Aquinas International Academy
Garden Grove · Orange County · Private independent
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Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
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UC admits by campus · Class of 2025
Source: University of California Office of the President, Admissions by Source School. Full campus-by-campus breakdown below.
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What families should know about Aquinas International Academy.
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Acaciawood School, Rolling Hills Prep School, Cornelia Connelly School and 2 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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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 (-11.0%/yr, Total enrollment)
At tuition of $ / student:
| Horizon | Projected Total enrollment | Change | Tuition impact / yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 yr (2026) | ~129 | -16 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2028) | ~102 | -43 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2030) | ~81 | -64 | $0 |
Straight-line extrapolation of the recent annual rate — a what-if, not a forecast of intent. Edit the figure to match your school.
Aquinas International Academy — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot
Private · secular · Garden Grove · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools
- ▸On UC Reach, Aquinas International Academy sits near the bottom of its similar-school group (ranked #7 of 8): 12% vs. a peer median of 27%.
- ▸Aquinas International Academy's UC Reach has declined meaningfully from a peak of 34% in 2022 to 12% in 2023 — a 22-point drop that warrants attention. Multi-year UC Reach declines of this size often signal something specific (leadership change, comp-program shift, demographic move) rather than year-to-year noise. This is the kind of trajectory an Enrollment Trend Audit unpacks.
- ▸Senior-class enrollment is down 70% (67→20 from 2020 to 2025), trailing the peer-group median of -33%.
- ▸At its recent rate (-3.2%/yr), enrollment projects to ~131 by 2028 — about 14 fewer students than today.
Enrollment projection
That's about 14 fewer students. At a tuition of $ per student, that's roughly $0 in annual tuition revenue at risk.
Estimate seeded by nonsectarian private school typical — CA independent day schools typical $25k–55k. NCES doesn't publish per-school tuition; adjust to your school's actual figure. Projection extrapolates the recent annual rate — not a forecast of intent.
Your school vs. its 10 most similar nearby schools
| School | Type | Size | UC Reach | Enroll. trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aquinas International Academy | Private · secular | 145 | 12.0% | -70% |
| Peer-group median | 27.3% | -33% | ||
| Acaciawood School | Private · secular | 128 | — | +50% |
| Rolling Hills Prep School | Private · secular | 145 | 27.3% | -43% |
| Cornelia Connelly School | Private · Catholic | 124 | 41.9% | — |
| Eastside Christian High School | Private · Other religious | 120 | — | -22% |
| Arroyo Pacific Academy | Private · secular | 133 | 14.8% | -63% |
| Orangewood Academy | Private · Other religious | 107 | 11.1% | -78% |
| Ambassador High School | Private · Other religious | 148 | 38.5% | +53% |
| Veritas Classical Academy | Private · Other religious | 90 | — | -75% |
| Vistamar School | Private · secular | 222 | 35.3% | +2% |
| Brethren Christian High School | Private · Other religious | 98 | 14.7% | — |
UC Reach = top-6 UC admits ÷ senior class (can exceed 100% when students are admitted to multiple campuses). Enrollment trend = first-to-latest grade-12 change on file. Similar schools matched on proximity, size, type, and religious orientation. Methodology →
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.
GPA figures reflect 2024 — UC has not yet released applicant/admit GPA for 2025.
UC funnel — which kids are getting in at what GPA
Combining the school's applicant pool GPA, admit pool GPA, actual admit rate, and statewide CA admit rates by individual GPA band, we can read which GPA tiers tend to get in — and which don't.
| Campus | 4.00+ GPA | 3.70–3.99 GPA | 3.30–3.69 GPA | < 3.30 GPA |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UC Irvine | Strong shot | Real shot | Long odds | Filtered out |
| UC Davis | Strong shot | Real shot | Moderate | Filtered out |
The numbers behind it
| Campus | Applicant GPA | Admit GPA | Lift ⓘ | Admit rate | vs peer schools @ same GPA ⓘ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UC Irvine (2022) | 3.71 | 4.08 | +0.36 | 16.1% | Peers +0.40 · wider |
| UC Davis (2022) | 3.68 | 4.05 | +0.38 | 31.2% | Peers +0.43 · wider |
📊 Statewide CA admit rates by individual GPA band, 2024 (for reference)
| GPA band | UCB | UCLA | UCSD | UCSB | UCI | UCD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4.00+ | 17.1% | 14.4% | 43.5% | 57.3% | 46.0% | 64.1% |
| 3.70–3.99 | 2.8% | 1.5% | 11.2% | 9.2% | 16.5% | 27.5% |
| 3.30–3.69 | 0.8% | 0.9% | 1.4% | 2.3% | 3.4% | 9.1% |
| 3.00–3.29 | 0.5% | 0.4% | 0.1% | 0.5% | 0.4% | 2.1% |
| < 3.00 | 0.6% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.5% | 0.3% | 0.6% |
UC Outcomes Trend — 2021–2025
Class size from CDE grade 12 enrollment. Campus-level data — applicant/admit totals may count a student at multiple campuses more than once.
Campus Breakdown — 2025
| Campus | Applicants | Admits | Enrollees | Admit Rate | UC Reach | Yield | Avg GPA (App) '24 | Avg GPA (Adm) '24 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UC Berkeley → Elite | 145 | 3 | —† | 2.1% | — | — | 3.90 | —† |
| UCLA → Elite | 156 | —† | —† | —† | —† | — | 3.91 | —† |
| UC San Diego → Selective | 181 | —† | —† | —† | —† | — | 3.85 | 4.16 |
| UC Santa Barbara → Selective | 192 | 125 | 28 | 65.1% | — | 22.4% | 3.88 | 4.12 |
| UC Irvine → Selective | 201 | 20 | 4 | 10.0% | — | 20.0% | 3.86 | —† |
| UC Davis → | 198 | 114 | 20 | 57.6% | — | 17.5% | 3.86 | 4.05 |