Mount Madonna School
Watsonville · Santa Cruz County · Private independent
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UC admits by campus · Class of 2024
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Where the Class of 2024 enrolled
Mount Madonna School publishes where its graduates enrolled. What follows is copied from that document — 15 colleges, in the document's own order.
These graduates went on to the colleges above.
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Independently verified As published by Mount Madonna School — Class of 2024: Valedictorian, Salutatorians and Seniors' College Choices (school news post) ↗. Found at: body text naming each of the 16 Class of 2024 graduates and the college they will attend.
No SBAC data for private schools — and that's not the metric you want anyway
California's Smarter Balanced (CAASPP) assessment is administered by the state, by statute, to public & charter schools only. Private schools don't sit for it. That's why the SBAC card is missing on this profile — not a data gap on our side, a deliberate scope of the state's testing program.
For private schools, UC Reach is the stronger academic signal anyway. SBAC measures grade-11 inputs (proficiency on a state standard); UC Reach measures outputs (who actually got into the most selective UCs). For private-school families weighing tuition against college outcomes, the outputs are the relevant signal.
This school doesn't have UC outcomes data on file yet — we surface UCOP-published admits by sending HS, and not every private school appears in those records. The enrollment trend, stability, and other cards on this page are still primary-sourced for this school.
Enrollment trend & projection
If this trend holds (-2.5%/yr, Total enrollment)
At tuition of $ / student:
| Horizon | Projected Total enrollment | Change | Tuition impact / yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 yr (2026) | ~133 | -3 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2028) | ~126 | -10 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2030) | ~120 | -16 | $0 |
Straight-line extrapolation of the recent annual rate — a what-if, not a forecast of intent. Default = derived from this school's IRS Form 990 (FY2023) — program-service revenue ÷ enrollment. Edit the figure to match your school.
How does Mount Madonna School really compare on getting kids to college?
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Financial profile — IRS Form 990, FY2023
From 13 years of Form 990 filings via ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer (free public IRS data). The school's tax filings show financial scale, fundraising health, and endowment trajectory — signals that drive board-level conversations about tuition pricing, financial-aid capacity, and capital projects.
Source: IRS Form 990 via ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer (EIN 342059662). Tuition-per-student is total program-service revenue divided by latest enrollment — a rough average that includes auxiliary revenue (athletics, food service, etc.); the actual published tuition can differ. Form 990 is filed annually under penalty of perjury, so the financial scale figures are authoritative.
Private-school figures come from the California Private School Affidavit. Per CDE, inclusion in private-school data is not an evaluation, approval, or endorsement of a school.
UC Outcomes Trend — 2018–2024
Class size from CDE grade 12 enrollment. Campus-level data: applicant and admit totals count a student once at EACH campus. A senior admitted to UCLA and UC San Diego adds 2 to the admit total, so the total can exceed the senior class — that is the metric working as defined, not an error. The admit RATE is unaffected: both its numerator and denominator are campus-level.
Campus Breakdown — 2024
| Campus | Applicants | Admits | Enrollees | Admit Rate | UC Reach Score | Yield | Avg GPA (App) | Avg GPA (Adm) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UC Berkeley → Elite | 7 | —† | —† | —† | —† | — | 4.09 | —† |
| UCLA → Elite | 8 | —† | —† | —† | —† | — | 3.97 | —† |
| UC San Diego → Selective | 8 | —† | —† | —† | —† | — | 3.93 | —† |
| UC Santa Barbara → Selective | 12 | —† | —† | —† | —† | — | 3.98 | —† |
| UC Irvine → Selective | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| UC Davis → | 8 | 4 | —† | 50.0% | — | — | 3.98 | —† |
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