Loomis Basin Charter 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.

Loomis Basin Charter

Loomis · Placer County · Loomis Union Elementary · Public

Public Placer County Loomis Union Elementary → CDS 3166845…
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Top 5% Math proficiency in CA Top 4 ELA proficiency in Placer Top 4 Math proficiency in Placer Top 10% ELA proficiency in CA

At a glance

Academic signals
  • AP rigor: Bottom 6% of US high schools

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

How Loomis Basin Charter compares for families

What families should know about Loomis Basin Charter.

  • Locally🧮 Top 5% in California on Math proficiency — plus 3 more top-ranks.
  • vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Olympus Junior High, Willma Cavitt Junior High, Harvest Ridge Cooperative Charter 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.

College readiness

Getting ready for college

These come from the state and federal files, not from UC — so they are here whether or not Loomis Basin Charter has a UC admissions record.

Student-Counselor Ratio
Each counselor juggles about 1014 students — above the level experts recommend. Ask how junior-year college advising is handled.
1014:1
0.5 FTE counselors · 507 students
In context: CA median 337:1 · 677 more students per counselor · ASCA target 250:1.

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: 0% are chronically absent versus about 21% statewide — engagement most schools would envy.
Chronic absent
0.0%
0 of 518 students

Absenteeism is down 3.7 pp since 2016-17. Engagement improving — a positive trajectory worth understanding and reinforcing.

Placer County median
11.0% · school is better than 100% of 32 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
436 (2018)507 (2026)
+16.3%

If this trend holds (+1.7%/yr, Total enrollment)

At per-pupil funding of $ / student:

Horizon Projected Total enrollment Change Funding impact / yr
1 yr (2027) ~516 +9 $0
3 yr (2029) ~533 +26 $0
5 yr (2031) ~552 +45 $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.

How does Loomis Basin Charter really compare on getting kids to college?

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Your similar-school group includes

Olympus Junior High · Willma Cavitt Junior High · Harvest Ridge Cooperative Charter · Newcastle Charter · Bowman Charter · Maria Montessori Charter 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 Placer County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.

94% of students who start the year here finish it here.
Stability rate
94.4%
493 of 522 students

29 of 522 students who enrolled at Loomis Basin Charter this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (5.6% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.

Placer County median
92.4% · school is in the 64th percentile of 33 HS
Statewide median
88.7% · in the 83rd percentile of 2,689 HS

Stability by student group

White (364) 94.2%
Hispanic / Latino (64) 92.2%
Two or more races (60) 98.3%
Socio. disadvantaged (55) 90.9%
Students w/ disabilities (49) 93.9%
Asian (24) 100.0%

Nearest peer high schools

Olympus Junior High 95.8% Willma Cavitt Junior High 96.1% Harvest Ridge Cooperative Charter 96.6% Newcastle Charter 96.5% Bowman Charter 95.1%

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.

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