Golden Charter Academy is a K-6 school.

It serves grades K-6 (California Department of Education school directory), so it has no graduating class and there is nothing to measure for UC admissions. Its enrollment, student body and state test results are below.

Golden Charter Academy

Fresno · Fresno County · Fresno Unified · Public

Public Fresno County Fresno Unified → CDS 1062166…
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How Golden Charter Academy compares for families

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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: total enrollment.

42% of students miss 10%+ of school days — above the state's ~21%. Ask what the school is doing about engagement.
Chronic absent
41.5%
177 of 427 students

Absenteeism is up 3.9 pp since 2021-22. A rising absenteeism trend often precedes formal departure — worth investigating which subgroups are driving it.

Fresno County median
20.5% · school is worse than 82% of 68 HS
Statewide median
20.9%
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
188 (2022)346 (2026)
+84.0%

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Aspen Valley Prep Academy · Edison-Bethune Charter Academy · Morris E. Dailey Charter Elementary · Clovis Global Academy · Quail Lake Environmental Charter · Sanger Academy Charter · +4 more

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Enrollment stability & demand — 2024-25

Two complementary signals: retention (do students stay once enrolled?) and demand (are families choosing the school?). Read against the Fresno County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.

84% of students who start the year here finish it here.
Stability rate
84.2%
374 of 444 students

70 of 444 students who enrolled at Golden Charter Academy this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (15.8% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.

Fresno County median
87.4% · school is in the 38th percentile of 69 HS
Statewide median
88.7% · in the 31st percentile of 2,689 HS

Stability by student group

Socio. disadvantaged (369) 83.7%
Black / African Am. (224) 86.6%
Hispanic / Latino (160) 81.3%
Students w/ disabilities (55) 90.9%
Two or more races (38) 84.2%
White (20) 85.0%

Nearest peer high schools

Aspen Valley Prep Academy 86.3% Edison-Bethune Charter Academy 84.8% Morris E. Dailey Charter Elementary 94.7% Clovis Global Academy 95.4% Quail Lake Environmental Charter 95.8%

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 — Fresno 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
$1286.9M
+15.0% since FY2017
Per-pupil revenue
$18,360
70,088 students enrolled
Revenue mix
State: 72.1%
Local: 12.4%
Federal: 15.6%
Instruction share
58.4%
of current spending · $9,375/pupil
Long-term debt
$836.3M
+29.3% since FY2017
Total revenue by year ($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 Fresno 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).

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