Horizon Charter School

Lincoln · Placer County · Public

Public Placer County ~192 seniors CDS 3166951…

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📘Top 25% Math · SBAC (CA) 🎯Top 2 Attendance (lowest chronic absenteeism) in Placer 🎯Top 10% Attendance (lowest chronic absenteeism) in CA

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Programs & features

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Academic signals

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

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How Horizon Charter School compares for families

What families should know about Horizon Charter School.

▸ Locally🎯 Top 2 in Placer County on Attendance (lowest chronic absenteeism) — plus 1 more top-rank.
▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Western Sierra Collegiate Academy, Lincoln High School, Creative Connections Arts Academy and 2 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.

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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.

ELA — met or exceeded

n = 146

64.4%

incl. 29.4% exceeded

-2.9 pts vs. Placer County median (67.3%) · CA median 54.3% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 79.3%

Math — met or exceeded

n = 145

39.3%

incl. 15.2% exceeded

On the Placer County median (40.2%) · 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 56% +7.5

Hispanic / Latino 21% -9.4

Two or more 9%

Asian 5% +1.8

Black / African Am. 5%

Not reported 1% -1.0

Filipino 1%

Pacific Islander 1%

American Indian 1%

Program subgroups

Students w/ disabilities 51% -1.4

Socioeconomically disadv. 25% +2.7

English learners 9% +5.1

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.

Chronic absent

5.2%

36 of 693 students

Low and stable absenteeism — students are engaged and showing up. The leading indicator is healthy.

Placer County median

15.1% · school is better than 100% of 22 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)

635 (2024) → 639 (2026)

+0.6%

Grade 12 (graduating class)

205 (2024) → 198 (2026)

-3.4%

If this trend holds (+0.3%/yr, Total enrollment)

At per-pupil funding of $ / student:

Horizon	Projected Total enrollment	Change	Funding impact / yr
1 yr (2027)	~641	+2	$0
3 yr (2029)	~645	+6	$0
5 yr (2031)	~649	+10	$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.

Horizon Charter School — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot

Public · Lincoln · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools

▸On UC Reach, Horizon Charter School sits in the middle of its similar-school group (ranked #4 of 6): 5% vs. a peer median of 6%.
▸Senior-class enrollment is down 3% (205→198 from 2024 to 2026), trailing the peer-group median of +2%.
▸Enrollment has been growing (+0.3%/yr); projects to ~645 by 2029.

Enrollment projection

639 students (2026)

→

~645 projected (2029)

at +0.3%/yr

Your school vs. its 10 most similar nearby schools

School	Type	Size	UC Reach	Enroll. trend
Horizon Charter School	Public	639	4.9%	-3%
Peer-group median			6.4%	+2%
Western Sierra Collegiate Academy	Public	782	—	+5%
Lincoln High School	Public	1117	3.9%	-34%
Creative Connections Arts Academy	Public	786	—	+64%
San Juan High School	Public	523	6.4%	-8%
Highlands High School	Public	791	4.3%	+22%
Mesa Verde High School	Public	847	6.7%	-1%
John Adams Academy - Lincoln	Public	1390	—	+14%
Twelve Bridges High School	Public	1377	14.8%	+28%
Options For Youth San Juan	Public	742	—	-24%
Community Collaborative Charter	Public	810	—	-66%

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 Placer County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.

Critical

Bleeding from both ends.

Enrollment down 3.4% vs. county -0.7%, AND stability (80.8%) below the county median. Fewer families are choosing the school, and the ones who do aren't staying through year-end.

-3.4% school enrollment (2024–2026)

-0.7% Placer County baseline

-2.7pp gap vs. county

80.8% retention (county median 90.8%)

Enrollment — indexed to 100 at 2024

Stability rate by year (raw %)

Stability rate

80.8%

575 of 712 students

137 of 712 students who enrolled at Horizon Charter School this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (19.2% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.

Placer County median

90.8% · school is in the 26th percentile of 23 HS

Statewide median

87.2% · in the 31st percentile of 1,688 HS

Stability by student group

Socio. disadvantaged (1,120) 77.7%

White (1,026) 78.0%

Hispanic / Latino (465) 76.8%

Students w/ disabilities (389) 80.2%

Two or more races (219) 81.3%

English learners (148) 77.0%

Nearest peer high schools

Western Sierra Collegiate Academy 98.3% Lincoln High School 90.5% Creative Connections Arts Academy 87.4% San Juan High School 70.8% Highlands High School 78.4%

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.

University of California outcomes · Class of 2025

UC Reach ⓘ

N/A

UC Application Reach ⓘ

3.1%

6 applications

In context: CA median 74.9% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 241.0% · higher than 0% of CA HS.

UC Admit Rate ⓘ

N/A

None / 6 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 ⓘ

N/A

None enrollees / 192 seniors

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

39%

56 of 145 graduates · 2024-25 cohort

In context: CA median 55.9% · -17.3 pp vs. median · Placer Co. 67.3%.

Selective UC Reach (UCSD, UCSB, UCI, UCD) ⓘ

N/A

Elite UC Reach (UCB + UCLA) ⓘ

N/A

Senior Class Size ⓘ

192

CDE grade 12 (exact)

Total School Enrollment ⓘ

646

All grades · CDE Census Day

Avg. Applicant GPA · top-6 UCs ⓘ

3.79

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 Horizon Charter School

Campus	4.00+ GPA	3.70–3.99 GPA	3.30–3.69 GPA	< 3.30 GPA
UC Davis	Strong shot	Strong shot	Real shot	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 2025.

The numbers behind it

Campus	Applicant GPA	Admit GPA	Lift ⓘ	Admit rate	vs peer schools @ same GPA ⓘ
UC Davis (2024)	4.10	4.23	+0.13	54.5%	Peers +0.16 · matches

📊 Statewide CA admit rates by individual GPA band, 2025 (for reference)

GPA band	UCB	UCLA	UCSD	UCSB	UCI	UCD
4.00+	17.0%	15.1%	45.2%	62.3%	46.3%	65.9%
3.70–3.99	3.1%	1.6%	9.3%	17.6%	17.0%	31.1%
3.30–3.69	0.8%	0.5%	1.5%	2.8%	2.4%	10.3%
3.00–3.29	0.4%	0.3%	0.2%	0.4%	0.3%	1.9%
< 3.00	0.7%	0.4%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%	0.7%

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).

UC Outcomes Trend — 2020–2025

UC Admit Rate %

UC Reach % (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	Yield	Avg GPA (App)	Avg GPA (Adm)
UC Davis →	6	—^†	—^†	—^†	—^†	—	3.79	—^†

† = 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

A relatively small share of the senior class is entering the UC application pipeline. This may signal limited A-G completion, UC awareness gaps, or counseling capacity constraints. Broadening access is the highest-leverage opportunity for this school.

Note: admit counts used here are campus-level totals. A student admitted to both UCLA and UCSD is counted twice. When UCOP unique-student data becomes available it will be loaded automatically and the labels will update.

Compare with other schools → See Placer County rankings →

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