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Language Academy

· San Diego County · San Diego Unified · Public

Public San Diego County 🏛 San Diego Unified → CDS 3768338…
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📋 At a glance

Programs & features
Academic signals
  • 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 6% of US high schools

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

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How Language Academy compares for families

What families should know about Language Academy.

  • vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: La Mesa Arts Academy, Gompers Preparatory Academy, Canyon Hills High School and 2 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.

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SAT / ACT participation

CRDC federal data · 2020-21
SAT/ACT test-takers
0
11th-12th graders who took 1+ college admissions test

Source: 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.

Chronic absent
13.5%
138 of 1,020 students

Absenteeism is up 4.3 pp since 2016-17. A rising absenteeism trend often precedes formal departure — worth investigating which subgroups are driving it.

San Diego County median
18.9% · school is better than 67% of 205 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
998 (2018)1,065 (2026)
+6.7%

If this trend holds (+0.2%/yr, Total enrollment)

At per-pupil funding of $ / student:

Horizon Projected Total enrollment Change Funding impact / yr
1 yr (2027) ~1,068 +3 $0
3 yr (2029) ~1,073 +8 $0
5 yr (2031) ~1,078 +13 $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.

Language Academy — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot

Public · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools

  • Enrollment has been growing (+0.8%/yr); projects to ~1091 by 2029.

Enrollment projection

1065 students (2026)
~1091 projected (2029)
at +0.8%/yr

Your school vs. its 10 most similar nearby schools

School Type Size UC Reach Enroll. trend
Language Academy Public 1065
Peer-group median 16.5% +14%
La Mesa Arts Academy Public 997
Gompers Preparatory Academy Public 1154 47.4% +26%
Canyon Hills High School Public 1160 20.6% -26%
Crawford High School Public 1361 21.4% +22%
Parkway Sports And Health Science Academy Public 879
Mount Miguel High School Public 1495 11.3% +42%
Lincoln High Public 1444 12.4% +6%
Monte Vista High Public 1467 7.8% +4%
Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, And Math Academy At La Presa Public 742
Flying Hills School Of Arts Public 749

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

Stability rate
97.3%
1,001 of 1,029 students

28 of 1,029 students who enrolled at Language Academy this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (2.7% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.

San Diego County median
88.7% · school is in the 97th percentile of 207 HS
Statewide median
88.7% · in the 97th percentile of 2,648 HS

Stability by student group

Hispanic / Latino (554) 98.2%
Socio. disadvantaged (474) 96.2%
White (254) 96.9%
Students w/ disabilities (147) 94.6%
English learners (122) 96.7%
Black / African Am. (98) 93.9%

Nearest peer high schools

La Mesa Arts Academy 94.9% Gompers Preparatory Academy 96.4% Canyon Hills High School 88.3% Crawford High School 83.1% Parkway Sports And Health Science Academy 86.7%

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 — San Diego 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.

Total revenue
$2239.7M
+17.1% since FY2017
Per-pupil revenue
$22,861
97,968 students enrolled
Revenue mix
State: 24.2%
Local: 65.2%
Federal: 10.6%
Instruction share
58.6%
of current spending · $9,592/pupil
Long-term debt
$5186.5M
+29.3% since FY2017
Total revenue by year ($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 San Diego 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).

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