Emery Secondary School
Emeryville · Alameda County · Public
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- The UC pipeline here is real. 14 admissions to the top six UC campuses for a class of 45 seniors puts this school in roughly the top 24% of California high schools.
- Worth asking about: attendance. 39% of students are chronically absent — above the state's ~23%. Ask what the school is doing about engagement; absenteeism is usually the earliest warning light.
Composed from this page's data — every claim is backed by a number in the sections below.
📋 At a glance
- 📚 2 AP courses offered — Strong
- 🎓 AP rigor: 58th percentile nationally
- 📝 SAT/ACT participation: Bottom 19% by test-taker volume
- 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 95% (75th percentile nationally)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts graduation data, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
🎓 Where grads go — and what it costs & pays
UC admits by campus · Class of 2025
Getting in is step one. The cost above is the average family's net price — yours depends on your income — and your child's odds depend on their GPA + scores. See your family's real numbers at these campuses:
🎯 Get my child's odds + our real net price →Sources: UC Office of the President (admits); IPEDS net price + College Scorecard 10-yr earnings (cost & payoff). Full campus-by-campus breakdown below.
How Emery Secondary School compares for families
Above-average college outcomes statewide.
- ▸ StatewideUC Reach Score of 31 — 13 points above the California median of 18. Ahead of 76% of California high schools.
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsBeats the peer median (UC Reach Score 31 vs a 10 median) across the 5 most similar nearby schools.
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🎓 Academic rigor
AP + advanced-course offerings
Strong — solid AP program + advanced courses
58th percentile nationally
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). CRDC reports what's offered + enrolled — it doesn't collect AP exam pass rates (College Board owns that data and doesn't release it school-level).
SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-21Bottom 19% by test-taker volume
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?
75th percentile nationally
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 Schoolwide eligible
≥40% FRPL — qualifies for Title I Schoolwide program
40-74% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. The district can use Title I funds across the whole school under federal Schoolwide Program rules.
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.
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.
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
Program subgroups
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.
Absenteeism is up 17.2 pp since 2016-17. A rising absenteeism trend often precedes formal departure — worth investigating which subgroups are driving it.
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
If this trend holds (-2.3%/yr, Total enrollment)
At per-pupil funding of $ / student:
| Horizon | Projected Total enrollment | Change | Funding impact / yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 yr (2027) | ~145 | -3 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2029) | ~138 | -10 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2031) | ~132 | -16 | $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.
How does Emery Secondary School really compare on getting kids to college?
We've ranked it #1 of 4 most similar nearby schools on UC Reach. Unlock the full snapshot to see the head-to-head — who's ahead, by how much, and where it's heading.
Your similar-school group includes
Envision Academy For Arts & Technology · Dewey High School · Metwest High School · Greenwood Academy · Lps Oakland R&d Campus · Gateway To College High At Laney College · +4 more
Enrollment stability & demand — 2024-25
Two complementary signals: retention (do students stay once enrolled?) and demand (are families choosing the school?). Read against the Alameda County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.
Enrollment growth is beating Alameda County (+5.9% vs. -9.6%), but 23 of 176 students didn't maintain continuous enrollment. Why are families leaving once enrolled? Chronic absenteeism is also at 39.2% (up +17.2 pts from 2016-17) — engagement and demand are both signaling decline.
23 of 176 students who enrolled at Emery Secondary School this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (13.1% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.
Stability by student group
Nearest peer high schools
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.
Emery Secondary School sent 70 applications to the six most selective University of California campuses and 20.0% were admitted, producing a UC Reach Score of 31 — 13 points above the California median of 18, higher than 76% of California high schools. The school produces 15.6 UCLA + UC Berkeley admits per 100 seniors.
+22 pts above peer median (10) · Ranked #1 of 4 similar schools
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Higher than 76% of California high schools (980 ranked, ≥50 seniors)
Emery Secondary School's UC Reach Score of 31 is in the top quartile statewide (median 18; top 25% bar 31) — but it's still below the top-10% bar of 51.
But in Alameda County, where the local median is 40 and the top-10% bar is 68, this score is mid-pack rather than exceptional — typical of its market rather than a standout.
Against similar schools, Emery Secondary School stands out clearly — the peer-group median is 10.
For context, the elite tier (top 1%) clears 97 — a gap of 66 pp from where this school sits.
Overall, Emery Secondary School's UC Reach is higher than 76% of California high schools (980 ranked).
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 Berkeley | Real shot | Long odds | Filtered out | Filtered out |
| UC Davis | Strong shot | Strong shot | Real shot | Filtered out |
The numbers behind it
| Campus | Applicant GPA | Admit GPA | Lift ⓘ | Admit rate | vs peer schools @ same GPA ⓘ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UC Berkeley (2020) | 3.81 | 4.19 | +0.37 | 30.0% | Peers +0.33 · steeper |
| UC Davis | 3.72 | 3.94 | +0.22 | 41.2% | Peers +0.35 · wider |
📊 Statewide CA admit rates by individual GPA band, 2025 (for reference)
| GPA band | UCB | UCLA | UCSD | UCSB | UCI | UCD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4.00+ | 17.0% | 15.1% | 45.2% | 62.3% | 46.3% | 65.9% |
| 3.70–3.99 | 3.1% | 1.6% | 9.3% | 17.6% | 17.0% | 31.1% |
| 3.30–3.69 | 0.8% | 0.5% | 1.5% | 2.8% | 2.4% | 10.3% |
| 3.00–3.29 | 0.4% | 0.3% | 0.2% | 0.4% | 0.3% | 1.9% |
| < 3.00 | 0.7% | 0.4% | 0.3% | 0.2% | 0.1% | 0.7% |
Where Emery Secondary School sits vs. all California schools ⓘ
Overall, this school admits its UC applicants 13.6 points above what their GPAs predict (32.6% actual vs. 19.0% expected).
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 Score | Yield | Avg GPA (App) | Avg GPA (Adm) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UC Berkeley → Elite | 14 | 4 | 3 | 28.6% | 9 | 75.0% | 3.86 | —† |
| UCLA → Elite | 12 | 3 | —† | 25.0% | 7 | — | 3.85 | —† |
| UC San Diego → Selective | 9 | —† | —† | —† | —† | — | 3.68 | —† |
| UC Santa Barbara → Selective | 11 | —† | —† | —† | —† | — | 3.55 | —† |
| UC Irvine → Selective | 7 | —† | —† | —† | —† | — | 3.57 | —† |
| UC Davis → | 17 | 7 | 4 | 41.2% | 16 | 57.1% | 3.72 | 3.94 |
What This Means
For School Admins
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