Oak Park Independent Sch
Oak Park · Ventura County · Public
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The High School At Moorpark College → Diane S. Leichman Career Preparatory And Transition Center → Conejo Valley High (continuation) → Monte Vista School → Stoney Point Continuation → Compare all similar →📋 At a glance
- ✅ Gifted & talented program
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 40% of US high schools
- 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 84% (Bottom 33% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
🎓 Where grads go
UC admits by campus · Class of 2025
Source: University of California Office of the President, Admissions by Source School. Full campus-by-campus breakdown below.
How Oak Park Independent Sch compares for families
Above-average college outcomes statewide.
- ▸ Statewide27.1% UC Reach — 9.0 points above the California median of 18.1%. Ahead of 69% of California high schools.
- ▸ Locally🎯 Top 5 in Ventura County on Attendance (lowest chronic absenteeism) — plus 1 more top-rank.
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsBeats the peer median (27.1% UC Reach vs 24.0% median) across the 5 most similar nearby schools.
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SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-21Source: 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 33% 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 (-0.7%/yr, Total enrollment)
At per-pupil funding of $ / student:
| Horizon | Projected Total enrollment | Change | Funding impact / yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 yr (2027) | ~137 | -1 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2029) | ~135 | -3 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2031) | ~133 | -5 | $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.
Oak Park Independent Sch — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot
Public · Oak Park · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools
- ▸On UC Reach, Oak Park Independent Sch sits near the top of its similar-school group (ranked #1 of 2): 27% vs. a peer median of 24%.
- ▸Its UC Reach has risen 13 points since 2024.
- ▸Across the top-6 UC campuses, Oak Park Independent Sch is admitting at roughly +19 percentage points above what its average applicant GPA (4.078) alone would predict (39% actual vs. 20% expected). That's a meaningful signal — it can reflect UC's track record with this school's graduates, students presenting strongly in UC's holistic review (essays, EC's, context), or institutional familiarity helping at the margin. The data can't distinguish which, but the pattern itself is real and worth understanding.
- ▸Senior-class enrollment is up 2% (43→44 from 2024 to 2026), outpacing the peer-group median of -27%.
- ▸At its recent rate (-0.7%/yr), enrollment projects to ~135 by 2029 — about 3 fewer students than today.
Enrollment projection
That's about 3 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 | Enroll. trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oak Park Independent Sch | Public | 138 | 27.1% | +2% |
| Peer-group median | 24.0% | -27% | ||
| The High School At Moorpark College | Public | 126 | — | -28% |
| Diane S. Leichman Career Preparatory And Transition Center | Public | 139 | — | -26% |
| Conejo Valley High (continuation) | Public | 91 | — | -24% |
| Monte Vista School | Public | 225 | — | -39% |
| Stoney Point Continuation | Public | 105 | — | -56% |
| Will Rogers Continuation | Public | 144 | — | -46% |
| Apollo High | Public | 76 | — | -63% |
| Magnolia Science Academy 5 | Public | 194 | 24.0% | +360% |
| River Oaks Academy | Public | 331 | — | +39% |
| Triton Academy | Public | 77 | — | -7% |
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. 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 Ventura County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.
Enrollment growth is beating Ventura County (+2.3% vs. -19.3%), but 43 of 171 students didn't maintain continuous enrollment. Why are families leaving once enrolled?
43 of 171 students who enrolled at Oak Park Independent Sch this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (25.1% 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.
Oak Park Independent Sch sent 40 applications to the six most selective University of California campuses and 32.5% were admitted, producing a UC Reach of 27.1% — 9.0 percentage points above the California median of 18.1%, higher than 69% of California high schools. The school produces 8.3 UCLA + UC Berkeley admits per 100 seniors.
+3.1 pp above peer median (24.0%) · Ranked #1 of 2 similar schools
18.1%
24.0%
51.2%
27.1%
Higher than 69% of California high schools (978 ranked, ≥50 seniors)
Oak Park Independent Sch's UC Reach of 27.1% is above the California median (18.1%). The top 10% of CA schools achieve 51.2% or higher.
For context, the elite tier (top 1%) clears 97.3% — a gap of 70 pp from where this school sits.
Overall, Oak Park Independent Sch's UC Reach is higher than 69% of California high schools (978 ranked).
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.
| Campus | 4.00+ GPA | 3.70–3.99 GPA | 3.30–3.69 GPA | < 3.30 GPA |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UC San Diego | Strong shot | Moderate | Long odds | Filtered out |
The numbers behind it
| Campus | Applicant GPA | Admit GPA | Lift ⓘ | Admit rate | vs peer schools @ same GPA ⓘ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UC San Diego | 4.09 | 4.23 | +0.14 | 71.4% | Peers +0.21 · wider |
📊 Statewide CA admit rates by individual GPA band, 2025 (for reference)
| GPA band | UCB | UCLA | UCSD | UCSB | UCI | UCD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4.00+ | 17.0% | 15.1% | 45.2% | 62.3% | 46.3% | 65.9% |
| 3.70–3.99 | 3.1% | 1.6% | 9.3% | 17.6% | 17.0% | 31.1% |
| 3.30–3.69 | 0.8% | 0.5% | 1.5% | 2.8% | 2.4% | 10.3% |
| 3.00–3.29 | 0.4% | 0.3% | 0.2% | 0.4% | 0.3% | 1.9% |
| < 3.00 | 0.7% | 0.4% | 0.3% | 0.2% | 0.1% | 0.7% |
Where Oak Park Independent Sch sits vs. all California schools ⓘ
Overall, this school admits its UC applicants 18.8 points above what their GPAs predict (39.4% actual vs. 20.5% expected).
UC Outcomes Trend — 2018–2025
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) | Avg GPA (Adm) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UC Berkeley → Elite | 7 | —† | —† | —† | —† | — | 4.09 | —† |
| UCLA → Elite | 16 | 4 | 3 | 25.0% | 8.3% | 75.0% | 4.05 | —† |
| UC San Diego → Selective | 7 | 5 | —† | 71.4% | 10.4% | — | 4.09 | 4.23 |
| UC Santa Barbara → Selective | 10 | 4 | —† | 40.0% | 8.3% | — | 4.11 | —† |
What This Means
For School Admins
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- ✓Student-retention benchmarking vs your county median — and the LCAP evidence to back your goals