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Brookhurst Junior High

· Orange County · Anaheim Union High · Public

Public Orange County 🏛 Anaheim Union High → CDS 3066431…
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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 Brookhurst Junior High compares for families

What families should know about Brookhurst Junior High.

  • vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Polaris High School, Ball Junior High, Orangeview Junior High 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
30.7%
231 of 753 students

Absenteeism is up 18.4 pp since 2016-17. A rising absenteeism trend often precedes formal departure — worth investigating which subgroups are driving it.

Orange County median
16.4% · school is worse than 84% of 143 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
1,063 (2018)690 (2026)
-35.1%

If this trend holds (-6.2%/yr, Total enrollment)

At per-pupil funding of $ / student:

Horizon Projected Total enrollment Change Funding impact / yr
1 yr (2027) ~647 -43 $0
3 yr (2029) ~569 -121 $0
5 yr (2031) ~500 -190 $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.

Brookhurst Junior High — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot

Public · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools

  • At its recent rate (-5.3%/yr), enrollment projects to ~587 by 2029 — about 103 fewer students than today.

Enrollment projection

690 students (2026)
~587 projected (2029)
at -5.3%/yr

That's about 103 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
Brookhurst Junior High Public 690
Peer-group median +687%
Polaris High School Public 727 +687%
Ball Junior High Public 714
Orangeview Junior High Public 617
Robert M. Pyles Stem Academy Public 602
Ladera Vista Junior High School Of The Arts Public 731
D. Russell Parks Junior High Public 793
Golden Hill School For Creative & Performing Arts Public 578
Dr. Albert Schweitzer Leadership Academy Public 524
Dale Junior High Public 902
Nicolas Junior High Public 514

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 Orange County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.

Stability rate
86.7%
672 of 775 students

103 of 775 students who enrolled at Brookhurst Junior High this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (13.3% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.

Orange County median
91.8% · school is in the 24th percentile of 144 HS
Statewide median
88.7% · in the 41st percentile of 2,648 HS

Stability by student group

Socio. disadvantaged (704) 86.9%
Hispanic / Latino (663) 87.5%
English learners (196) 84.7%
Students w/ disabilities (130) 82.3%
White (32) 84.4%
Asian (27) 85.2%

Nearest peer high schools

Polaris High School 53.8% Ball Junior High 85.5% Orangeview Junior High 85.0% Robert M. Pyles Stem Academy 87.0% Ladera Vista Junior High School Of The Arts 93.4%

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 — Anaheim Union High (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
$532.8M
+23.4% since FY2017
Per-pupil revenue
$18,257
29,183 students enrolled
Revenue mix
State: 57.8%
Local: 29.4%
Federal: 12.8%
Instruction share
62.2%
of current spending · $9,494/pupil
Long-term debt
$308.1M
+28.8% since FY2017
Total revenue by year ($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 Anaheim Union High 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).

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