High Bluff Academy

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Academic signals

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

🎓 Where grads go

UC admits by campus · Class of 2025

UCI

4 admitted

UCD

4 admitted

Source: University of California Office of the President, Admissions by Source School. Full campus-by-campus breakdown below.

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No SBAC data for private schools — and that's not the metric you want anyway

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

Total enrollment (9–12)

42 (2020) → 52 (2025)

+23.8%

Grade 12 (graduating class)

18 (2020) → 16 (2025)

-11.1%

If this trend holds (+6.7%/yr, Total enrollment)

At tuition of $ / student:

Horizon	Projected Total enrollment	Change	Tuition impact / yr
1 yr (2026)	~55	+3	$0
3 yr (2028)	~63	+11	$0
5 yr (2030)	~72	+20	$0

Straight-line extrapolation of the recent annual rate — a what-if, not a forecast of intent. Edit the figure to match your school.

High Bluff Academy — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot

Private · secular · San Diego · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools

▸On UC Reach Score, High Bluff Academy sits near the top of its similar-school group (ranked #1 of 3): 109 vs. a peer median of 20.
▸Across the top-6 UC campuses, High Bluff Academy is admitting at roughly +15 percentage points above what its average applicant GPA (4.086) alone would predict (41% actual vs. 26% expected). That's a meaningful signal — it can reflect UC's track record with this school's graduates, students presenting strongly in UC's holistic review (essays, EC's, context), or institutional familiarity helping at the margin. The data can't distinguish which, but the pattern itself is real and worth understanding.
▸Senior-class enrollment is down 11% (18→16 from 2020 to 2025), outpacing the peer-group median of -31%.
▸Enrollment has been growing (+4.4%/yr); projects to ~59 by 2028.

Enrollment projection

52 students (2025)

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~59 projected (2028)

at +4.4%/yr

Your school vs. its 10 most similar nearby schools

School	Type	Size	UC Reach Score	Enroll. trend
High Bluff Academy	Private · secular	52	109	-11%
Peer-group median			20	-31%
Fusion Academy	Private	48	—	+0%
Cal Coast Academy	Private · secular	70	—	+100%
Pacific Academy	Private · secular	87	—	+0%
Torah Hs of San Diego	Private · Other religious	44	—	-38%
Balboa School	Private · secular	38	—	-31%
Grauer School	Private · secular	157	30	-15%
Southern California Yeshiva Hs	Private · Other religious	26	—	-56%
Saint Michaels Prep School	Private	57	—	—
Fusion Academy Newport Beach	Private · secular	33	—	-42%
Escondido Adventist Academy	Private · Other religious	158	10	-41%

UC Reach Score = 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 →

University of California outcomes · Class of 2025

UC Reach Score ⓘ

N/A

(class size est.)

UC Application Reach Score ⓘ

N/A

53 applications

UC Admit Rate ⓘ

15.1%

8 / 53 applications

In context: CA median 26.1% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 40.5% · higher than 1% of CA HS.

UC Yield Rate ⓘ

N/A

None enrolled of 8 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.

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 · Private School Affidavit

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.

Avg. Applicant GPA · top-6 UCs ⓘ

4.09

Avg. Admitted GPA · top-6 UCs ⓘ

4.15

GPA figures reflect 2024 — UC has not yet released applicant/admit GPA for 2025.

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.

🎯 Who's actually getting into UC from High Bluff Academy

Campus	4.00+ GPA	3.70–3.99 GPA	3.30–3.69 GPA	< 3.30 GPA
UC Santa Barbara	Strong shot	Moderate	Long odds	Filtered out
UC Davis	Strong shot	Real shot	Moderate	Filtered out

Strong shot = ≥30% statewide admit rate at this band · Real shot = 10–29% · Moderate = 5–9% · Long odds = 1–4% · Filtered out = under 1%. Tiers map this school's likely outcomes by GPA tier using statewide CA admit rates from UCOP 2024.

The numbers behind it

Campus	Applicant GPA	Admit GPA	Lift ⓘ	Admit rate	vs peer schools @ same GPA ⓘ
UC Santa Barbara	4.11	4.21	+0.10	54.5%	Peers +0.19 · wider
UC Davis	4.09	4.10	+0.01	72.7%	Peers +0.16 · 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%

How we infer the tier labels: Each tier comes from the statewide CA admit rate at that GPA band at that UC. The "vs peers" column compares this school's lift (admit GPA − applicant GPA) to the average lift at ~100–300 other CA schools with similar applicant pool GPA. What this isn't: a guarantee. UC comprehensive review weighs essays, course rigor, demographics, and context-of-opportunity beyond GPA. A 3.9 with strong context can land an admit; a 4.0 with weak essays can be denied. Use as a baseline expectation, not a verdict. Per-campus year is shown when it differs from the headline year (UCOP doesn't always publish admit-GPA for every campus every year).

Where High Bluff Academy sits vs. all California schools ⓘ

Overall, this school admits its UC applicants 15.3 points above what their GPAs predict (41.4% actual vs. 26.0% expected), based on 2024 data.

UC Outcomes Trend — 2018–2025

UC Admit Rate %

UC Reach Score (where available)

UC Admits (count, right axis)

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 — 2025

Campus	Applicants	Admits	Enrollees	Admit Rate	UC Reach Score	Yield	Avg GPA (App) '24	Avg GPA (Adm) '24
UC Berkeley → Elite	8	—^†	—^†	—^†	—^†	—	4.11	—^†
UCLA → Elite	9	—^†	—^†	—^†	—^†	—	4.11	—^†
UC San Diego → Selective	11	—^†	—^†	—^†	—^†	—	4.03	—^†
UC Santa Barbara → Selective	7	—^†	—^†	—^†	—^†	—	4.11	4.21
UC Irvine → Selective	9	4	—^†	44.4%	—	—	4.11	—^†
UC Davis →	9	4	—^†	44.4%	—	—	4.09	4.10

† = 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: UC Reach sums campus-level admits across the top-six UC campuses, so a student admitted to both UCLA and UCSD is counted at each. It measures competitive admit volume relative to class size — admit-events, not distinct students — which is why it 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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