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Bayside Academy

· San Mateo County · San Mateo-Foster City · Public

Public San Mateo County 🏛 San Mateo-Foster City → CDS 4169039…
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📋 At a glance

Programs & features
  • ✅ Gifted & talented program
Academic signals
  • 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 14% of US high schools

Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.

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How Bayside Academy compares for families

What families should know about Bayside Academy.

  • vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Design Tech High School, Half Moon Bay High School, Kipp Excelencia Community Preparatory and 2 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.

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SAT / ACT participation

CRDC federal data · 2020-21
SAT/ACT test-takers
0
11th-12th graders who took 1+ college admissions test

Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). Volume — not score — is what's reported here. A higher count means more students at this school are entering the college admissions pipeline. Note: 2020-21 was COVID-disrupted; some districts (especially those that stayed remote longer) report unusually low or zero takers.

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: total enrollment.

Chronic absent
23.8%
207 of 869 students

Absenteeism is up 15.5 pp since 2017-18. A rising absenteeism trend often precedes formal departure — worth investigating which subgroups are driving it.

San Mateo County median
20.3% · school is worse than 62% of 37 HS
Statewide median
20.9%
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
899 (2018)802 (2026)
-10.8%

If this trend holds (-1.5%/yr, Total enrollment)

At per-pupil funding of $ / student:

Horizon Projected Total enrollment Change Funding impact / yr
1 yr (2027) ~790 -12 $0
3 yr (2029) ~766 -36 $0
5 yr (2031) ~742 -60 $0

Straight-line extrapolation of the recent annual rate — a what-if, not a forecast of intent. Default = California's LCFF base grant for grades 9–12 ($12,423/ADA). Edit the figure to match your school.

Bayside Academy — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot

Public · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools

  • At its recent rate (-1.4%/yr), enrollment projects to ~768 by 2029 — about 34 fewer students than today.

Enrollment projection

802 students (2026)
~768 projected (2029)
at -1.4%/yr

That's about 34 fewer students. At per-student funding of $ per student, that's roughly $0 in annual state funding at risk.

Default = California's LCFF base grant for grades 9–12 ($12,423 per ADA) — adjust to your district's actual per-pupil 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
Bayside Academy Public 802
Peer-group median 33.0% -11%
Design Tech High School Public 563 69.6% +2%
Half Moon Bay High School Public 834 29.6% -6%
Kipp Excelencia Community Preparatory Public 704
Terra Nova High School Public 713 10.1% -36%
Mills High School Public 1120 59.3% -16%
Capuchino High School Public 1086 14.2% -1%
North Star Academy Public 553
Impact Academy Of Arts & Technology Public 688 -35%
Kipp King Collegiate High Sch Public 671 57.6% +40%
San Mateo High School Public 1532 33.0% -17%

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. Methodology →

Enrollment stability & demand — 2024-25

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

Stability rate
92.3%
813 of 881 students

68 of 881 students who enrolled at Bayside Academy this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (7.7% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.

San Mateo County median
92.9% · school is in the 46th percentile of 37 HS
Statewide median
88.7% · in the 72nd percentile of 2,648 HS

Stability by student group

Hispanic / Latino (481) 90.0%
Socio. disadvantaged (449) 90.4%
English learners (292) 89.0%
Asian (153) 96.7%
Students w/ disabilities (105) 95.2%
White (74) 95.9%

Nearest peer high schools

Design Tech High School 97.4% Half Moon Bay High School 94.8% Kipp Excelencia Community Preparatory 93.2% Terra Nova High School 93.3% Mills High School 96.5%

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.

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