Dunn School
Los Olivos · Santa Barbara County · Private independent
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🎓 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 Dunn School compares for families
Mid-pack college outcomes within California.
- ▸ Statewide22.6% UC Reach — right around the California median of 18.1%.
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsTrails the peer median (22.6% UC Reach vs 40.6% median) across the 5 most similar nearby schools.
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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 Dunn School's 2025 number, statewide percentile, and 5-year trend.
Enrollment trend & projection
If this trend holds (-4.0%/yr, Total enrollment)
At tuition of $ / student:
| Horizon | Projected Total enrollment | Change | Tuition impact / yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 yr (2026) | ~210 | -9 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2028) | ~194 | -25 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2030) | ~178 | -41 | $0 |
Straight-line extrapolation of the recent annual rate — a what-if, not a forecast of intent. Edit the figure to match your school.
Dunn School — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot
Private · secular · Los Olivos · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools
- ▸On UC Reach, Dunn School sits near the bottom of its similar-school group (ranked #8 of 8): 23% vs. a peer median of 41%.
- ▸Dunn School's UC Reach has declined meaningfully from a peak of 36% in 2020 to 23% in 2025 — a 13-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 26% (42→31 from 2020 to 2025), trailing the peer-group median of -1%.
- ▸At its recent rate (-3.7%/yr), enrollment projects to ~195 by 2028 — about 24 fewer students than today.
Enrollment projection
That's about 24 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dunn School | Private · secular | 219 | 22.6% | -26% |
| Peer-group median | 40.6% | -1% | ||
| Westmark School | Private · secular | 215 | — | +53% |
| Oak Grove School | Private · secular | 212 | — | +260% |
| Highland Hall Waldorf School | Private · secular | 210 | — | -40% |
| Thacher School the | Private · secular | 257 | 24.6% | +2% |
| Midland School | Private | 71 | 45.5% | +20% |
| Bishop Garcia Diego High Sch | Private · Catholic | 278 | 40.3% | +13% |
| Laguna Blanca School | Private · secular | 414 | 63.0% | -4% |
| Cate School | Private · secular | 306 | 50.7% | -3% |
| Ojai Valley School | Private · secular | 307 | 38.1% | -16% |
| Lycee Francais De Los Angeles | Private · secular | 153 | 40.6% | -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 951909237). 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.
Dunn School sent 31 applications to the six most selective University of California campuses and 22.6% were admitted, producing a UC Reach of 22.6% — 4.5 percentage points above the California median of 18.1%, higher than 62% of California high schools..
-18.0 pp vs. peer median (40.6%) · Ranked #8 of 8 similar schools
18.1%
40.6%
51.2%
22.6%
Higher than 62% of California high schools (978 ranked, ≥50 seniors)
Dunn School's UC Reach of 22.6% is above the California median (18.1%). The top 10% of CA schools achieve 51.2% or higher.
Against similar schools, Dunn School trails the peer-group median (40.6%) — even though it looks strong vs. the state average.
For context, the elite tier (top 1%) clears 97.3% — a gap of 75 pp from where this school sits.
Overall, Dunn School's UC Reach is higher than 62% 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 San Diego | Strong shot | Real shot | Long odds | Filtered out |
| UC Santa Barbara | Strong shot | Moderate | Long odds | Filtered out |
The numbers behind it
| Campus | Applicant GPA | Admit GPA | Lift ⓘ | Admit rate | vs peer schools @ same GPA ⓘ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UC San Diego (2020) | 3.94 | 4.12 | +0.18 | 50.0% | Peers +0.27 · wider |
| UC Santa Barbara (2020) | 3.96 | 4.12 | +0.16 | 45.5% | Peers +0.25 · 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% |
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 | 7 | —† | —† | —† | —† | — | 3.97 | —† |
| UCLA → Elite | 8 | —† | —† | —† | —† | — | 3.93 | —† |
| UC San Diego → Selective | 5 | 4 | —† | 80.0% | 12.9% | — | 3.69 | —† |
| UC Irvine → Selective | 6 | —† | —† | —† | —† | — | 3.85 | —† |
| UC Davis → | 5 | 3 | —† | 60.0% | 9.7% | — | — | —† |