Glacier High School Charter

Oakhurst · Madera County · Yosemite Unified · Public

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What families should know about Glacier High School Charter.

▸ Locally🎯 #1 in Madera County on Attendance (lowest chronic absenteeism) — plus 3 more top-ranks.
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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.

About 6 in 10 students read and write at grade level — above the state norm.

About 4 in 10 students do math at grade level — the top quarter of California high schools.

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.

Kids show up: 3% are chronically absent versus about 23% statewide — engagement most schools would envy.

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.

How does Glacier High School Charter really compare on getting kids to college?

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Enrollment trend + 3-year projection — is this school growing or quietly shrinking?

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Your similar-school group includes

Ahwahnee High School · Evergreen High School · Chawanakee Academy Charter · Minarets Charter High School · Spring Hill High (continuation) · Yosemite High School · +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 Madera County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.

77% of students who start the year here finish it here.

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 1,689 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 Score ⓘ

N/A

(class size est.)

UC Application Reach Score ⓘ

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 Score ⓘ

N/A

None enrollees / None seniors

Enrollment Reach vs. Yield: Reach answers "of the whole senior class, what share 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 ⓘ

Only 1 in 5 of graduates finish the courses UC and CSU require — below the state norm. Worth asking how course access and planning work here.

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 ⓘ

All grades · CDE Census Day

Campus Breakdown — 2024

Campus	Applicants	Admits	Enrollees	Admit Rate	UC Reach Score	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: the UC Reach Score sums campus-level admits across the top-six UC campuses, so a student admitted to both UCLA and UCSD is counted at each. It reflects competitive admit volume relative to class size — admit-events, not distinct students — which is why a Score can exceed 100.

Senior class size is estimated from CDE grade 12 enrollment data. Reach percentages should be interpreted as approximate.

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