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East Hills Academy

· San Diego County · Sweetwater Union High · Public

Public San Diego County 🏛 Sweetwater Union High → CDS 3768411…
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📋 At a glance

Programs & features
Academic signals
  • 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 6% of US high schools
  • 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 75% (Bottom 21% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)

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

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  • vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Options Secondary School, Monarch School, Alta Vista Academy 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
Test-taking intensity
0.0
takers per 100 students in grades 9-12

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.

🎓 4-year graduation rate · federal EDFacts

What % of students graduate on time?

Bottom 21% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate

50th 90th
4-year graduation rate
75%
Range: 50–100%
4-year cohort size
8
Students in the 9th-grade entry class tracked over 4 years
Compared against
17,988
US high schools reporting 4-year ACGR

Source: federal EDFacts ACGR (Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate), 2019 vintage via Urban Institute. EDFacts publishes a range (low-high) to preserve privacy on small cohorts; we display the midpoint.

🏛️ Federal Title I context

Title I Targeted Assistance eligible

35-39% FRPL — qualifies for Title I Targeted Assistance

35.2%
FRPL rate — % of students who qualify for the federal Free or Reduced-Price Lunch program. This is the underlying federal income-eligibility signal Title I designations are computed from (ESEA Sec. 1113).
0% (no FRPL) 35% TA · 40% Schoolwide 100% (universal FRPL)

35-39% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. The school can receive Title I funds targeted to identified students (not schoolwide).

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, free/reduced-price lunch eligibility. The actual Title I designation is a district decision and may differ from eligibility — but the federal eligibility math is what we show here. We don't claim to assert whether the district formally chose to enroll this school in Title I.

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

Hispanic / Latino 65% +2.4
White 16% -7.4
Filipino 7%
Asian 4%
Black / African Am. 4%
Two or more 4%
American Indian 2%

Program subgroups

Socioeconomically disadv. 79% +18.2
Students w/ disabilities 25%

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
45.6%
31 of 68 students

Absenteeism is up 35.3 pp since 2016-17. A rising absenteeism trend often precedes formal departure — worth investigating which subgroups are driving it.

San Diego County median
18.9% · school is worse than 87% 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)
80 (2018)64 (2026)
-20.0%
Grade 12 (graduating class)
37 (2018)34 (2026)
-8.1%

If this trend holds (-2.0%/yr, Total enrollment)

At per-pupil funding of $ / student:

Horizon Projected Total enrollment Change Funding impact / yr
1 yr (2027) ~63 -1 $0
3 yr (2029) ~60 -4 $0
5 yr (2031) ~58 -6 $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.

East Hills Academy — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot

Public · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools

  • Senior-class enrollment is down 8% (37→34 from 2018 to 2026), outpacing the peer-group median of -19%.
  • At its recent rate (-2.8%/yr), enrollment projects to ~59 by 2029 — about 5 fewer students than today.

Enrollment projection

64 students (2026)
~59 projected (2029)
at -2.8%/yr

That's about 5 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
East Hills Academy Public 64 -8%
Peer-group median 12.5% -19%
Options Secondary School Public 54 +27%
Monarch School Public 59 +50%
Alta Vista Academy Public 33 -17%
Maac Community Charter Public 151 -41%
Grossmont Middle College Hs Public 47 12.5% -56%
Palomar High Public 222 -21%
East Village Middle College Hs Public 158 52.2% +33%
Garfield High Public 164 -36%
City Heights Preparatory Charter Public 157 +175%
King-Chavez Community High Public 255 4.8% -66%

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

Action needed
Mid-year exits eroding share alongside county-wide pressure.

Tracking San Diego County on enrollment (-8.1% vs. -7.8%), but stability (81.2%) is below the county median. Retention is the levered fix. Chronic absenteeism is also at 48.0% (up +37.7 pts from 2016-17) — engagement and demand are both signaling decline.

-8.1%  school enrollment (2018–2026)
-7.8%  San Diego County baseline
-0.3pp  gap vs. county
81.2%  retention (county median 88.5%)
Enrollment — indexed to 100 at 2018
Stability rate by year (raw %)
Stability rate
81.2%
56 of 69 students

13 of 69 students who enrolled at East Hills Academy this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (18.8% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.

San Diego County median
88.5% · school is in the 28th percentile of 121 HS
Statewide median
87.2% · in the 32nd percentile of 1,688 HS

Stability by student group

Students w/ disabilities (78) 79.5%
Hispanic / Latino (50) 78.0%
Socio. disadvantaged (38) 86.8%

Nearest peer high schools

Options Secondary School 68.2% Monarch School 60.0% Alta Vista Academy 30.2% Maac Community Charter 40.1% Grossmont Middle College Hs 74.4%

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 — Sweetwater 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
$646.0M
+11.4% since FY2017
Per-pupil revenue
$17,430
37,060 students enrolled
Revenue mix
State: 58.9%
Local: 32.0%
Federal: 9.1%
Instruction share
53.4%
of current spending · $7,362/pupil
Long-term debt
$482.5M
+22.4% since FY2017
Total revenue by year ($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 Sweetwater 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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