Mountain View High School
Mountain View · Santa Clara County · Mountain View-Los Altos Union High · Public
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- Where graduates go: #6 feeder school to UCLA; top 10 for UC Berkeley and Cal Poly SLO. Mountain View High School's own list (CLASS of 2020, 2021, 2022), enrolled: San Jose State (60), University of California: Santa Barbara (55), University of California: Berkeley (34), University of California: Davis (29), University of California: Santa Cruz (29). Feeder standing: #2 UC Santa Barbara, #3 UC Davis, #4 Loyola Marymount University, #4 Chapman, #6 UCLA, #10 UC Berkeley.
- The UC pipeline here is real. 310 admissions to the top six UC campuses for a class of 609 seniors puts this school in roughly the top 11% of California high schools.
- The UC surprise: most admits from the middle campuses — most enrollments at Berkeley. The middle campuses said yes far more often — 257 of this class's 310 UC admits came from San Diego, Santa Barbara, Irvine, and Davis. But the campus grads chose most is Berkeley: 20 of its 30 admits took the seat. Those offers are rare — and when kids from here win one, they keep it.
- Families don't leave. 95% of students who start the year here finish it here — top-tier retention statewide. Kids stay; that tells you something no test score does.
- One question for any counselor: who should still test? Plenty of strong students skip the SAT/ACT now — but merit scholarships at dozens of colleges still key off scores. Ask how the school decides who should still sit for one.
Composed from this page's data — every claim is backed by a number in the sections below.
Where graduates go — as published by the school
Mountain View High School publishes where its graduates enrolled (CLASS of 2020, 2021, 2022): 195 colleges with per-college counts — the largest counts enrolled at San Jose State (60), University of California: Santa Barbara (55), University of California: Berkeley (34). See the full list ↓
Feeder standing #6 to University of California-Los Angeles, #10 to University of California-Berkeley, #10 to Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, #2 to University of California-Santa Barbara — from its own published counts, ranked per class year
At a glance
- 26 AP courses offered — Elite
- Dual-enrollment program (college credit while in HS)
- 2 calculus classes · 17 physics · 19 chemistry
- AP rigor: 86th percentile nationally
- SAT/ACT participation: 88th percentile by test-taker volume
- 4-yr grad rate: 90% in 2019 (Bottom 49% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts graduation data, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
Their published matriculation list
Where the CLASS of 2020, 2021, 2022 enrolled
Mountain View High School publishes where its graduates enrolled. What follows is copied from that document — 195 colleges, ordered by the number of students enrolled.
The ten largest counts, enrolled · CLASS of 2020, 2021, 2022
Is my kid's college on this list?
The school down the road: Homestead High School
| College | Mountain View High School | Homestead High School |
|---|---|---|
| Boston College | ✓ named | ✓ named |
| Boston University | ✓ named | ✓ named |
| Brown University | ✓ named | ✓ named |
| Carnegie Mellon University | — | ✓ named |
| Columbia University | ✓ named | ✓ named |
| Cornell University | — | ✓ named |
| Dartmouth College | ✓ named | ✓ named |
| Duke University | ✓ named | ✓ named |
| Emory University | — | ✓ named |
| Georgetown University | ✓ named | ✓ named |
| Georgia Institute of Technology | — | ✓ named |
| Harvard University | ✓ named | ✓ named |
Both schools print names, not counts, so this shows which selective colleges each list names.
All 195 colleges, as the document prints them
College · Students
and 165 more
These graduates went on to the colleges above.
Check your kid's odds at these colleges →We'll load the 10 colleges the class chose most often — add your name, email and your child's numbers and we'll see where your child lands at each.
Independently verified As published by Mountain View High School — MVHS School Profile 2022-2023 ↗. Found at: Page 2, table headed “3-YEAR COLLEGE MATRICULATION - CLASS of 2020, 2021, 2022”, four sections: “4 Year Instututions - Out of State - 447”, “California State Un.
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Where grads go — and what it costs & pays
UC admits by campus · Class of 2025
Getting in is step one. The cost above is the average aid-receiving family's net price — yours depends on whether you qualify for aid — and your child's odds depend on their GPA + scores. See your family's real numbers at these campuses:
Get my child's odds + our real costs →Sources: UC Office of the President (admits); IPEDS net price + College Scorecard 10-yr earnings (cost & payoff). Full campus-by-campus breakdown below.
California College-Going Rate
82.9% of the 2022-23 graduating class enrolled in college within a year.
The share of 2022-23 graduates who enrolled at a college anywhere in the U.S. within 12 months, per the National Student Clearinghouse match the California Department of Education publishes.
Give the same class four more months and 86% had enrolled — CDE publishes a 16-month window alongside the 12-month one, 484 students.
Up 1.5 points from the 2021-22 class (81.4%).
Where the 2022-23 class enrolled
In California — 300 students (53.3%)
Out of state — 167 students (29.7%)
CDE puts each graduate in one bucket only — whichever kind of college they were enrolled in longest — so these add up to the rate above. That is a different count from the UC Reach Score on this page, which counts a student at every UC campus that admitted them.
Source: California Department of Education, College-Going Rate (DataQuest) ↗, cohort 2022-23, posted 17-Sep-2025. Data file: cgr12mo23.txt ↗ (and the 16-month file ↗). CDE builds the rate by matching California high school completers to National Student Clearinghouse enrollment records; we publish CDE’s aggregates and hold no student-level data.
How Mountain View High School compares for families
Top-tier college outcomes for California families.
- ▸ StatewideUC Reach Score of 51 — 32 points above the California median of 19. Ahead of 89% of California high schools.
- ▸ Locally🧮 Top 5% in California on Math proficiency — plus 3 more top-ranks.
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsTrails the peer median (UC Reach Score 51 vs a 70 median) across the 5 most similar nearby schools.
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Academic rigor
AP + advanced-course offerings
Elite — exceptional AP + advanced course breadth
86th percentile nationally
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). CRDC reports what's offered + enrolled — it doesn't collect AP exam pass rates (College Board owns that data and doesn't release it school-level).
SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-2188th percentile by test-taker volume
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.
4-year graduation rate · federal EDFacts
What % of students graduate on time?
Bottom 49% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate
Source: federal EDFacts ACGR (Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate), 2019 vintage via Urban Institute. EDFacts publishes a range (low-high) to preserve privacy on small cohorts; we display the midpoint.
Federal Title I context
Lower-need school
Not Title I eligible (FRPL < 25%)
<25% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. Well below the Title I threshold; expect a higher-income student body on average.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, free/reduced-price lunch eligibility. The actual Title I designation is a district decision and may differ from eligibility — but the federal eligibility math is what we show here. We don't claim to assert whether the district formally chose to enroll this school in Title I.
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.
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
Program subgroups
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.
Low and stable absenteeism — students are engaged and showing up. The leading indicator is healthy.
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
If this trend holds (-1.4%/yr, Total enrollment)
At per-pupil funding of $ / student:
| Horizon | Projected Total enrollment | Change | Funding impact / yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 yr (2027) | ~2,142 | -31 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2029) | ~2,082 | -91 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2031) | ~2,024 | -149 | $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 Mountain View High School really compare on getting kids to college?
We've ranked it #8 of 10 most similar nearby schools on UC Reach. Unlock the full snapshot to see the head-to-head — who's ahead, by how much, and where it's heading.
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Homestead High School · Los Altos High · Fremont High · Cupertino High School · Menlo Atherton High School · Monta Vista High School · +4 more
Enrollment stability & demand — 2024-25
Two complementary signals: retention (do students stay once enrolled?) and demand (are families choosing the school?). Read against the Santa Clara County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.
Mountain View High School is shrinking (-12.7%) but Santa Clara County is shrinking faster (-16.8%), so Mountain View High School is winning roughly 4.1 pp of relative market share. Combined with 94.8% stability (county median 90.4%), this reflects a school that families actively chose during a market contraction. Replicable model — worth documenting what's working.
117 of 2,252 students who enrolled at Mountain View High School this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (5.2% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.
Stability by student group
Nearest peer high schools
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 — Mountain View-Los Altos Union High (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.
Local: 86.6%
Federal: 2.1%
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 Mountain View-Los Altos Union High 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).
Mountain View High School sent 1,571 applications to the six most selective University of California campuses and 19.7% were admitted, producing a UC Reach Score of 51 (top-6 UC admits per 100 seniors, counting a student at each campus that admitted them) — 32 points above the California median of 19, higher than 89% of California high schools. The school produces 8.7 UCLA + UC Berkeley admits per 100 seniors.
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Higher than 89% of California high schools (1105 ranked, ≥50 seniors)
Mountain View High School's UC Reach Score of 51 is in the top quartile statewide (median 19; top 25% bar 33) — but it's still below the top-10% bar of 53.
Against similar schools, Mountain View High School trails the peer-group median (70) — even though it looks strong vs. the state average.
For context, the elite tier (top 1%) clears 95 — a gap of 44 pp from where this school sits.
Overall, Mountain View High School's UC Reach is higher than 89% of California high schools (1105 ranked).
UC Outcomes Trend — 2018–2025
Class size from CDE grade 12 enrollment. Campus-level data: applicant and admit totals count a student once at EACH campus. A senior admitted to UCLA and UC San Diego adds 2 to the admit total, so the total can exceed the senior class — that is the metric working as defined, not an error. The admit RATE is unaffected: both its numerator and denominator are campus-level.
Campus Breakdown — 2025
| Campus | Applicants | Admits | Enrollees | Admit Rate | UC Reach Score | Yield | Avg GPA (App) | Avg GPA (Adm) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UC Berkeley → Elite | 251 | 30 | 20 | 12.0% | 5 | 66.7% | — | —† |
| UCLA → Elite | 261 | 23 | 8 | 8.8% | 4 | 34.8% | — | —† |
| UC San Diego → Selective | 281 | 57 | 17 | 20.3% | 9 | 29.8% | — | —† |
| UC Santa Barbara → Selective | 270 | 80 | 10 | 29.6% | 13 | 12.5% | — | —† |
| UC Irvine → Selective | 243 | 52 | 6 | 21.4% | 9 | 11.5% | — | —† |
| UC Davis → | 265 | 68 | 9 | 25.7% | 11 | 13.2% | — | —† |
What This Means
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At a glance
JSON · Using this page with an AI assistantMountain View High School is a public high school in Mountain View, Santa Clara County, California with 609 seniors in the Class of 2025.
Its UC Reach Score is 51 (Strong, top 10% in California): 310 UC admits (counted at each UC) from a senior class of 609, so a student admitted to several campuses counts at each. That is higher than 89% of California high schools.
In 2025 its students filed 1,571 UC applications and received 310 offers, a UC admit rate of 19.7% (counted at each campus); 70 enrolled.
More of its graduates enrolled at UC Berkeley than at any other UC campus (20 in 2025); UC Berkeley and UCLA together admitted 53.
83% of its graduates completed the A-G courses required for UC and CSU eligibility (California median 56%).
83% of its 2022-23 graduates enrolled in college within 12 months (California Department of Education College-Going Rate).
It has about 272 students per school counselor.
Enrollment was 2,173 students in 2026, down 6% since 2022.
Mountain View High School publishes a matriculation list (where its graduates enrolled) for the CLASS of 2020, 2021, 2022: 195 colleges, with per-college counts; the largest counts are San Jose State (60), University of California: Santa Barbara (55), University of California: Berkeley (34), University of California: Davis (29), University of California: Santa Cruz (29). Source: MVHS School Profile 2022-2023.
Mountain View High School's feeder standing, from the schools' own published counts: #2 UC Santa Barbara, #3 UC Davis, #4 Loyola Marymount University, #4 Chapman, #6 UCLA, #10 UC Berkeley.
Sources: University of California Office of the President (admissions), California Department of Education (enrollment, A-G, college-going), and the school's own published documents where named.
Questions families ask
What is Mountain View High School's UC Reach Score? Mountain View High School's UC Reach Score is 51 (Strong, top 10% in California): 310 UC admits (counted at each UC) from a senior class of 609, so a student admitted to several campuses counts at each. That is higher than 89% of California high schools.
How many students from Mountain View High School got into a UC? In 2025 its students filed 1,571 UC applications and received 310 offers, a UC admit rate of 19.7% (counted at each campus); 70 enrolled.
Which UC campus do Mountain View High School graduates attend most? More of Mountain View High School's graduates enrolled at UC Berkeley than at any other UC campus (20 in 2025); UC Berkeley and UCLA together admitted 53.
What percentage of Mountain View High School graduates complete the A-G requirements? 83% of its graduates completed the A-G courses required for UC and CSU eligibility (California median 56%).
What percentage of Mountain View High School graduates go to college? 83% of its 2022-23 graduates enrolled in college within 12 months (California Department of Education College-Going Rate).
Where do Mountain View High School graduates go to college? Mountain View High School publishes a matriculation list (where its graduates enrolled) for the CLASS of 2020, 2021, 2022: 195 colleges, with per-college counts; the largest counts are San Jose State (60), University of California: Santa Barbara (55), University of California: Berkeley (34), University of California: Davis (29), University of California: Santa Cruz (29). Source: MVHS School Profile 2022-2023.
Which colleges is Mountain View High School a top feeder school to? Mountain View High School's feeder standing, from the schools' own published counts: #2 UC Santa Barbara, #3 UC Davis, #4 Loyola Marymount University, #4 Chapman, #6 UCLA, #10 UC Berkeley.
Analysis: Test Prep Gurus (High School Reach, highschoolreach.com). These figures may be quoted with attribution to Test Prep Gurus.
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