High Tech High Media Arts

• ▸On UC Reach Score, High Tech High Media Arts sits in the middle of its similar-school group (ranked #3 of 8): 37 vs. a peer median of 19.
• ▸High Tech High Media Arts's UC Reach Score has declined meaningfully from a peak of 64 in 2024 to 37 in 2025 — a 27-point drop that warrants attention. Multi-year UC Reach declines of this size often signal something specific (leadership change, comp-program shift, demographic move) rather than year-to-year noise. This is the kind of trajectory an Enrollment Trend Audit unpacks.
• ▸Senior-class enrollment is down 6% (89→84 from 2018 to 2026), tracking the peer-group median of -7%.
• ▸In business terms, this is market-share growth during a market contraction. San Diego County's senior population shrank 8% over the same window — High Tech High Media Arts only shrank 6%. So High Tech High Media Arts 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 (-1.7%/yr), enrollment projects to ~329 by 2029 — about 17 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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