Notre Dame High School
San Jose · Santa Clara County · Private independent
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- The UC pipeline here is real. 155 admissions to the top six UC campuses for a class of 165 seniors puts this school in the top handful of schools in California.
- Elite admits are rare — here and everywhere. Berkeley and UCLA admitted 19 of this class's 559 UC applications. The strong middle campuses — San Diego, Santa Barbara, Irvine, Davis — are where most real UC outcomes happen.
- Worth asking admissions: the school profile. This school doesn't publish SAT/ACT or AP results publicly. Every private school produces a counselor's "school profile" for colleges — ask for it. How a school answers says as much as the numbers.
Composed from this page's data — every claim is backed by a number in the sections below.
Where grads go — and what it costs & pays
UC admits by campus · Class of 2025
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How Notre Dame High School compares for families
One of California's strongest schools for college outcomes.
- ▸ StatewideUC Reach Score of 94 — 75 points above the California median of 19. Ahead of 99% of California high schools.
- ▸ Locally🎓 Top 5% in California on UC Reach — plus 1 more top-rank.
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsOther schools in the county, closest in size: Oakwood School, Presentation High School, BASIS Independent Silicon Valley and 2 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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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 Notre Dame High School's 2025 number, statewide percentile, and 5-year trend.
Notre Dame High School sent 559 applications to the six most selective University of California campuses and 27.7% were admitted, producing a UC Reach Score of 94 (top-6 UC admits per 100 seniors, counting a student at each campus that admitted them) — 75 points above the California median of 19, higher than 99% of California high schools. The school produces 11.5 UCLA + UC Berkeley admits per 100 seniors.
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Higher than 99% of California high schools (1107 ranked, ≥50 seniors)
Notre Dame High School's UC Reach Score of 94 clears the statewide top-10% cutoff (53) — meaning roughly 93 top-6 UC admits per 100 seniors, well above what most California schools achieve.
In Santa Clara County — a competitive market where the median is already 33 — this still clears the county top-10% bar (84).
For context, the elite tier (top 1%) clears 95 — a gap of 1 pp from where this school sits.
Overall, Notre Dame High School's UC Reach is higher than 99% of California high schools (1107 ranked).
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.
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 | 85 | 10 | 5 | 11.8% | 6 | 50.0% | — | —† |
| UCLA → Elite | 95 | 9 | 4 | 9.5% | 5 | 44.4% | — | —† |
| UC San Diego → Selective | 96 | 21 | 6 | 21.9% | 13 | 28.6% | — | —† |
| UC Santa Barbara → Selective | 93 | 50 | 6 | 53.8% | 30 | 12.0% | — | —† |
| UC Irvine → Selective | 95 | 28 | 3 | 29.5% | 17 | 10.7% | — | —† |
| UC Davis → | 95 | 37 | —† | 38.9% | 22 | — | — | —† |
What This Means
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