Julia Lee Performing Arts Academy is a K-8 school.

It serves grades K-8 (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.

How Julia Lee Performing Arts Academy compares for families

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  • vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Sycamore Academy Of Science And Cultural Arts, Temecula International Academy, Temecula Valley Charter and 2 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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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.

Kids show up: 10% are chronically absent versus about 21% statewide — engagement most schools would envy.
Chronic absent
9.8%
45 of 458 students

Absenteeism is down 18.7 pp since 2018-19. Engagement improving — a positive trajectory worth understanding and reinforcing.

Riverside County median
27.1% · school is better than 87% of 124 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
166 (2019)410 (2026)
+147.0%

If this trend holds (+13.0%/yr, Total enrollment)

At per-pupil funding of $ / student:

Horizon Projected Total enrollment Change Funding impact / yr
1 yr (2027) ~463 +53 $0
3 yr (2029) ~591 +181 $0
5 yr (2031) ~754 +344 $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.

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Sycamore Academy Of Science And Cultural Arts · Temecula International Academy · Temecula Valley Charter · Garvey/Allen Visual & Performing Arts Academy For STEM · California Republic Leadership Academy Capistrano · Fallbrook STEM Academy · +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 Riverside County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.

85% of students who start the year here finish it here.
Stability rate
84.8%
396 of 467 students

71 of 467 students who enrolled at Julia Lee Performing Arts Academy this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (15.2% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.

Riverside County median
86.2% · school is in the 44th percentile of 124 HS
Statewide median
88.7% · in the 33rd percentile of 2,689 HS

Stability by student group

Socio. disadvantaged (331) 84.6%
Hispanic / Latino (315) 86.7%
Black / African Am. (68) 88.2%
Students w/ disabilities (67) 88.1%
English learners (57) 89.5%
White (55) 70.9%

Nearest peer high schools

Sycamore Academy Of Science And Cultural Arts 77.5% Temecula International Academy 87.8% Temecula Valley Charter 84.8% Garvey/Allen Visual & Performing Arts Academy For STEM 83.9% California Republic Leadership Academy Capistrano 85.5%

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 — Riverside County Office of Education (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
$363.9M
+7.7% since FY2017
Per-pupil revenue
$252,027
1,444 students enrolled
Revenue mix
State: 29.0%
Local: 51.2%
Federal: 19.8%
Instruction share
33.6%
of current spending · $44,434/pupil
Total revenue by year ($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 Riverside County Office of Education 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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