School Rankings
California high schools ranked by University of California admissions. Looking beyond California? All national rankings → — which high schools feed each college, Ivy+ enrollment, boarding schools, and college-going rate.
Rank California high schools by UC outcomes — statewide or within a county. Click any school to view its full profile.
Browse every California high school by county → — one page per county, every school listed with its city and UC Reach Score. Private only: best private high schools by metro →
Top 10 in Orange County — UC Reach Score
Orange County · 2025 · ≥50 seniorsThis board needs a class of 100+ seniors. Schools smaller than that are ranked on the small-schools board below — which is where California's highest UC Reach Score actually sits.
Small schools — Orange County · 2025
Ranked separately because they graduate 25–99 seniors — magnet programs, specialized charters and small privates. A class of 60 swings far more year to year than a class of 600, so mixing them into the boards above would compare unlike things. The state's single highest UC Reach Score sits on this board, not the one above it.
Leaderboards 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.
Top 25 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.
Combined campuses — Orange County · 2025
Admits to the chosen campuses, counted at each, as a share of each school's senior class — the same arithmetic as the UC Reach Score, on a subset of campuses. 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 -9.3% | +65.0pp | |
| +46.1% vs -9.3% | +55.4pp | |
| +34.7% vs -11.7% | +46.4pp | |
| +20.2% vs -9.3% | +29.5pp | |
| +20.5% vs -6.0% | +26.5pp | |
| +18.1% vs -6.0% | +24.2pp | |
| +15.4% vs -6.0% | +21.4pp | |
| +11.6% vs -6.0% | +17.7pp | |
| +10.0% vs -6.0% | +16.0pp | |
| +8.0% vs -6.0% | +14.0pp |
▼ Underperforming the county the most
| School | School · County | Gap |
|---|---|---|
| -40.1% vs -6.0% | -34.1pp | |
| -30.7% vs -6.0% | -24.7pp | |
| -29.2% vs -6.0% | -23.2pp | |
| -25.7% vs -6.0% | -19.6pp | |
| -25.2% vs -6.0% | -19.2pp | |
| -24.4% vs -6.0% | -18.4pp | |
| -23.6% vs -6.0% | -17.6pp | |
| -22.8% vs -6.0% | -16.8pp | |
| -27.8% vs -11.7% | -16.1pp | |
| -21.0% vs -6.0% | -15.0pp |
GPA Performance — over/under their predicted UC admit rate ⓘ
71 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% | +13.7pp | |
| 3.85 | 35.4% | +11.0pp | |
| 3.91 | 29.6% | +10.0pp | |
| 3.85 | 28.8% | +8.4pp | |
| 3.75 | 27.9% | +8.1pp | |
| 3.99 | 28.7% | +7.9pp | |
| 3.82 | 26.7% | +7.5pp | |
| 4.07 | 29.6% | +7.4pp | |
| 3.81 | 26.7% | +7.3pp |
▼ Top 10 underperformers
| School | GPA | Actual | Δ vs exp. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.85 | 13.5% | -8.0pp | |
| 3.99 | 16.1% | -5.1pp | |
| 3.82 | 15.0% | -4.6pp | |
| 3.87 | 17.3% | -3.1pp | |
| 4.06 | 20.0% | -3.0pp | |
| 3.91 | 17.4% | -2.4pp | |
| 3.87 | 18.2% | -2.0pp | |
| 3.91 | 18.6% | -1.7pp | |
| 3.54 | 20.9% | -1.7pp | |
| 3.91 | 20.1% | -0.8pp |
Full rankings — every Orange County high school by UC Reach Score
Sortable by any column. Click a column header to sort. Click any school row to open its profile.
Related reading
Orange County · League table · September 17, 2026
Behind the data · August 24, 2026
California counties · October 2026