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- Where graduates go, as the school itself publishes it. Preuss School UCSD publishes where its graduates go (2010-2025): 84 colleges, including Amherst College, Boston College, Bowdoin College, Brown University.
- The UC pipeline here is real. 99 admissions to the top six UC campuses for a class of 115 seniors puts this school in the top handful of schools in California.
- Families don't leave. 96% of students who start the year here finish it here — top-tier retention statewide. Kids stay; that tells you something no test score does.
- 8 in 10 graduates leave eligible for UC and CSU. 85% finish the A-G courses California's universities require before a student can even apply — most California schools manage about 6 in 10.
- 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
Preuss School UCSD publishes its college acceptances (2010-2025): 84 colleges. See the full list ↓
Their published college acceptances
College acceptances
Preuss School UCSD publishes the colleges that admitted its graduates. What follows is copied from that document — 84 colleges, in the document's own order.
Years, as the document states them
2010-2025
Ivy+ and most selective · 10
Brown University · Columbia University · Cornell University · Dartmouth College · Duke University · Harvard University · Princeton University · Stanford University · University of Pennsylvania · Yale University
University of California · 9
UC Berkeley · UC Davis · UC Irvine · UC Los Angeles · UC Merced · UC Riverside · UC San Diego · UC Santa Barbara · UC Santa Cruz
Cal State · 6
CSU Cal Poly Pomona · CSU Cal Poly San Luis Obispo · San Diego State University · San Francisco State University · San Jose State University · Sonoma State University
Other California · 23
Claremont McKenna College · CSU Channel Islands · CSU Chico · CSU Dominguez Hills · CSU East Bay · CSU Long Beach · CSU Los Angeles · CSU Northridge · CSU Sacramento · CSU San Marcos · CSU Stanislaus · Harvey Mudd College · Pitzer College · Point Loma Nazarene University · and 9 more below
Out of state · 27
Amherst College · Bates College · Boston College · Bowdoin College · Brigham Young University · Clark-Atlanta University · College of the Holy Cross · Colorado College · Denison University · Emory University · Georgetown University · Johns Hopkins University · Lehigh University · New York University · and 13 more below
Not matched to a college page · 9
Cal Lutheran · CSU Bakersfield · CSU Humboldt · CSU Maritime Academy · CSU San Bernardino · CSU San Jose · Mills College · Mount St. Mary's College · Washington State University in St. Louis
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The school down the road: La Jolla High
| College | Preuss School UCSD | La Jolla High |
|---|---|---|
| Boston College | ✓ named | — |
| Brown University | ✓ named | — |
| Columbia University | ✓ named | — |
| Cornell University | ✓ named | — |
| Dartmouth College | ✓ named | ✓ named |
| Duke University | ✓ named | — |
| Emory University | ✓ named | — |
| Georgetown University | ✓ named | — |
| Harvard University | ✓ named | ✓ named |
| Johns Hopkins University | ✓ named | — |
| New York University | ✓ named | ✓ named |
| Princeton University | ✓ named | — |
Both schools print names, not counts, so this shows which selective colleges each list names.
All 84 colleges, as the document prints them
and 54 more
These graduates were admitted to the colleges above.
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Independently verified As published by Preuss School UCSD — School Profile 2025-2026 ↗. Found at: Page 3, full-page two-column list under the heading "Colleges Accepting Preuss Graduates 2010-2025".
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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
92.9% 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 92.9% had enrolled — CDE publishes a 16-month window alongside the 12-month one, 92 students.
Up 6.2 points from the 2021-22 class (86.7%).
Where the 2022-23 class enrolled
In California — 86 students (86.9%)
Out of state — 6 students (6.1%)
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 Preuss School UCSD compares for families
One of California's strongest schools for college outcomes.
- ▸ StatewideUC Reach Score of 86 — 67 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 SchoolsBeats the peer median (UC Reach Score 86 vs a 26 median) across the 5 most similar nearby schools.
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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.
Absenteeism is up 10.4 pp since 2016-17. A rising absenteeism trend often precedes formal departure — worth investigating which subgroups are driving it.
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 (-0.0%/yr, Total enrollment)
At per-pupil funding of $ / student:
| Horizon | Projected Total enrollment | Change | Funding impact / yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 yr (2027) | ~825 | +0 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2029) | ~824 | -1 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2031) | ~823 | -2 | $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 Preuss School UCSD really compare on getting kids to college?
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Enrollment stability & demand — 2024-25
Two complementary signals: retention (do students stay once enrolled?) and demand (are families choosing the school?). Read against the San Diego County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.
Preuss School UCSD outperformed San Diego County on enrollment (school +17.3% vs. county -6.9%) AND maintains 96.0% stability. Replicable model — worth documenting what's working.
19 of 477 students who enrolled at Preuss School UCSD this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (4.0% 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 — San Diego Unified (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: 65.2%
Federal: 10.6%
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 San Diego Unified 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).
Preuss School UCSD sent 358 applications to the six most selective University of California campuses and 27.7% were admitted, producing a UC Reach Score of 86 (top-6 UC admits per 100 seniors, counting a student at each campus that admitted them) — 67 points above the California median of 19, higher than 99% of California high schools. The school produces 17.4 UCLA + UC Berkeley admits per 100 seniors.
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Higher than 99% of California high schools (1105 ranked, ≥50 seniors)
Preuss School UCSD's UC Reach Score of 86 clears the statewide top-10% cutoff (53) — meaning roughly 86 top-6 UC admits per 100 seniors, well above what most California schools achieve.
For context, the elite tier (top 1%) clears 95 — a gap of 9 pp from where this school sits.
Overall, Preuss School UCSD's UC Reach is higher than 99% of California high schools (1105 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 Berkeley | Real shot | Long odds | Filtered out | Filtered out |
| UCLA | Real shot | Long odds | Filtered out | Filtered out |
| UC San Diego | Strong shot | Moderate | Long odds | Filtered out |
| UC Santa Barbara | Strong shot | Real shot | Long odds | Filtered out |
| UC Irvine | Strong shot | Real shot | Long odds | Filtered out |
| UC Davis | Strong shot | Strong shot | Real shot | Filtered out |
The numbers behind it
| Campus | Applicant GPA | Admit GPA | Lift ⓘ | Admit rate | vs peer schools @ same GPA ⓘ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UC Berkeley | 3.97 | 4.23 | +0.26 | 24.5% | Peers +0.24 · matches |
| UCLA | 3.87 | 4.27 | +0.40 | 14.8% | Peers +0.35 · steeper |
| UC San Diego | 3.51 | 4.17 | +0.66 | 39.1% | Peers +0.53 · steeper |
| UC Santa Barbara | 3.49 | 4.24 | +0.74 | 14.3% | Peers +0.49 · steeper |
| UC Irvine | 3.58 | 4.21 | +0.63 | 19.2% | Peers +0.47 · steeper |
| UC Davis | 3.45 | 4.02 | +0.57 | 46.9% | Peers +0.45 · steeper |
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 Preuss School UCSD sits vs. all California schools ⓘ
Overall, this school admits its UC applicants in line with what their GPAs predict (27.7% actual vs. 24.7% expected).
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 | 49 | 12 | 5 | 24.5% | 10 | 41.7% | 3.97 | 4.23 |
| UCLA → Elite | 54 | 8 | —† | 14.8% | 7 | — | 3.87 | 4.27 |
| UC San Diego → Selective | 115 | 45 | 29 | 39.1% | 39 | 64.4% | 3.51 | 4.17 |
| UC Santa Barbara → Selective | 35 | 5 | —† | 14.3% | 4 | — | 3.49 | 4.24 |
| UC Irvine → Selective | 73 | 14 | —† | 19.2% | 12 | — | 3.58 | 4.21 |
| UC Davis → | 32 | 15 | 3 | 46.9% | 13 | 20.0% | 3.45 | 4.02 |
What This Means
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At a glance
JSON · Using this page with an AI assistantPreuss School UCSD is a public high school in La Jolla, San Diego County, California with 115 seniors in the Class of 2025.
Its UC Reach Score is 86 (Excellent, top 6% in California): 99 UC admits (counted at each UC) from a senior class of 115, so a student admitted to several campuses counts at each. That is higher than 99% of California high schools.
In 2025 its students filed 358 UC applications and received 99 offers, a UC admit rate of 27.7% (counted at each campus); 37 enrolled.
More of its graduates enrolled at UC San Diego than at any other UC campus (29 in 2025); UC Berkeley and UCLA together admitted 20.
85% of its graduates completed the A-G courses required for UC and CSU eligibility (California median 56%).
93% of its 2022-23 graduates enrolled in college within 12 months (California Department of Education College-Going Rate).
Of its graduates who enrolled at a UC, 75% earned a degree within six years (cohort entering 2019).
Enrollment was 825 students in 2026, down 1% since 2018.
Preuss School UCSD publishes a college acceptances list for the 2010-2025: 84 colleges. Source: School Profile 2025-2026.
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 Preuss School UCSD's UC Reach Score? Preuss School UCSD's UC Reach Score is 86 (Excellent, top 6% in California): 99 UC admits (counted at each UC) from a senior class of 115, so a student admitted to several campuses counts at each. That is higher than 99% of California high schools.
How many students from Preuss School UCSD got into a UC? In 2025 its students filed 358 UC applications and received 99 offers, a UC admit rate of 27.7% (counted at each campus); 37 enrolled.
Which UC campus do Preuss School UCSD graduates attend most? More of Preuss School UCSD's graduates enrolled at UC San Diego than at any other UC campus (29 in 2025); UC Berkeley and UCLA together admitted 20.
What percentage of Preuss School UCSD graduates complete the A-G requirements? 85% of its graduates completed the A-G courses required for UC and CSU eligibility (California median 56%).
What percentage of Preuss School UCSD graduates go to college? 93% of its 2022-23 graduates enrolled in college within 12 months (California Department of Education College-Going Rate).
Where do Preuss School UCSD graduates go to college? Preuss School UCSD publishes a college acceptances list for the 2010-2025: 84 colleges. Source: School Profile 2025-2026.
How many students attend Preuss School UCSD? Enrollment was 825 students in 2026, down 1% since 2018.
Analysis: Test Prep Gurus (High School Reach, highschoolreach.com). These figures may be quoted with attribution to Test Prep Gurus.
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