Archer School for Girls
Los Angeles · Los Angeles County · Private independent
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- 📚 20 AP courses offered (school profile)
- 🏆 8 National Merit Semifinalists last year
- 📝 SAT avg 1430 (25-75: 1370–1490)
- 📝 ACT avg 32.0 (25-75: 30–34)
- 📚 AP exam pass rate 88.0% (avg score 4.2)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, the school's own published profile, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
🎓 Where grads go
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.
How Archer School for Girls compares for families
Top-tier college outcomes for California families.
- ▸ NationallySAT mean 1430 (≈ top 4% of US test-takers) · ACT mean 32.0 (≈ top 4%) · 88% AP pass rate (US average: ~60%) · 8 National Merit Semifinalists last year (NMSF is the top 1% of US PSAT scorers).
- ▸ Statewide45.1% UC Reach — 27.0 points above the California median of 18.1%. Ahead of 87% of California high schools.
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsTrails the peer median (45.1% UC Reach vs 59.3% median) across the 5 most similar nearby schools.
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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.
Scroll up to the UC Reach card for Archer School for Girls's 2025 number, statewide percentile, and 5-year trend.
Enrollment trend & projection
If this trend holds (-0.4%/yr, Total enrollment)
At tuition of $ / student:
| Horizon | Projected Total enrollment | Change | Tuition impact / yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 yr (2026) | ~482 | -2 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2028) | ~479 | -5 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2030) | ~475 | -9 | $0 |
Straight-line extrapolation of the recent annual rate — a what-if, not a forecast of intent. Edit the figure to match your school.
Archer School for Girls — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot
Private · secular · Los Angeles · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools
- ▸On UC Reach, Archer School for Girls sits in the middle of its similar-school group (ranked #8 of 11): 45% vs. a peer median of 59%.
- ▸Archer School for Girls's UC Reach has declined meaningfully from a peak of 65% in 2023 to 45% in 2025 — a 20-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 10% (79→71 from 2020 to 2025), trailing the peer-group median of +19%.
- ▸At its recent rate (-0.1%/yr), enrollment projects to ~483 by 2028 — about 1 fewer students than today.
Enrollment projection
That's about 1 fewer students. At a tuition of $ per student, that's roughly $0 in annual tuition revenue at risk.
Default derived from this school's own IRS Form 990 (FY2023): program-service revenue ÷ enrollment, rounded to the nearest $1k — an authoritative average that includes auxiliary revenue (athletics, food service). Your published tuition may differ; adjust if needed. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Archer School for Girls | Private · secular | 484 | 45.1% | -10% |
| Peer-group median | 59.3% | +19% | ||
| New Roads School | Private · secular | 545 | 64.6% | +4% |
| Geffen Academy at UCLA | Private · secular | 589 | 121.1% | +21% |
| Windward School | Private · secular | 625 | 77.4% | +8% |
| Marlborough School | Private · secular | 546 | 64.0% | +29% |
| Wildwood School | Private · secular | 726 | 37.7% | +35% |
| Buckley School | Private · secular | 829 | 52.9% | +30% |
| Crespi Carmelite High School | Private · Catholic | 428 | 60.8% | -16% |
| Pilgrim School | Private · secular | 320 | 27.8% | +90% |
| Saint Monica Catholic Hs | Private · Catholic | 367 | 57.8% | +17% |
| Cathedral High School | Private · Other religious | 583 | 13.7% | -20% |
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 →
Financial profile — IRS Form 990, FY2023
From 12 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 954463705). View latest 990 PDF → 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.
Archer School for Girls sent 159 applications to the six most selective University of California campuses and 20.1% were admitted, producing a UC Reach of 45.1% — 27.0 percentage points above the California median of 18.1%, higher than 87% of California high schools. The school produces 14.1 UCLA + UC Berkeley admits per 100 seniors.
-14.2 pp vs. peer median (59.3%) · Ranked #8 of 11 similar schools
18.1%
59.3%
51.2%
45.1%
Higher than 87% of California high schools (978 ranked, ≥50 seniors)
Archer School for Girls's UC Reach of 45.1% is in the top quartile statewide (median 18.1%; top 25% bar 30.5%) — but it's still below the top-10% bar of 51.2%.
For context, the elite tier (top 1%) clears 97.3% — a gap of 52 pp from where this school sits.
Overall, Archer School for Girls's UC Reach is higher than 87% of California high schools (978 ranked).
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 Berkeley | Real shot | Long odds | Filtered out | Filtered out |
| UCLA | Real shot | Long odds | Filtered out | Filtered out |
| UC San Diego | Strong shot | Real shot | Long odds | Filtered out |
| UC Santa Barbara | Strong shot | Moderate | 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 Berkeley | 4.06 | 4.27 | +0.21 | 19.4% | Peers +0.20 · matches |
| UCLA | 4.03 | 4.18 | +0.15 | 16.7% | Peers +0.24 · wider |
| UC San Diego (2023) | 4.18 | 4.31 | +0.13 | 20.0% | Peers +0.14 · matches |
| UC Santa Barbara | 4.06 | 4.30 | +0.24 | 19.4% | Peers +0.22 · matches |
| UC Davis | 4.08 | 4.19 | +0.12 | 38.9% | Peers +0.17 · 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% |
Where Archer School for Girls sits vs. all California schools ⓘ
Overall, this school admits its UC applicants in line with what their GPAs predict (21.8% actual vs. 22.1% expected), based on 2024 data.
UC Outcomes Trend — 2018–2025
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 | 33 | 5 | 3 | 15.2% | 7.0% | 60.0% | 4.06 | 4.27 |
| UCLA → Elite | 33 | 5 | —† | 15.2% | 7.0% | — | 4.03 | 4.18 |
| UC San Diego → Selective | 29 | 7 | —† | 24.1% | 9.9% | — | 3.97 | —† |
| UC Santa Barbara → Selective | 31 | 8 | —† | 25.8% | 11.3% | — | 4.06 | 4.30 |
| UC Irvine → Selective | 17 | —† | —† | —† | —† | — | 3.96 | —† |
| UC Davis → | 16 | 7 | —† | 43.8% | 9.9% | — | 4.08 | 4.19 |