Glacier High School Charter

Oakhurst · Madera County · Yosemite Unified · Public

Public Madera County 🏛 Yosemite Unified → CDS 2076414…
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📘Top 25% Math · SBAC (CA) 🎯#1 Attendance (lowest chronic absenteeism) in Madera 🎯Top 5% Attendance (lowest chronic absenteeism) in CA

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Academic signals
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Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.

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  • Locally🎯 #1 in Madera County on Attendance (lowest chronic absenteeism) — plus 3 more top-ranks.
  • vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Ahwahnee High School, Evergreen High School, Chawanakee Academy Charter and 2 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.

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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.

ELA — met or exceeded
n = 21
61.9%
incl. 38.1% exceeded
+7.6 pts above Madera County median (54.3%) · CA median 54.3% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 79.3%
Math — met or exceeded
n = 21
42.9%
incl. 14.3% exceeded
+28.8 pts above Madera County median (14.1%) · CA median 21.1% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 53.6%

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

White 76% +8.0
Two or more 9%
American Indian 7% +4.8
Hispanic / Latino 5% -9.4
Asian 1% -1.4
Filipino 1%

Program subgroups

Students w/ disabilities 46% +29.3

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.

Chronic absent
3.3%
3 of 91 students

Low and stable absenteeism — students are engaged and showing up. The leading indicator is healthy.

Madera County median
30.5% · school is better than 100% of 10 HS
Statewide median
22.9%
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 (9–12)
120 (2018)97 (2026)
-19.2%
Grade 12 (graduating class)
30 (2018)23 (2026)
-23.3%

If this trend holds (-4.9%/yr, Total enrollment)

At per-pupil funding of $ / student:

Horizon Projected Total enrollment Change Funding impact / yr
1 yr (2027) ~92 -5 $0
3 yr (2029) ~83 -14 $0
5 yr (2031) ~75 -22 $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.

Glacier High School Charter — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot

Public · Oakhurst · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools

  • Senior-class enrollment is down 23% (30→23 from 2018 to 2026), trailing the peer-group median of +27%.
  • At its recent rate (-2.6%/yr), enrollment projects to ~90 by 2029 — about 7 fewer students than today.

Enrollment projection

97 students (2026)
~90 projected (2029)
at -2.6%/yr

That's about 7 fewer students. At per-student funding of $ per student, that's roughly $0 in annual state funding at risk.

Default = California's LCFF base grant for grades 9–12 ($12,423 per ADA) — adjust to your district's actual per-pupil figure. Projection extrapolates the recent annual rate — not a forecast of intent.

Your school vs. its 10 most similar nearby schools

School Type Size UC Reach Enroll. trend
Glacier High School Charter Public 97 -23%
Peer-group median 18.1% +27%
Ahwahnee High School Public 50 +156%
Evergreen High School Public 45 +91%
Chawanakee Academy Charter Public 164 -43%
Minarets Charter High School Public 173 +4%
Spring Hill High (continuation) Public 37 +1600%
Yosemite High School Public 509 18.1% -37%
Pershing Continuation High Public 105 -15%
Mountain Vista High Public 123 +0%
Sherman Thomas Charter Public 78 +50%
Minarets High School Public 296 +56%

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

Critical
Compounding decline on both vectors.

Enrollment -23.3% vs. county +6.9% AND stability (77.4%) below the county median. Recruitment and retention both under pressure — likely a foundational rather than tactical problem.

-23.3%  school enrollment (2018–2026)
+6.9%  Madera County baseline
-30.2pp  gap vs. county
77.4%  retention (county median 86.3%)
Enrollment — indexed to 100 at 2018
Stability rate by year (raw %)
Stability rate
77.4%
72 of 93 students

21 of 93 students who enrolled at Glacier High School Charter this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (22.6% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.

Madera County median
86.3% · school is in the 20th percentile of 10 HS
Statewide median
87.2% · in the 26th percentile of 1,688 HS

Stability by student group

White (68) 80.9%
Socio. disadvantaged (50) 70.0%

Nearest peer high schools

Ahwahnee High School 43.9% Evergreen High School 60.7% Chawanakee Academy Charter 65.4% Minarets Charter High School 87.6% Spring Hill High (continuation) 28.6%

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 — Yosemite 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
$24.3M
-1.1% since FY2017
Per-pupil revenue
$17,813
1,364 students enrolled
Revenue mix
State: 44.9%
Local: 42.7%
Federal: 12.4%
Instruction share
48.4%
of current spending · $7,173/pupil
Long-term debt
$5.6M
-32.1% since FY2017
Total revenue by year ($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 Yosemite 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).

University of California outcomes · Class of 2024
UC Reach
N/A
(class size est.)
UC Application Reach
N/A
None applications
UC Admit Rate
N/A
None / None applications
UC Yield Rate
N/A
None enrolled of None admitted
Yield vs. Enrollment Reach: Yield answers "of UC admits, what % chose UC?" — denominator is just the admits. A small admitted cohort can post a low yield even when the school sends a healthy share of its class to UC.
UC Enrollment Reach
N/A
None enrollees / None seniors
Enrollment Reach vs. Yield: Reach answers "of the whole senior class, what % ended up at UC?" — denominator is everyone. High Yield with low Enrollment Reach is common at elite privates: most admits matriculate, but the school sends most of its class to non-UC selective colleges.
A-G Completion
19%
6 of 31 graduates · 2019-20 cohort
In context: CA median 51.0% · -31.6 pp vs. median · Madera Co. 39.7%.
Selective UC Reach (UCSD, UCSB, UCI, UCD)
N/A
Elite UC Reach (UCB + UCLA)
N/A
Senior Class Size
N/A
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Total School Enrollment
82
All grades · CDE Census Day

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
UC Davis →
= UCOP-suppressed (count below 3 students, hidden for privacy — actual value is 0, 1, or 2, not necessarily zero). Campus-level totals may count one student admitted to multiple UC campuses more than once; Admit Volume metrics are not the same as UC Reach, which requires unique-student counts. See methodology →

What This Means

Note: admit counts used here are campus-level totals. A student admitted to both UCLA and UCSD is counted twice. When UCOP unique-student data becomes available it will be loaded automatically and the labels will update.
Senior class size is estimated from CDE grade 12 enrollment data. Reach percentages should be interpreted as approximate.
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  • Your 5-year enrollment forecast (currently -4.9%/yr) with the revenue at stake
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