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El Sol Santa Ana Science And Arts Academy

· Orange County · Santa Ana Unified · Public

Public Orange County 🏛 Santa Ana Unified → CDS 3066670…
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Programs & features
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Academic signals
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How El Sol Santa Ana Science And Arts Academy compares for families

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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: total enrollment.

Chronic absent
10.6%
107 of 1,009 students

Absenteeism is up 6.9 pp since 2016-17. A rising absenteeism trend often precedes formal departure — worth investigating which subgroups are driving it.

Orange County median
16.4% · school is better than 77% of 143 HS
Statewide median
20.9%
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
894 (2018)997 (2026)
+11.5%

If this trend holds (+1.2%/yr, Total enrollment)

At per-pupil funding of $ / student:

Horizon Projected Total enrollment Change Funding impact / yr
1 yr (2027) ~1,009 +12 $0
3 yr (2029) ~1,034 +37 $0
5 yr (2031) ~1,060 +63 $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.

El Sol Santa Ana Science And Arts Academy — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot

Public · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools

  • Enrollment has been growing (+1.4%/yr); projects to ~1039 by 2029.

Enrollment projection

997 students (2026)
~1039 projected (2029)
at +1.4%/yr

Your school vs. its 10 most similar nearby schools

School Type Size UC Reach Enroll. trend
El Sol Santa Ana Science And Arts Academy Public 997
Peer-group median 17.1% +8%
Sycamore Magnet Academy Public 1033
Legacy Magnet Academy Public 988 86.8% +35%
Samueli Academy Public 844 40.4% +8%
South Junior High Public 1054
Orange County Classical Academy Public 861
Romero-Cruz Academy Public 763
Century High School Public 1356 8.2% +18%
Orange County Educational Arts Academy Public 663
Los Amigos High School Public 1327 17.1% -21%
Saddleback High School Public 1407 15.1% -3%

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

Stability rate
95.5%
968 of 1,014 students

46 of 1,014 students who enrolled at El Sol Santa Ana Science And Arts Academy this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (4.5% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.

Orange County median
91.8% · school is in the 88th percentile of 144 HS
Statewide median
88.7% · in the 89th percentile of 2,648 HS

Stability by student group

Hispanic / Latino (989) 95.3%
Socio. disadvantaged (562) 94.0%
English learners (256) 92.2%
Students w/ disabilities (120) 95.0%

Nearest peer high schools

Sycamore Magnet Academy 91.4% Legacy Magnet Academy 97.7% Samueli Academy 94.9% South Junior High 92.1% Orange County Classical Academy 78.1%

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 — Santa Ana 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
$856.0M
+6.5% since FY2017
Per-pupil revenue
$19,336
44,271 students enrolled
Revenue mix
State: 56.1%
Local: 28.4%
Federal: 15.5%
Instruction share
62.3%
of current spending · $10,226/pupil
Long-term debt
$514.3M
+31.4% since FY2017
Total revenue by year ($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 Santa Ana 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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