Wonderful College Prep Academy - Lost Hills

Lost Hills · Kern County · Kern County Office of Education · Public

Public Kern County Kern County Office of Education → ~22 seniors CDS 1510157…

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Top 25% ELA · SBAC (CA)

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Almost all graduates leave eligible for UC and CSU. 100% finish the A-G courses California's universities require before a student can even apply — most California schools manage about 6 in 10.
About 3 in 4 students read and write at grade level. On the state's own 11th-grade test, 73% met or exceeded the college-readiness bar — the top quarter of California high schools (statewide: 54%).
One question for any counselor: who should still test? Plenty of strong students skip the SAT/ACT now — but merit scholarships at dozens of colleges still key off scores. Ask how the school decides who should still sit for one.

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How Wonderful College Prep Academy - Lost Hills compares for families

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SBAC academic outcomes — grade 11, 2025

Share of grade-11 students meeting or exceeding the California standard on Smarter Balanced ELA and Math. This is the academic-readiness signal that pairs with UC Reach (post-grad outcomes), stability (retention), and absenteeism (engagement). Note: statewide median Math is only ~20% — a school at 20% isn't an outlier; one at 45%+ genuinely is.

About 3 in 4 students read and write at grade level — the top quarter of California high schools.

About 1 in 10 students do math at grade level — about the state norm.

ELA — met or exceeded

n = 30

73.3%

incl. 13.3% exceeded

+21.6 pts above Kern County median (51.7%) · CA median 54.5% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 79.4%

Math — met or exceeded

n = 30

16.7%

incl. 3.3% exceeded

+3.8 pts above Kern County median (12.9%) · CA median 21.4% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 53.6%

Source: California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP) Smarter Balanced research files. Benchmarks limited to non-virtual public & charter HS with ≥30 tested students.

Student composition — 2025-26

HS grades 9–12 racial/ethnic composition and program subgroups, from CDE Census Day Enrollment. Two-year shift shown when ≥1 pt — surfaces how the community served has changed since 2023-24.

Race / ethnicity

Hispanic / Latino 99%

White 1%

Asian 1%

Program subgroups

Socioeconomically disadv. 90% +33.8

English learners 20% +7.7

Source: California Department of Education, Census Day Enrollment 2025-26 (HS grades 9–12). Δ shown when shift is ≥1 pt since 2023-24. Categories below 0.5% omitted.

Chronic absenteeism — 2024-25

Share of students missing 10% or more of expected attendance — the leading indicator that often precedes the demand decline shown above. Families disengaging tend to raise absenteeism first, then formally leave. Basis: grades 9–12.

Kids show up: 16% are chronically absent versus about 23% statewide — engagement most schools would envy.

Chronic absent

15.8%

25 of 158 students

Absenteeism is down 17.5 pp since 2020-21. Engagement improving — a positive trajectory worth understanding and reinforcing.

Kern County median

19.6% · school is better than 70% of 47 HS

Statewide median

22.8%

Chronic absenteeism by year (raw %)

Source: California Department of Education, Chronic Absenteeism 2024-25. Benchmarks limited to non-virtual public & charter HS with ≥100 eligible students. CDE didn't publish a usable 2019-20 file (COVID).

Enrollment trend & projection

Total enrollment (9–12)

102 (2018) → 540 (2026)

+429.4%

Grade 12 (graduating class)

22 (2024) → 29 (2026)

+31.8%

How does Wonderful College Prep Academy - Lost Hills really compare on getting kids to college?

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Enrollment stability & demand — 2024-25

Two complementary signals: retention (do students stay once enrolled?) and demand (are families choosing the school?). Read against the Kern County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.

92% of students who start the year here finish it here.

Healthy

Best in class — winning on demand and retention.

Wonderful College Prep Academy - Lost Hills outperformed Kern County on enrollment (school +31.8% vs. county -2.7%) AND maintains 92.1% stability. Replicable model — worth documenting what's working.

+31.8% senior class, grade 12 (2024–2026)

-2.7% Kern County baseline

+34.5pp gap vs. county

92.1% retention (county median 84.4%)

Senior class (grade 12) — indexed to 100 at 2024

Stability rate by year (raw %)

Stability rate

92.1%

151 of 164 students

13 of 164 students who enrolled at Wonderful College Prep Academy - Lost Hills this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (7.9% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.

Kern County median

84.4% · school is in the 94th percentile of 47 HS

Statewide median

87.3% · in the 76th percentile of 1,734 HS

Stability by student group

Hispanic / Latino (551) 91.1%

Socio. disadvantaged (496) 93.8%

English learners (240) 89.2%

Students w/ disabilities (66) 93.9%

Nearest peer high schools

McFarland High School 91.7% Kern Workforce 2000 Academy 35.6% Vista West Continuation High 36.9% Wasco Union High School 84.0% Avenal High School 86.7%

Source: California Department of Education, Stability Rate 2024-25. Benchmarks limited to non-virtual public & charter HS with ≥100 cumulative enrollees so by-design-high-churn continuation schools don't dominate the bottom of the distribution. Cumulative enrollment counts every student on the rolls during the year, so it can exceed peak-day enrollment.

District financial profile — Kern County Office of Education (FY2020)

From 4 years of NCES F-33 filings (the federally-mandated district finance survey). Public schools don't have their own books — the district does. These figures show the financial scale, revenue dependence, instruction-vs-overhead mix, and long-term debt that shape what a school can sustain.

Total revenue

$360.6M

+14.8% since FY2017

Per-pupil revenue

$162,270

2,222 students enrolled

Revenue mix

State: 44.3%
Local: 33.7%
Federal: 22.1%

Instruction share

26.2%

of current spending · $21,903/pupil

Total revenue by year ($M)

Total expenditure by year ($M)

Source: NCES F-33 Annual Survey of School System Finances (Urban Institute Education Data API). Latest year currently published: FY2020. F-33 is a district-level federal filing — it reflects the Kern County Office of Education as a whole, not this individual school's books. Revenue mix shows where the district's dollars come from (state aid dominates in CA via LCFF). Instruction share is current expenditure on instruction ÷ total current expenditure (national benchmark ~60%). Long-term debt is end-of-year outstanding (mostly facilities bonds).

UC Reach Score ⓘ methodology

UC Application Reach Score ⓘ

10 applications

In context: CA median 80 · Top 10% statewide ≥ 238 · Kern Co. Top 10% ≥ 98 · higher than 23% of CA HS.

UC Admit Rate ⓘ

N/A

— / 10 applications

UC Yield Rate ⓘ

N/A

— enrolled of — admitted

Yield vs. Enrollment Reach: Yield answers "of UC admits, what % chose UC?" — denominator is just the admits. A small admitted cohort can post a low yield even when the school sends a healthy share of its class to UC.

UC Enrollment Reach Score ⓘ

N/A

— enrollees / 22 seniors

Enrollment Reach vs. Yield: Reach answers "of the whole senior class, what share ended up at UC?" — denominator is everyone. High Yield with low Enrollment Reach is common at elite privates: most admits matriculate, but the school sends most of its class to non-UC selective colleges.

A-G Completion ⓘ

Most graduates leave here ready to apply to UC and CSU — almost all finish the required courses, versus about 6 in 10 statewide.

100%

34 of 34 graduates · 2024-25 cohort

In context: CA median 55.9% · +44.1 pp above · Kern Co. 39.4%.

Selective UC Reach (UCB, UCLA, UCSD, UCSB, UCI — incl. the Elite two) ⓘ

N/A

Elite UC Reach (UCB + UCLA) ⓘ

N/A

Senior Class Size ⓘ

CDE grade 12 (exact)

Total School Enrollment ⓘ

538

All grades · CDE Census Day

Campus Breakdown — 2024

Campus	Applicants	Admits	Enrollees	Admit Rate	UC Reach Score	Yield	Avg GPA (App)	Avg GPA (Adm)
UC Berkeley → Elite	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
UCLA → Elite	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
UC San Diego → Selective	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
UC Santa Barbara → Selective	5	—^†	—^†	—^†	—^†	—	—	—^†
UC Irvine → Selective	5	—^†	—^†	—^†	—^†	—	—	—^†
UC Davis →	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—

† = UCOP-suppressed (count below 3 students, hidden for privacy — actual value is 0, 1, or 2, not necessarily zero). Campus-level totals may count one student admitted to multiple UC campuses more than once; Admit Volume metrics are not the same as UC Reach, which is measured against the whole senior class. See methodology →

What This Means

A large share of the senior class applies to UC, indicating strong college-going culture and UC pipeline development.

Note: the UC Reach Score sums campus-level admits across the top-six UC campuses, so a student admitted to both UCLA and UCSD is counted at each. It reflects competitive admit volume relative to class size — admit-events, not distinct students — which is why a Score can exceed 100.

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Wonderful College Prep Academy - Lost Hills is a public high school in Lost Hills, Kern County, California with 22 seniors in the Class of 2024.

100% of its graduates completed the A-G courses required for UC and CSU eligibility (California median 56%).

Enrollment was 540 students in 2026, up 429% since 2018.

Sources: University of California Office of the President (admissions), California Department of Education (enrollment, A-G, college-going), and the school's own published documents where named.

Questions families ask

What percentage of Wonderful College Prep Academy - Lost Hills graduates complete the A-G requirements? 100% of its graduates completed the A-G courses required for UC and CSU eligibility (California median 56%).

How many students attend Wonderful College Prep Academy - Lost Hills? Enrollment was 540 students in 2026, up 429% since 2018.

Analysis: Test Prep Gurus (High School Reach, highschoolreach.com). These figures may be quoted with attribution to Test Prep Gurus.

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