6% | -1.7pp | |
| 3.54 | 20.9% | -1.0pp | |
| 3.91 | 20.1% | -0.8pp |
Full rankings — every Orange County high school by UC Reach Score
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