Credo High School

Rohnert Park · Sonoma County · Cotati-Rohnert Park Unified · Public

Public Sonoma County 🏛 Cotati-Rohnert Park Unified → ~89 seniors CDS 4973882…

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Pathways Charter → Technology High School → Saint Helena High School → Elsie Allen High School → Ridgway High (continuation) → Compare all similar →

📘Top 25% ELA & Math · SBAC (CA) 🎯Top 5 Attendance (lowest chronic absenteeism) in Sonoma

📋 At a glance

Programs & features

Program details not reported to CRDC

Academic signals

Academic signals not yet ingested for this school

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

🎓 Where grads go

UC Reach Score

Around the CA median near the state median

Top-6 UC admits per 100 seniors in the Class of 2024 — counts each campus admit, so a student admitted to several UCs counts more than once (which is why a strong school can score over 100).

UC admits by campus · Class of 2024

UCSD

5 admitted

UCSB

4 admitted

UCD

10 admitted

7 enrolled

Source: University of California Office of the President, Admissions by Source School. Full campus-by-campus breakdown below.

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How Credo High School compares for families

Mid-pack college outcomes within California.

▸ Statewide21.3% UC Reach — right around the California median of 18.0%.
▸ Locally📘 Top 4 in Sonoma County on ELA proficiency — plus 3 more top-ranks.
▸ vs Similar SchoolsRight at the peer median (20.3% UC Reach) across the 5 most similar nearby schools.

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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 = 123

77.2%

incl. 48.8% exceeded

+25.0 pts above Sonoma County median (52.2%) · CA median 54.3% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 79.3%

Math — met or exceeded

n = 123

49.6%

incl. 24.4% exceeded

+26.0 pts above Sonoma County median (23.6%) · 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 60% -4.8

Hispanic / Latino 23% +5.4

Two or more 12% +1.4

Not reported 2% -1.1

Asian 1%

Program subgroups

Students w/ disabilities 42% +7.6

Socioeconomically disadv. 10% -2.9

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

13.8%

63 of 455 students

Absenteeism is up 3.4 pp since 2016-17. A rising absenteeism trend often precedes formal departure — worth investigating which subgroups are driving it.

Sonoma County median

24.4% · school is better than 89% of 18 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)

337 (2018) → 487 (2026)

+44.5%

Grade 12 (graduating class)

37 (2018) → 124 (2026)

+235.1%

If this trend holds (+3.4%/yr, Total enrollment)

At per-pupil funding of $ / student:

Horizon	Projected Total enrollment	Change	Funding impact / yr
1 yr (2027)	~504	+17	$0
3 yr (2029)	~539	+52	$0
5 yr (2031)	~577	+90	$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.

Credo High School — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot

Public · Rohnert Park · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools

▸On UC Reach Score, Credo High School sits in the middle of its similar-school group (ranked #4 of 8): 21 vs. a peer median of 20.
▸Across the top-6 UC campuses, Credo High School is admitting at roughly +5 percentage points above what its average applicant GPA (3.874) alone would predict (33% actual vs. 28% expected). That's a meaningful signal — it can reflect UC's track record with this school's graduates, students presenting strongly in UC's holistic review (essays, EC's, context), or institutional familiarity helping at the margin. The data can't distinguish which, but the pattern itself is real and worth understanding.
▸Senior-class enrollment is up 235% (37→124 from 2018 to 2026), outpacing the peer-group median of -3%.
▸Enrollment has been growing (+4.7%/yr); projects to ~559 by 2029.

Enrollment projection

487 students (2026)

→

~559 projected (2029)

at +4.7%/yr

Your school vs. its 10 most similar nearby schools

School	Type	Size	UC Reach Score	Enroll. trend
Credo High School	Public	487	21	+235%
Peer-group median			20	-3%
Pathways Charter	Public	379	—	-32%
Technology High School	Public	344	32	+10%
Saint Helena High School	Public	443	16	-2%
Elsie Allen High School	Public	930	5	-15%
Ridgway High (continuation)	Public	252	—	-4%
Healdsburg High School	Public	510	40	-20%
Petaluma High School	Public	1173	22	-14%
Calistoga Junior/Senior High	Public	345	20	+32%
Roseland Charter	Public	1181	—	+14%
New Technology High School	Public	378	10	+10%

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 Sonoma 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.

Credo High School is recruiting families faster than Sonoma County is shrinking (school +235.1% vs. county -0.1%), but 39 students didn't make it to year-end. The recruitment engine works; the mid-year exits are worth understanding.

+235.1% school enrollment (2018–2026)

-0.1% Sonoma County baseline

+235.2pp gap vs. county

91.6% retention (county median 91.9%)

Enrollment — indexed to 100 at 2018

Stability rate by year (raw %)

Stability rate

91.6%

425 of 464 students

39 of 464 students who enrolled at Credo High School this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (8.4% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.

Sonoma County median

91.9% · school is in the 47th percentile of 19 HS

Statewide median

87.2% · in the 74th percentile of 1,688 HS

Stability by student group

White (292) 93.8%

Socio. disadvantaged (148) 87.2%

Hispanic / Latino (100) 85.0%

Two or more races (57) 91.2%

Students w/ disabilities (50) 88.0%

Nearest peer high schools

Pathways Charter 64.4% Technology High School 96.8% Saint Helena High School 96.4% Elsie Allen High School 80.6% Ridgway High (continuation) 44.1%

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 — Cotati-Rohnert Park 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

$90.2M

+1.6% since FY2017

Per-pupil revenue

$15,783

5,717 students enrolled

Revenue mix

State: 36.0%
Local: 56.2%
Federal: 7.8%

Instruction share

54.7%

of current spending · $7,516/pupil

Long-term debt

$171.1M

+10.8% 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 Cotati-Rohnert Park 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).

📊 Key takeaway · Class of 2024

Credo High School sent 103 applications to the six most selective University of California campuses and 18.4% were admitted, producing a UC Reach Score of 21 — 3 points above the California median of 18, higher than 59% of California high schools..

University of California outcomes · Class of 2024

UC Reach Score ⓘ

Around the CA median Top 41% of CA high schools

19 admits / 89 seniors
On the peer median (20) · Ranked #4 of 8 similar schools

Where this sits on the California curve

CA median
18

Top 10%
49

This school
21

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CA median 18 Top 10% ≥ 49 This school 21

Higher than 59% of California high schools (978 ranked, ≥50 seniors)

📊 What this number means

Credo High School's UC Reach Score of 21 is above the California median (18). The top 10% of CA schools achieve 49 or higher.

For context, the elite tier (top 1%) clears 85 — a gap of 64 pp from where this school sits.

Overall, Credo High School's UC Reach is higher than 59% of California high schools (978 ranked).

UC Application Reach Score ⓘ

116

103 applications

Most seniors are applying to at least one of the six most selective UCs (applications counted at each campus).

In context: CA median 75 · Top 10% statewide ≥ 234 · higher than 69% of CA HS.

UC Admit Rate ⓘ

18.4%

19 / 103 applications

In context: CA median 26.6% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 39.9% · higher than 10% of CA HS.

UC Yield Rate ⓘ

36.8%

7 enrolled of 19 admitted

Yield vs. Enrollment Reach: Yield answers "of UC admits, what % chose UC?" — denominator is just the admits. A small admitted cohort can post a low yield even when the school sends a healthy share of its class to UC.

UC Enrollment Reach Score ⓘ

7 enrollees / 89 seniors

Enrollment Reach vs. Yield: Reach answers "of the whole senior class, what share ended up at UC?" — denominator is everyone. High Yield with low Enrollment Reach is common at elite privates: most admits matriculate, but the school sends most of its class to non-UC selective colleges.

A-G Completion ⓘ

97%

72 of 74 graduates · 2024-25 cohort

In context: CA median 55.9% · +41.4 pp above · Sonoma Co. 42.8%.

Selective UC Reach (UCSD, UCSB, UCI, UCD) ⓘ

10.1

per 100 seniors · campus-level total

In context: CA median 15.5 · Top 10% statewide ≥ 39.4 · higher than 26% of CA HS.

Elite UC Reach (UCB + UCLA) ⓘ

N/A

Senior Class Size ⓘ

CDE grade 12 (exact)

Total School Enrollment ⓘ

440

All grades · CDE Census Day

Avg. Applicant GPA · top-6 UCs ⓘ

3.87

Avg. Admitted GPA · top-6 UCs ⓘ

3.98

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.

🎯 Who's actually getting into UC from Credo High School

Campus	4.00+ GPA	3.70–3.99 GPA	3.30–3.69 GPA	< 3.30 GPA
UC San Diego	Strong shot	Real shot	Long odds	Filtered out
UC Davis	Strong shot	Real shot	Moderate	Filtered out

Strong shot = ≥30% statewide admit rate at this band · Real shot = 10–29% · Moderate = 5–9% · Long odds = 1–4% · Filtered out = under 1%. Tiers map this school's likely outcomes by GPA tier using statewide CA admit rates from UCOP 2024.

The numbers behind it

Campus	Applicant GPA	Admit GPA	Lift ⓘ	Admit rate	vs peer schools @ same GPA ⓘ
UC San Diego	3.89	4.00	+0.11	31.2%	Peers +0.30 · wider
UC Davis	3.87	3.98	+0.11	40.0%	Peers +0.27 · 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%

How we infer the tier labels: Each tier comes from the statewide CA admit rate at that GPA band at that UC. The "vs peers" column compares this school's lift (admit GPA − applicant GPA) to the average lift at ~100–300 other CA schools with similar applicant pool GPA. What this isn't: a guarantee. UC comprehensive review weighs essays, course rigor, demographics, and context-of-opportunity beyond GPA. A 3.9 with strong context can land an admit; a 4.0 with weak essays can be denied. Use as a baseline expectation, not a verdict. Per-campus year is shown when it differs from the headline year (UCOP doesn't always publish admit-GPA for every campus every year).

Where Credo High School sits vs. all California schools ⓘ

Overall, this school admits its UC applicants 5.3 points above what their GPAs predict (33.3% actual vs. 28.0% expected).

UC Outcomes Trend — 2019–2024

UC Admit Rate %

UC Reach Score (where available)

UC Admits (count, right axis)

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 — 2024

Campus	Applicants	Admits	Enrollees	Admit Rate	UC Reach Score	Yield	Avg GPA (App)	Avg GPA (Adm)
UC Berkeley → Elite	18	—^†	—^†	—^†	—^†	—	3.91	—^†
UCLA → Elite	16	—^†	—^†	—^†	—^†	—	3.82	—^†
UC San Diego → Selective	16	5	—^†	31.2%	6	—	3.89	4.00
UC Santa Barbara → Selective	16	4	—^†	25.0%	4	—	3.88	—^†
UC Irvine → Selective	12	—^†	—^†	—^†	—^†	—	3.89	—^†
UC Davis →	25	10	7	40.0%	11	70.0%	3.87	3.98

† = UCOP-suppressed (count below 3 students, hidden for privacy — actual value is 0, 1, or 2, not necessarily zero). Campus-level totals may count one student admitted to multiple UC campuses more than once; Admit Volume metrics are not the same as UC Reach, which requires unique-student counts. See methodology →

What This Means

A large share of the senior class applies to UC, indicating strong college-going culture and UC pipeline development.

A large share of the class applies to UC, so the admit rate runs lower than the application volume alone might suggest — expected when many students apply broadly, including to reach campuses. UC Reach (which credits every admit relative to the class) is the truer read of how the class fares: a strong Reach alongside a moderate admit rate is healthy, not a contradiction.

Students are earning UC admission but enrolling elsewhere at a notable rate. This may reflect competition from private colleges, out-of-state flagships, cost considerations, or UC campus fit. Student outcome surveys can clarify.

Note: the UC Reach Score sums campus-level admits across the top-six UC campuses, so a student admitted to both UCLA and UCSD is counted at each. It reflects competitive admit volume relative to class size — admit-events, not distinct students — which is why a Score can exceed 100.

Compare with other schools → See Sonoma County rankings →

For School Admins

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