Ef Academy - Pasadena
Pasadena · Los Angeles County · Private independent
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- The UC pipeline here is real. 32 admissions to the top six UC campuses for a class of 68 seniors puts this school in roughly the top 13% of California high schools.
- Worth asking admissions: the school profile. This school doesn't publish SAT/ACT or AP results publicly. Every private school produces a counselor's "school profile" for colleges — ask for it. How a school answers says as much as the numbers.
Composed from this page's data — every claim is backed by a number in the sections below.
Where grads go — and what it costs & pays
UC admits by campus · Class of 2025
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Get my child's odds + our real costs →Sources: UC Office of the President (admits); IPEDS net price + College Scorecard 10-yr earnings (cost & payoff). Full campus-by-campus breakdown below.
How Ef Academy - Pasadena compares for families
Top-tier college outcomes for California families.
- ▸ StatewideUC Reach Score of 47 — 28 points above the California median of 19. Ahead of 87% of California high schools.
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsOther schools in the county, closest in size: Pacifica Christian High School, South Hills Academy, Valley Torah High School and 2 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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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 Ef Academy - Pasadena's 2025 number, statewide percentile, and 5-year trend.
Enrollment trend & projection
Ef Academy - Pasadena sent 144 applications to the six most selective University of California campuses and 22.2% were admitted, producing a UC Reach Score of 47 (top-6 UC admits per 100 seniors, counting a student at each campus that admitted them) — 28 points above the California median of 19, higher than 87% of California high schools..
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Higher than 87% of California high schools (1107 ranked, ≥50 seniors)
Ef Academy - Pasadena's UC Reach Score of 47 is in the top quartile statewide (median 19; top 25% bar 33) — but it's still below the top-10% bar of 53.
For context, the elite tier (top 1%) clears 95 — a gap of 48 pp from where this school sits.
Overall, Ef Academy - Pasadena's UC Reach is higher than 87% of California high schools (1107 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 Outcomes Trend — 2024–2025
Class size from CDE grade 12 enrollment. Campus-level data: applicant and admit totals count a student once at EACH campus. A senior admitted to UCLA and UC San Diego adds 2 to the admit total, so the total can exceed the senior class — that is the metric working as defined, not an error. The admit RATE is unaffected: both its numerator and denominator are campus-level.
Campus Breakdown — 2025
| Campus | Applicants | Admits | Enrollees | Admit Rate | UC Reach Score | Yield | Avg GPA (App) '24 | Avg GPA (Adm) '24 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UC Berkeley → Elite | 25 | —† | —† | —† | —† | — | 3.60 | —† |
| UCLA → Elite | 27 | —† | —† | —† | —† | — | 3.44 | —† |
| UC San Diego → Selective | 25 | 7 | —† | 28.0% | 10 | — | 3.37 | —† |
| UC Santa Barbara → Selective | 22 | 7 | —† | 31.8% | 10 | — | 3.30 | —† |
| UC Irvine → Selective | 27 | 8 | —† | 29.6% | 12 | — | 3.40 | —† |
| UC Davis → | 18 | 10 | —† | 55.6% | 15 | — | 3.49 | —† |
What This Means
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