Foothill Technology Hs

• ▸On UC Reach Score, Foothill Technology Hs sits in the middle of its similar-school group (ranked #5 of 8): 21 vs. a peer median of 21.
• ▸Foothill Technology Hs's UC Reach Score has stepped down from a peak of 28 in 2023 to 21 in 2025 — a 8-point decline worth tracking.
• ▸Across the top-6 UC campuses, Foothill Technology Hs is admitting at roughly -6 percentage points below what its average applicant GPA (3.931) alone would predict (16% actual vs. 22% expected). That's worth understanding — it can reflect grade inflation that UC sees through, weaker holistic-review materials at the margin, or applicants concentrating at more selective campuses than typical. Not a verdict; a signal.
• ▸Senior-class enrollment is down 8% (255→235 from 2018 to 2026), tracking the peer-group median of -9%.
• ▸In business terms, this is market-share growth during a market contraction. Ventura County's senior population shrank 10% over the same window — Foothill Technology Hs only shrank 8%. So Foothill Technology Hs picked up about 2 percentage points of relative share — families chose it over the alternatives even as the overall pool got smaller. That's overperforming the market in a shrinking market.
• ▸At its recent rate (-0.8%/yr), enrollment projects to ~917 by 2029 — about 22 fewer students than today.

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UC Reach = top-6 UC admits ÷ senior class. Sources: UCOP Admissions by Source School, CDE enrollment, IRS Form 990, NCES F-33. Reach — by Test Prep Gurus · Methodology

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