Excelsior School
Pasadena · Los Angeles County · Private independent
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🎓 Where grads go
UC admits by campus · Class of 2024
Source: University of California Office of the President, Admissions by Source School. Full campus-by-campus breakdown below.
How Excelsior School compares for families
What families should know about Excelsior School.
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Southwestern Academy, Tree Academy, Fusion Academy - Pasadena 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.
This school doesn't have UC outcomes data on file yet — we surface UCOP-published admits by sending HS, and not every private school appears in those records. The enrollment trend, stability, and other cards on this page are still primary-sourced for this school.
Enrollment trend & projection
If this trend holds (+11.5%/yr, Total enrollment)
At tuition of $ / student:
| Horizon | Projected Total enrollment | Change | Tuition impact / yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 yr (2026) | ~80 | +8 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2028) | ~100 | +28 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2030) | ~124 | +52 | $0 |
Straight-line extrapolation of the recent annual rate — a what-if, not a forecast of intent. Edit the figure to match your school.
Excelsior School — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot
Private · secular · Pasadena · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools
- ▸Senior-class enrollment is up 110% (10→21 from 2020 to 2025), outpacing the peer-group median of -35%.
- ▸Enrollment has been growing (+18.4%/yr); projects to ~119 by 2028.
Enrollment projection
Your school vs. its 10 most similar nearby schools
| School | Type | Size | UC Reach | Enroll. trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Excelsior School | Private · secular | 72 | — | +110% |
| Peer-group median | 23.1% | -35% | ||
| Southwestern Academy | Private · secular | 67 | 33.3% | -61% |
| Tree Academy | Private · secular | 77 | 12.5% | +267% |
| Fusion Academy - Pasadena | Private · secular | 43 | — | -64% |
| Agbu Vatche and Tamar Manoukian Hs | Private · secular | 136 | 37.9% | — |
| Fusion Academy - Los Angeles | Private · secular | 74 | 23.1% | +13% |
| Holy Family High School | Private · Catholic | 65 | 14.3% | -29% |
| Arroyo Pacific Academy | Private · secular | 133 | 14.8% | -63% |
| Academy of Media Arts | Private | 60 | — | -6% |
| Ribet Academy | Private · secular | 40 | 116.0% | -74% |
| San Gabriel Mission High Sch | Private · Catholic | 112 | 23.1% | -35% |
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 →
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.
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 Irvine | Strong shot | Real shot | Long odds | Filtered out |
The numbers behind it
| Campus | Applicant GPA | Admit GPA | Lift ⓘ | Admit rate | vs peer schools @ same GPA ⓘ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UC Irvine (2018) | 3.65 | 3.70 | +0.05 | 66.7% | Peers +0.44 · 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 — 2018–2024
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 — 2024
| Campus | Applicants | Admits | Enrollees | Admit Rate | UC Reach | Yield | Avg GPA (App) | Avg GPA (Adm) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UC Berkeley → Elite | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| UCLA → Elite | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| UC San Diego → Selective | 5 | —† | —† | —† | —† | — | 3.91 | —† |
| UC Santa Barbara → Selective | 5 | —† | —† | —† | —† | — | 3.91 | —† |
| UC Irvine → Selective | 5 | 3 | —† | 60.0% | — | — | 3.91 | —† |
| UC Davis → | 5 | 4 | —† | 80.0% | — | — | 3.91 | —† |