Animo Inglewood Charter High School

• ▸On UC Reach Score, Animo Inglewood Charter High School sits near the top of its similar-school group (ranked #2 of 10): 49 vs. a peer median of 23.
• ▸Its UC Reach Score has risen 30 points since 2018.
• ▸Across the top-6 UC campuses, Animo Inglewood Charter High School is admitting at roughly +5 percentage points above what its average applicant GPA (3.817) alone would predict (25% actual vs. 20% expected). That's a meaningful signal — it can reflect UC's track record with this school's graduates, students presenting strongly in UC's holistic review (essays, EC's, context), or institutional familiarity helping at the margin. The data can't distinguish which, but the pattern itself is real and worth understanding.
• ▸Senior-class enrollment is down 2% (149→146 from 2018 to 2026), trailing the peer-group median of +3%.
• ▸In business terms, this is market-share growth during a market contraction. Los Angeles County's senior population shrank 5% over the same window — Animo Inglewood Charter High School only shrank 2%. So Animo Inglewood Charter High School picked up about 3 percentage points of relative share — families chose it over the alternatives even as the overall pool got smaller. That's overperforming the market in a shrinking market.
• ▸At its recent rate (-0.7%/yr), enrollment projects to ~602 by 2029 — about 12 fewer students than today.

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UC Reach = top-6 UC admits ÷ senior class. Sources: UCOP Admissions by Source School, CDE enrollment, IRS Form 990, NCES F-33. Reach — by Test Prep Gurus · Methodology

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