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Mt. Pleasant High

· Santa Clara County · East Side Union High · Public

Public Santa Clara County 🏛 East Side Union High → CDS 4369427…
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📚AP rigor: 82th percentile nationally 📖10 AP courses

📋 At a glance

Programs & features
  • 📚 10 AP courses offered — Elite
  • ✅ Dual-enrollment program (college credit while in HS)
  • 🔢 4 calculus classes · 7 physics · 14 chemistry
Academic signals
  • 🎓 AP rigor: 82th percentile nationally
  • 📝 SAT/ACT participation: 77th percentile by test-taker volume
  • 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 85% (Bottom 35% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)

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

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How Mt. Pleasant High compares for families

Stronger-than-average college-prep profile.

  • StatewideAP rigor in the top 18% nationally with 10 AP courses.
  • vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: San Jose High School, James Lick High School, William C. Overfelt High and 2 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.

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🎓 Academic rigor

AP + advanced-course offerings

Elite — exceptional AP + advanced course breadth

82th percentile nationally

50th 90th ↑ this school
Less rigorMore rigorMost rigor
AP courses offered
10
Math ✓ · Science ✓
Students taking AP courses
282
≈28 per 100 students · uptake, not just offerings
Advanced math classes
15
4 calculus · 11 advanced
Lab science classes
21
7 physics · 14 chemistry
Other rigor signals
✅ Dual-enrollment program

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 · 2020-21

77th percentile by test-taker volume

50th 90th
SAT/ACT test-takers
213
11th-12th graders who took 1+ college admissions test
Test-taking intensity
21.3
takers per 100 students in grades 9-12
Compared against
18,426
US high schools reporting SAT/ACT participation

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 35% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate

50th 90th
4-year graduation rate
85%
Single-point estimate
4-year cohort size
313
Students in the 9th-grade entry class tracked over 4 years
Compared against
17,988
US high schools reporting 4-year ACGR

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

Title I Schoolwide eligible

≥40% FRPL — qualifies for Title I Schoolwide program

62.5%
FRPL rate — % of students who qualify for the federal Free or Reduced-Price Lunch program. This is the underlying federal income-eligibility signal Title I designations are computed from (ESEA Sec. 1113).
0% (no FRPL) 35% TA · 40% Schoolwide 100% (universal FRPL)

40-74% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. The district can use Title I funds across the whole school under federal Schoolwide Program rules.

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.

ELA — met or exceeded
n = 236
50.9%
incl. 15.2% exceeded
-6.9 pts vs. Santa Clara County median (57.8%) · CA median 54.3% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 79.3%
Math — met or exceeded
n = 229
13.1%
incl. 3.9% exceeded
-18.1 pts vs. Santa Clara County median (31.2%) · CA median 21.1% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 53.6%

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

Hispanic / Latino 76% +1.0
Asian 13% -1.0
Filipino 4%
White 3%
Two or more 2%
Black / African Am. 1%
American Indian 1%
Pacific Islander 0%

Program subgroups

Students w/ disabilities 83% +18.5
English learners 26%
Socioeconomically disadv. 17%
Homeless 4% -2.5

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.

Chronic absent
25.5%
270 of 1,059 students

Absenteeism is up 14.2 pp since 2016-17. A rising absenteeism trend often precedes formal departure — worth investigating which subgroups are driving it.

Santa Clara County median
19.0% · school is worse than 57% of 58 HS
Statewide median
22.9%
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 (9–12)
1,292 (2018)931 (2026)
-27.9%
Grade 12 (graduating class)
325 (2018)277 (2026)
-14.8%

If this trend holds (-3.9%/yr, Total enrollment)

At per-pupil funding of $ / student:

Horizon Projected Total enrollment Change Funding impact / yr
1 yr (2027) ~895 -36 $0
3 yr (2029) ~826 -105 $0
5 yr (2031) ~763 -168 $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.

Mt. Pleasant High — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot

Public · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools

  • Senior-class enrollment is down 15% (325→277 from 2018 to 2026), trailing the peer-group median of -8%.
  • At its recent rate (-4.0%/yr), enrollment projects to ~823 by 2029 — about 108 fewer students than today.

Enrollment projection

931 students (2026)
~823 projected (2029)
at -4.0%/yr

That's about 108 fewer students. At per-student funding of $ per student, that's roughly $0 in annual state funding at risk.

Default = California's LCFF base grant for grades 9–12 ($12,423 per ADA) — adjust to your district's actual per-pupil 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 Score Enroll. trend
Mt. Pleasant High Public 931 -15%
Peer-group median 12 -8%
San Jose High School Public 904 8 -11%
James Lick High School Public 788 8 -9%
William C. Overfelt High Public 1357 12 -9%
Kathleen Macdonald High Public 852 +20100%
University Preparatory Academy Charter Public 731 +12%
Gunderson High Public 714 -24%
Oak Grove High School Public 1288 14 -21%
Yerba Buena High School Public 1555 34 -5%
Andrew P Hill High School Public 1497 12 -7%
Del Mar High School Public 1318 10 +22%

UC Reach Score = 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 Santa Clara County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.

Critical
Bleeding from both ends.

Enrollment down 14.8% vs. county -6.2%, AND stability (86.2%) below the county median. Fewer families are choosing the school, and the ones who do aren't staying through year-end.

-14.8%  school enrollment (2018–2026)
-6.2%  Santa Clara County baseline
-8.6pp  gap vs. county
86.2%  retention (county median 90.2%)
Enrollment — indexed to 100 at 2018
Stability rate by year (raw %)
Stability rate
86.2%
946 of 1,098 students

152 of 1,098 students who enrolled at Mt. Pleasant High this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (13.8% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.

Santa Clara County median
90.2% · school is in the 35th percentile of 60 HS
Statewide median
87.2% · in the 46th percentile of 1,688 HS

Stability by student group

Socio. disadvantaged (845) 85.1%
Hispanic / Latino (824) 85.1%
English learners (335) 78.2%
Students w/ disabilities (201) 78.1%
Asian (147) 92.5%
Filipino (45) 88.9%

Nearest peer high schools

San Jose High School 79.8% James Lick High School 81.8% William C. Overfelt High 86.1% Kathleen Macdonald High 89.5% University Preparatory Academy Charter 97.5%

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 — East Side 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.

Total revenue
$453.6M
+7.9% since FY2017
Per-pupil revenue
$20,168
22,488 students enrolled
Revenue mix
State: 41.2%
Local: 51.7%
Federal: 7.1%
Instruction share
56.9%
of current spending · $7,561/pupil
Long-term debt
$1053.0M
+14.5% since FY2017
Total revenue by year ($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 East Side 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).

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