Mayfield Senior School

Pasadena · Los Angeles County · Catholic religious-affiliated

Private Los Angeles County ~83 seniors

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⭐Top 10% UC Reach in California 📖18 AP courses 🎓Top 10% UC Reach in CA 🎓Top 10% UC Reach in Los Angeles

📋 At a glance

Programs & features

📚 18 AP courses offered (school profile)
🏆 3 National Merit Semifinalists last year

Academic signals

📝 SAT avg 1380 (25-75: 1320–1450)
📝 ACT avg 30.5 (25-75: 29–32)
📚 AP exam pass rate 80.0% (avg score 4.0)

Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, the school's own published profile, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.

🎓 Where grads go

61.4% UC Reach — top-6 UC admits per 100 seniors in the Class of 2025. Counts each campus admit, so multi-admits count more than once.

UC admits by campus · Class of 2025

UCB

9 admitted

3 enrolled

UCLA

6 admitted

3 enrolled

UCSD

10 admitted

UCSB

12 admitted

UCI

4 admitted

UCD

10 admitted

Source: University of California Office of the President, Admissions by Source School. Full campus-by-campus breakdown below.

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How Mayfield Senior School compares for families

Top-tier college outcomes for California families.

▸ Statewide61.4% UC Reach — 43.3 points above the California median of 18.1%. Ahead of 95% of California high schools.
▸ Locally🎓 Top 10% in California on UC Reach — plus 1 more top-rank.
▸ vs Similar SchoolsBeats the peer median (61.4% UC Reach vs 32.0% median) across the 5 most similar nearby schools.

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California's Smarter Balanced (CAASPP) assessment is administered by the state, by statute, to public & charter schools only. Private schools don't sit for it. That's why the SBAC card is missing on this profile — not a data gap on our side, a deliberate scope of the state's testing program.

For private schools, UC Reach is the stronger academic signal anyway. SBAC measures grade-11 inputs (proficiency on a state standard); UC Reach measures outputs (who actually got into the most selective UCs). For private-school families weighing tuition against college outcomes, the outputs are the relevant signal.

Scroll up to the UC Reach card for Mayfield Senior School's 2025 number, statewide percentile, and 5-year trend.

Enrollment trend & projection

Total enrollment (9–12)

333 (2020) → 310 (2025)

-6.9%

Grade 12 (graduating class)

77 (2020) → 83 (2025)

+7.8%

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

At tuition of $ / student:

Horizon	Projected Total enrollment	Change	Tuition impact / yr
1 yr (2026)	~305	-5	$0
3 yr (2028)	~294	-16	$0
5 yr (2030)	~284	-26	$0

Straight-line extrapolation of the recent annual rate — a what-if, not a forecast of intent. Edit the figure to match your school.

Mayfield Senior School — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot

Private · Catholic · Pasadena · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools

▸On UC Reach, Mayfield Senior School sits near the top of its similar-school group (ranked #1 of 10): 61% vs. a peer median of 32%.
▸Mayfield Senior School's UC Reach has stepped down from a peak of 68% in 2024 to 61% in 2025 — a 6-point decline worth tracking.
▸Senior-class enrollment is up 8% (77→83 from 2020 to 2025), outpacing the peer-group median of +3%.
▸At its recent rate (-1.4%/yr), enrollment projects to ~297 by 2028 — about 13 fewer students than today.

Enrollment projection

310 students (2025)

→

~297 projected (2028)

at -1.4%/yr

That's about 13 fewer students. At a tuition of $ per student, that's roughly $0 in annual tuition revenue at risk.

Estimate seeded by catholic private school typical — Catholic HS typical $10k–18k. NCES doesn't publish per-school tuition; adjust to your school's actual 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
Mayfield Senior School	Private · Catholic	310	61.4%	+8%
Peer-group median			32.0%	+3%
Ramona Convent Secondary Sch	Private · Catholic	296	42.4%	+31%
Sacred Heart High School	Private · Catholic	317	39.2%	+40%
Glendale Adventist Academy	Private · Other religious	313	—	+38%
San Gabriel Academy	Private · Other religious	320	28.6%	-44%
Don Bosco Technical Institute	Private · Catholic	351	34.3%	-30%
Bishop Conaty Our Lady Loretto	Private · Catholic	284	35.8%	+10%
Waverly School	Private · secular	300	32.0%	-32%
Cantwell/Sacred Heart Mary Hs	Private · Catholic	378	14.9%	-4%
Verbum Dei High School	Private · Catholic	298	21.1%	-20%
Pilgrim School	Private · secular	320	27.8%	+90%

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, and religious orientation. Methodology →

Diocesan context — Archdiocese of Los Angeles

Archdiocese

Counties covered

Los Angeles, Ventura, Santa Barbara

Schools operated (K–12)

~210

approx; from diocesan reports

Other Catholic HS tracked

in this diocese, on this site

Largest Catholic school system in the U.S. Archdiocese of Los Angeles is the canonical governance body for Catholic schools in this region — board policy, tuition guidance, and shared services typically originate here. Visit the diocesan website →

Financial figures aren't shown because Catholic (arch)dioceses don't file IRS Form 990 — they're covered by the USCCB Group Ruling (GEN 0928), which exempts dioceses, parishes, and parochial schools from individual filing. School counts above are hand-compiled from each diocese's published schools-department information.

📊 Key takeaway · Class of 2025

Mayfield Senior School sent 219 applications to the six most selective University of California campuses and 23.3% were admitted, producing a UC Reach of 61.4% — 43.3 percentage points above the California median of 18.1%, higher than 95% of California high schools. The school produces 18.1 UCLA + UC Berkeley admits per 100 seniors.

University of California outcomes · Class of 2025

★ Top 10% UC Reach

UC Reach ⓘ

61%

51 admits / 83 seniors
+29.4 pp above peer median (32.0%) · Ranked #1 of 10 similar schools

5-year trend

2021 · 41.5% 2025 · 61.4%

Where this sits on the California curve

CA median
18.1%

Peer median
32.0%

Top 10%
51.2%

This school
61.4%

0%50%100%

CA median 18.1% Top 10% ≥ 51.2% This school 61.4%

Higher than 95% of California high schools (978 ranked, ≥50 seniors)

📊 What this number means

Mayfield Senior School's UC Reach of 61.4% clears the statewide top-10% cutoff (51.2%) — meaning roughly 61 top-6 UC admits per 100 seniors, well above what most California schools achieve.

Against similar schools, Mayfield Senior School stands out clearly — the peer-group median is 32.0%.

For context, the elite tier (top 1%) clears 97.3% — a gap of 36 pp from where this school sits.

Overall, Mayfield Senior School's UC Reach is higher than 95% of California high schools (978 ranked).

UC Application Reach ⓘ

263.9%

219 applications

Strong UC pursuit. The typical senior is applying to about 3 top-6 UC campuses — a signal of a college-driven student body.

In context: CA median 74.9% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 241.0% · Los Angeles Co. Top 10% ≥ 252.0% · higher than 92% of CA HS.

UC Admit Rate ⓘ

23.3%

51 / 219 applications

In context: CA median 26.1% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 40.5% · higher than 34% of CA HS.

UC Yield Rate ⓘ

11.8%

6 enrolled of 51 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 ⓘ

7.2%

6 enrollees / 83 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.

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

49.4

per 100 seniors · campus-level total

In context: CA median 15.4 · Top 10% statewide ≥ 41.5 · higher than 95% of CA HS.

Elite UC Reach (UCB + UCLA) ⓘ

18.1

per 100 seniors · campus-level total

In context: CA median 3.3 · Top 10% statewide ≥ 9.7 · higher than 98% of CA HS.

Senior Class Size ⓘ

Private School Affidavit

Total School Enrollment ⓘ

310

All grades · Private School Affidavit

Private-school figures come from the California Private School Affidavit. Per CDE, inclusion in private-school data is not an evaluation, approval, or endorsement of a school.

Avg. Applicant GPA · top-6 UCs ⓘ

3.95

Avg. Admitted GPA · top-6 UCs ⓘ

4.20

GPA figures reflect 2024 — UC has not yet released applicant/admit GPA for 2025.

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 Mayfield Senior School

Campus	4.00+ GPA	3.70–3.99 GPA	3.30–3.69 GPA	< 3.30 GPA
UC Berkeley	Real shot	Long odds	Filtered out	Filtered out
UCLA	Real shot	Long odds	Filtered out	Filtered out
UC San Diego	Strong shot	Real shot	Long odds	Filtered out
UC Santa Barbara	Strong shot	Moderate	Long odds	Filtered out
UC Irvine	Strong shot	Real shot	Long odds	Filtered out
UC Davis	Strong shot	Real shot	Moderate	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 2024.

The numbers behind it

Campus	Applicant GPA	Admit GPA	Lift ⓘ	Admit rate	vs peer schools @ same GPA ⓘ
UC Berkeley	3.98	4.28	+0.31	17.1%	Peers +0.23 · steeper
UCLA	3.93	4.27	+0.34	13.2%	Peers +0.30 · steeper
UC San Diego	3.94	4.24	+0.31	22.0%	Peers +0.28 · matches
UC Santa Barbara	3.99	4.24	+0.24	38.9%	Peers +0.26 · matches
UC Irvine	3.92	3.98	+0.07	21.9%	Peers +0.25 · wider
UC Davis	3.92	4.14	+0.23	41.7%	Peers +0.24 · matches

📊 Statewide CA admit rates by individual GPA band, 2024 (for reference)

GPA band	UCB	UCLA	UCSD	UCSB	UCI	UCD
4.00+	17.1%	14.4%	43.5%	57.3%	46.0%	64.1%
3.70–3.99	2.8%	1.5%	11.2%	9.2%	16.5%	27.5%
3.30–3.69	0.8%	0.9%	1.4%	2.3%	3.4%	9.1%
3.00–3.29	0.5%	0.4%	0.1%	0.5%	0.4%	2.1%
< 3.00	0.6%	0.2%	0.2%	0.5%	0.3%	0.6%

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).

Where Mayfield Senior School sits vs. all California schools ⓘ

Overall, this school admits its UC applicants in line with what their GPAs predict (23.8% actual vs. 20.2% expected), based on 2024 data.

UC Outcomes Trend — 2018–2025

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) '24	Avg GPA (Adm) '24
UC Berkeley → Elite	37	9	3	24.3%	10.8%	33.3%	3.98	4.28
UCLA → Elite	47	6	3	12.8%	7.2%	50.0%	3.93	4.27
UC San Diego → Selective	40	10	—^†	25.0%	12.0%	—	3.94	4.24
UC Santa Barbara → Selective	46	12	—^†	26.1%	14.5%	—	3.99	4.24
UC Irvine → Selective	24	4	—^†	16.7%	4.8%	—	3.92	3.98
UC Davis →	25	10	—^†	40.0%	12.0%	—	3.92	4.14

† = 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 large share of the senior class applies to UC, indicating strong college-going culture and UC pipeline development.

A large share of the class applies to UC, so the admit rate runs lower than the application volume alone might suggest — expected when many students apply broadly, including to reach campuses. UC Reach (which credits every admit relative to the class) is the truer read of how the class fares: a strong Reach alongside a moderate admit rate is healthy, not a contradiction.

UC Reach is very strong — more than 61% of seniors are earning UC admission. This places the school among California's highest-performing high schools on this metric.

Strong UC Reach paired with very low yield: this school's students are earning UC admission at high rates and then enrolling elsewhere — almost certainly at the most selective private universities (Ivies, Stanford, MIT, the top liberal-arts colleges) or elite out-of-state flagships. UC is functioning as a credentialing-grade backup rather than a destination.

The school generates broad UC access, but fewer students are reaching the most selective UC campuses (UCLA, Berkeley, UCSD, UCSB, UCI). Targeted academic enrichment and campus-fit advising may help.

Berkeley and UCLA admit volume is strong — a clear high-end signal for this school's academic preparation.

UC Reach has declined meaningfully year-over-year. This should be reviewed in context of applicant volume, GPA trends, course rigor changes, and peer-school performance before drawing conclusions.

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.

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