Compare with peers
Most similar nearby schools
Icef View Park Preparatory High → City Honors International Preparatory High → Libertas College Preparatory Charter → Animo City Of Champions Charter High → Open Charter Magnet → Compare all similar →📋 At a glance
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 6% of US high schools
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
🎓 Where grads go
UC admits by campus · Class of 2025
Source: University of California Office of the President, Admissions by Source School. Full campus-by-campus breakdown below.
How Highland Elementary compares for families
One of California's strongest schools for college outcomes.
- ▸ Statewide83.8% UC Reach — 65.7 points above the California median of 18.1%. Ahead of 98% of California high schools.
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsBeats the peer median (83.8% UC Reach vs 12.8% median) across the 5 most similar nearby schools.
For Parents
Follow Highland Elementary
Get an email when Highland Elementary's numbers change — new admissions results, enrollment shifts, test scores. A few updates a year, no spam.
SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-21Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). Volume — not score — is what's reported here. A higher count means more students at this school are entering the college admissions pipeline. Note: 2020-21 was COVID-disrupted; some districts (especially those that stayed remote longer) report unusually low or zero takers.
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.
Absenteeism is up 31.6 pp since 2016-17. A rising absenteeism trend often precedes formal departure — worth investigating which subgroups are driving it.
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
If this trend holds (-7.2%/yr, Total enrollment)
At per-pupil funding of $ / student:
| Horizon | Projected Total enrollment | Change | Funding impact / yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 yr (2026) | ~300 | -23 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2028) | ~258 | -65 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2030) | ~222 | -101 | $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.
Highland Elementary — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot
Public · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools
- ▸On UC Reach, Highland Elementary sits near the top of its similar-school group (ranked #1 of 3): 84% vs. a peer median of 13%.
- ▸At its recent rate (-8.2%/yr), enrollment projects to ~250 by 2028 — about 73 fewer students than today.
Enrollment projection
That's about 73 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Highland Elementary | Public | 323 | 83.8% | — |
| Peer-group median | 12.8% | -27% | ||
| Icef View Park Preparatory High | Public | 319 | 3.7% | -42% |
| City Honors International Preparatory High | Public | 284 | — | -12% |
| Libertas College Preparatory Charter | Public | 326 | — | — |
| Animo City Of Champions Charter High | Public | 306 | — | -50% |
| Open Charter Magnet | Public | 380 | — | — |
| Crete Academy | Public | 284 | — | — |
| Icef Inglewood Elementary Charter Academy | Public | 383 | — | — |
| Teach Tech Charter High School | Public | 345 | 21.9% | +122% |
| Barack Obama Global Preparation Academy | Public | 354 | — | — |
| Environmental Charter Middle - Inglewood | Public | 360 | — | — |
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 Los Angeles County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.
81 of 373 students who enrolled at Highland Elementary this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (21.7% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.
Stability by student group
Nearest peer high schools
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 — Inglewood 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.
Local: 40.0%
Federal: 15.5%
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 Inglewood 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).
Highland Elementary sent 268 applications to the six most selective University of California campuses and 25.0% were admitted, producing a UC Reach of 83.8% — 65.7 percentage points above the California median of 18.1%, higher than 98% of California high schools. The school produces 11.2 UCLA + UC Berkeley admits per 100 seniors.
+71.0 pp above peer median (12.8%) · Ranked #1 of 3 similar schools
18.1%
12.8%
51.2%
83.8%
Higher than 98% of California high schools (978 ranked, ≥50 seniors)
Highland Elementary's UC Reach of 83.8% clears the statewide top-10% cutoff (51.2%) — meaning roughly 83 top-6 UC admits per 100 seniors, well above what most California schools achieve.
For context, the elite tier (top 1%) clears 97.3% — a gap of 14 pp from where this school sits.
Overall, Highland Elementary's UC Reach is higher than 98% of California high schools (978 ranked).
Campus Breakdown — 2025
| Campus | Applicants | Admits | Enrollees | Admit Rate | UC Reach | Yield | Avg GPA (App) | Avg GPA (Adm) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UC Berkeley → Elite | 39 | 4 | —† | 10.3% | 5.0% | — | — | —† |
| UCLA → Elite | 63 | 5 | 4 | 7.9% | 6.2% | 80.0% | — | —† |
| UC San Diego → Selective | 46 | 13 | 4 | 28.3% | 16.2% | 30.8% | — | —† |
| UC Santa Barbara → Selective | 36 | 17 | 7 | 47.2% | 21.2% | 41.2% | — | —† |
| UC Irvine → Selective | 55 | 16 | —† | 29.1% | 20.0% | — | — | —† |
| UC Davis → | 29 | 12 | —† | 41.4% | 15.0% | — | — | —† |
What This Means
For School Admins
The full Reach Report for Highland Elementary
A board- and LCAP-ready intelligence brief: your enrollment retention and college outcomes, benchmarked against your closest competitors, with a 5-year forecast, concrete steps to act on, and the rigor + outcomes story you can share with your families. Built from primary public data — prepared for you, not auto-generated.
- ✓Your UC Reach (83.8%) ranked head-to-head against your closest competitor schools
- ✓Your 5-year enrollment forecast (currently -7.2%/yr) with the revenue at stake
- ✓Student-retention benchmarking vs your county median — and the LCAP evidence to back your goals