Where Stanislaus County's high school grads get into the UC system

This table, in plain English

What it measures: for each Stanislaus County high school, how many admissions its graduating class earned to the six most selective UC campuses (Berkeley, UCLA, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Irvine, Davis), per 100 seniors. Higher score = the class graduated with more UC options on the table. It comes straight from the University of California's own school-by-school admissions counts.

How to read one row: James C. Enochs High School's 26 means its seniors earned 26 selective-UC admissions for every 100 students in the class. For scale, the median California high school scores about 18; the median Stanislaus County school scores 12.

The story in one sentence: Stanislaus has the lowest ceiling of any county in this series — its best school scores 26, below the point where most counties' top ten even begins — and Modesto accounts for eight of its top twenty schools.

One honest caution: the Reach Score is not an admit rate. A student admitted to three UC campuses counts three times — it measures the breadth of options a class earned, which is why an exceptional school can score above 100. The full definition is below the table.

5 takeaways

1. The county's top score is 26. James C. Enochs in Modesto leads. In Santa Clara, 26 would not reach the top thirty; in Los Angeles it would fall outside the top forty. No Stanislaus school clears 50.
2. Modesto is the county. Eight of the top twenty are Modesto schools — Enochs (26), Gregori (21), Modesto High (13), Beyer (12), Davis (12), Johansen (9), Downey (9) and Central Catholic (14), the county's only private entry in the top ten.
3. Conversion rates hold up where scores do not. Oakdale converts 40% of its applications, Ceres 36%, Thomas Downey 35% and Gregori 35% — rates that match or beat almost every Bay Area school in this series. Stanislaus students apply to far fewer campuses.
4. Enochs carries the volume too. 477 UC applications, the county's largest load, from 591 seniors — about 0.8 applications per senior, against 4.4 at Santa Clara's Monta Vista.
5. The bottom of the table is very thin. Denair (3) and Waterford (2) round out the county. The gap between the county's first and last reporting school is smaller than the gap between first and tenth in most coastal counties.

How to read the Reach Score: admissions to the six most selective UC campuses (Berkeley, UCLA, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Irvine, Davis) per 100 graduating seniors. A student admitted to several campuses counts at each — which is why an exceptional school can score above 100. It measures the breadth of a class's UC options, not an admit rate.

Coverage: the top 20 Stanislaus County schools with published 2025 UC outcomes and at least 50 seniors. Schools whose data failed integrity checks are excluded, as are schools that filed UC applications but recorded no admissions. School-level admit counts include all admits (UC publishes no breakout of recruited athletes or other categories). Source: University of California Office of the President, freshman application/admission counts by school, Fall 2025; enrollment from CDE / Private School Affidavit. See the full methodology.