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Coastal Academy Charter

· San Diego County · Oceanside Unified · Public

Public San Diego County 🏛 Oceanside Unified → CDS 3773569…
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📘Top 25% ELA & Math · SBAC (CA) 🎯Top 5% Attendance (lowest chronic absenteeism) in CA 🎯Top 5 Attendance (lowest chronic absenteeism) in San Diego

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

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How Coastal Academy Charter compares for families

What families should know about Coastal Academy Charter.

  • Locally🎯 Top 5% in California on Attendance (lowest chronic absenteeism) — plus 1 more top-rank.
  • vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: El Camino High School, Carlsbad High School, Rancho Buena Vista High School and 2 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.

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SBAC academic outcomes — grade 11, 2025

Share of grade-11 students meeting or exceeding the California standard on Smarter Balanced ELA and Math. This is the academic-readiness signal that pairs with UC Reach (post-grad outcomes), stability (retention), and absenteeism (engagement). Note: statewide median Math is only ~20% — a school at 20% isn't an outlier; one at 45%+ genuinely is.

ELA — met or exceeded
n = 163
68.1%
incl. 30.1% exceeded
+7.5 pts above San Diego County median (60.6%) · CA median 54.3% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 79.3%
Math — met or exceeded
n = 166
39.8%
incl. 13.2% exceeded
+15.4 pts above San Diego County median (24.4%) · CA median 21.1% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 53.6%

Source: California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP) Smarter Balanced research files. Benchmarks limited to non-virtual public & charter HS with ≥30 tested students.

Student composition — 2025-26

HS grades 9–12 racial/ethnic composition and program subgroups, from CDE Census Day Enrollment. Two-year shift shown when ≥1 pt — surfaces how the community served has changed since 2023-24.

Race / ethnicity

White 54% +1.1
Hispanic / Latino 33% +2.6
Two or more 8% -1.4
Filipino 2%
Asian 1%
Black / African Am. 1% -1.0
Not reported 1% -1.3

Program subgroups

Students w/ disabilities 32%
Socioeconomically disadv. 20%

Source: California Department of Education, Census Day Enrollment 2025-26 (HS grades 9–12). Δ shown when shift is ≥1 pt since 2023-24. Categories below 0.5% omitted.

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: grades 9–12.

Chronic absent
1.4%
11 of 794 students

Low and stable absenteeism — students are engaged and showing up. The leading indicator is healthy.

San Diego County median
18.9% · school is better than 97% of 117 HS
Statewide median
22.9%
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 (9–12)
1,914 (2018)2,120 (2026)
+10.8%
Grade 12 (graduating class)
30 (2018)179 (2026)
+496.7%

If this trend holds (+2.6%/yr, Total enrollment)

At per-pupil funding of $ / student:

Horizon Projected Total enrollment Change Funding impact / yr
1 yr (2027) ~2,176 +56 $0
3 yr (2029) ~2,292 +172 $0
5 yr (2031) ~2,415 +295 $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.

Coastal Academy Charter — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot

Public · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools

  • Senior-class enrollment is up 497% (30→179 from 2018 to 2026), outpacing the peer-group median of -9%.
  • Enrollment has been growing (+1.3%/yr); projects to ~2203 by 2029.

Enrollment projection

2120 students (2026)
~2203 projected (2029)
at +1.3%/yr

Your school vs. its 10 most similar nearby schools

School Type Size UC Reach Score Enroll. trend
Coastal Academy Charter Public 2120 +497%
Peer-group median 17 -9%
El Camino High School Public 2309 10 -20%
Carlsbad High School Public 2360 26 +2%
Rancho Buena Vista High School Public 1842 16 -24%
Oceanside High School Public 1903 13 -22%
Vista High School Public 1635 13 -25%
Mission Vista High School Public 1673 28 -2%
LA Costa Canyon High School Public 1841 19 +8%
Fallbrook High Public 1858 -5%
Guajome Park Academy Charter Public 1326 -13%
San Marcos High School Public 3039 24 +0%

UC Reach Score = 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 Diego County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.

Mixed signal
Outperforming on demand; some mid-year churn to look at.

Coastal Academy Charter is recruiting families faster than San Diego County is shrinking (school +496.7% vs. county -7.8%), but 82 students didn't make it to year-end. The recruitment engine works; the mid-year exits are worth understanding.

+496.7%  school enrollment (2018–2026)
-7.8%  San Diego County baseline
+504.5pp  gap vs. county
89.8%  retention (county median 88.5%)
Enrollment — indexed to 100 at 2018
Stability rate by year (raw %)
Stability rate
89.8%
723 of 805 students

82 of 805 students who enrolled at Coastal Academy Charter this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (10.2% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.

San Diego County median
88.5% · school is in the 59th percentile of 121 HS
Statewide median
87.2% · in the 64th percentile of 1,688 HS

Stability by student group

White (1,174) 91.7%
Socio. disadvantaged (681) 87.4%
Hispanic / Latino (561) 85.4%
Students w/ disabilities (391) 88.7%
Two or more races (256) 89.5%
Black / African Am. (38) 84.2%

Nearest peer high schools

El Camino High School 91.7% Carlsbad High School 94.1% Rancho Buena Vista High School 88.6% Oceanside High School 85.1% Vista High School 88.8%

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 — Oceanside Unified (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
$276.2M
+7.0% since FY2017
Per-pupil revenue
$16,868
16,373 students enrolled
Revenue mix
State: 47.3%
Local: 37.5%
Federal: 15.2%
Instruction share
58.8%
of current spending · $8,903/pupil
Long-term debt
$253.1M
-9.2% since FY2017
Total revenue by year ($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 Oceanside Unified 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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