Public Safety Academy

San Bernardino · San Bernardino County · San Bernardino City Unified · Public

Public San Bernardino County San Bernardino City Unified → ~51 seniors CDS 3667876…

Data Year

Compare with peers

Most similar nearby schools

Sierra High → Entrepreneur High School → San Andreas High → Asa Charter → Entrepreneur High Fontana → Compare all similar →

Keep this page current

Work at Public Safety Academy? If this page is missing your newest school profile, matriculation list, or college acceptances, send us the links. We read the document, copy the figures exactly as published, and cite it on this page.

Send us links

Links only, please. We can't take file uploads, and we never publish a number without the document it came from.

By sending this you agree that we may email you about your request. We write by email only, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

California College-Going Rate

55.8% 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.

Within 12 months

55.8%

of 43 graduates

Give the same class four more months and 58.1% had enrolled — CDE publishes a 16-month window alongside the 12-month one, 25 students.

Up 3.8 points from the 2021-22 class (52%).

Where the 2022-23 class enrolled

In California — 24 students (55.8%)

University of California 2.3% 1

California State University 20.9% 9

California Community College 32.6% 14

California private college 0.0% 0

Out of state — 0 students (0.0%)

Out-of-state 4-year 0.0% 0

Out-of-state 2-year 0.0% 0

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.

You've seen Public Safety Academy. What are your child's real college odds? Check any college in 10 seconds — no email needed — then get the free Family Decision Report: Reach / Competitive / Match / Likely + the real cost range for every college on their list. Check odds →

How Public Safety Academy compares for families

What families should know about Public Safety Academy.

▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Sierra High, Entrepreneur High School, San Andreas High and 2 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.

For Parents

Get alerts when Public Safety Academy's numbers change

New admissions results, enrollment shifts, test scores — a few alerts a year, no spam. Your email also saves your list across devices.

Objective, government-grade data — no school pays us for placement.

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.

About 4 in 10 students read and write at grade level — below the state norm — worth asking what extra support looks like.

About 1 in 10 students do math at grade level — below the state norm — worth asking what extra support looks like.

ELA — met or exceeded

n = 41

36.6%

incl. 12.2% exceeded

-9.7 pts vs. San Bernardino County median (46.3%) · CA median 54.5% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 79.4%

Math — met or exceeded

n = 41

9.8%

incl. 2.4% exceeded

-6.0 pts vs. San Bernardino County median (15.8%) · CA median 21.4% · 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 84% -6.5

Not reported 9% +5.7

Black / African Am. 4% +1.5

White 2%

Two or more 0%

American Indian 0%

Program subgroups

Socioeconomically disadv. 98% +21.7

Students w/ disabilities 23% +7.2

English learners 22% +3.2

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.

39% of students miss 10%+ of school days — above the state's ~23%. Ask what the school is doing about engagement.

Chronic absent

39.3%

86 of 219 students

Absenteeism is up 39.3 pp since 2016-17. A rising absenteeism trend often precedes formal departure — worth investigating which subgroups are driving it.

San Bernardino County median

26.7% · school is worse than 73% of 97 HS

Statewide median

22.8%

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)

425 (2018) → 404 (2026)

-4.9%

Grade 12 (graduating class)

55 (2018) → 38 (2026)

-30.9%

If this trend holds (-1.0%/yr, Total enrollment)

At per-pupil funding of $ / student:

Horizon	Projected Total enrollment	Change	Funding impact / yr
1 yr (2027)	~400	-4	$0
3 yr (2029)	~392	-12	$0
5 yr (2031)	~385	-19	$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 Public Safety Academy really compare on getting kids to college?

Unlock a head-to-head snapshot of Public Safety Academy against its 10 most similar nearby schools — matched on size, location, type. See exactly where it stands on the college pipeline.

The full head-to-head table — every peer school's UC Reach, side by side.

Enrollment trend + 3-year projection — is this school growing or quietly shrinking?

The plain-English read on what it all means for your family.

Your similar-school group includes

Sierra High · Entrepreneur High School · San Andreas High · Asa Charter · Entrepreneur High Fontana · Middle College High · +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 San Bernardino County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.

85% of students who start the year here finish it here.

Critical

Sharp demand downturn hidden by elite retention.

Public Safety Academy's enrollment is shrinking far faster than San Bernardino County (school -30.9% vs. county +0.0%). Stability of 85.0% means every family you keep is one fewer; the leverage is at recruitment, not retention. This is the case the high stability number alone would hide. Chronic absenteeism is also at 36.5% (up +36.5 pts from 2016-17) — engagement and demand are both signaling decline.

-30.9% senior class, grade 12 (2018–2026)

+0.0% San Bernardino County baseline

-30.9pp gap vs. county

85.0% retention (county median 80.5%)

Senior class (grade 12) — indexed to 100 at 2018

Stability rate by year (raw %)

Stability rate

85.0%

193 of 227 students

34 of 227 students who enrolled at Public Safety Academy this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (15.0% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.

San Bernardino County median

80.5% · school is in the 71st percentile of 99 HS

Statewide median

87.3% · in the 41st percentile of 1,734 HS

Stability by student group

Socio. disadvantaged (415) 85.3%

Hispanic / Latino (296) 80.1%

English learners (102) 81.4%

Students w/ disabilities (94) 90.4%

Nearest peer high schools

Sierra High 39.9% Entrepreneur High School 72.6% San Andreas High 40.4% Asa Charter 37.2% Entrepreneur High Fontana 73.9%

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 Bernardino City 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.

Total revenue

$920.4M

+18.8% since FY2017

Per-pupil revenue

$19,710

46,693 students enrolled

Revenue mix

State: 72.5%
Local: 10.1%
Federal: 17.4%

Instruction share

56.5%

of current spending · $9,863/pupil

Long-term debt

$511.0M

+46.5% 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 San Bernardino City 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).

UC Reach Score ⓘ methodology

UC Application Reach Score ⓘ

5 applications

In context: CA median 81 · Top 10% statewide ≥ 240 · San Bernardino Co. Top 10% ≥ 129 · higher than 1% of CA HS.

UC Admit Rate ⓘ

N/A

— / 5 applications

UC Yield Rate ⓘ

N/A

— enrolled of — admitted

Yield vs. Enrollment Reach: Yield answers "of UC admits, what % chose UC?" — denominator is just the admits. A small admitted cohort can post a low yield even when the school sends a healthy share of its class to UC.

UC Enrollment Reach Score ⓘ

N/A

— enrollees / 51 seniors

Enrollment Reach vs. Yield: Reach answers "of the whole senior class, what share ended up at UC?" — denominator is everyone. High Yield with low Enrollment Reach is common at elite privates: most admits matriculate, but the school sends most of its class to non-UC selective colleges.

A-G Completion ⓘ

Only 1 in 4 graduates finish the courses UC and CSU require — below the state norm. Worth asking how course access and planning work here.

23%

11 of 48 graduates · 2024-25 cohort

In context: CA median 55.9% · -33.0 pp vs. median · San Bernardino Co. 52.6%.

Selective UC Reach (UCB, UCLA, UCSD, UCSB, UCI — incl. the Elite two) ⓘ

N/A

Elite UC Reach (UCB + UCLA) ⓘ

N/A

Senior Class Size ⓘ

CDE grade 12 (exact)

Total School Enrollment ⓘ

396

All grades · CDE Census Day

Avg. Applicant GPA · top-6 UCs ⓘ

3.33

UC Outcomes Trend — 2018–2025

UC Admit Rate %

UC Reach Score (where available)

UC Admits (count, right axis)

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)
UCLA → Elite	5	—^†	—^†	—^†	—^†	—	3.33	—^†

† = UCOP-suppressed (count below 3 students, hidden for privacy — actual value is 0, 1, or 2, not necessarily zero). Campus-level totals may count one student admitted to multiple UC campuses more than once; Admit Volume metrics are not the same as UC Reach, which is measured against the whole senior class. See methodology →

What This Means

A relatively small share of the senior class is entering the UC application pipeline. This may signal limited A-G completion, UC awareness gaps, or counseling capacity constraints. Broadening access is the highest-leverage opportunity for this school.

Note: the UC Reach Score sums campus-level admits across the top-six UC campuses, so a student admitted to both UCLA and UCSD is counted at each. It reflects competitive admit volume relative to class size — admit-events, not distinct students — which is why a Score can exceed 100.

Compare with other schools → See San Bernardino County rankings →

For School Admins

The full Reach Report for Public Safety Academy

A board- and LCAP-ready intelligence brief: your enrollment retention and college outcomes, benchmarked against your closest competitors, with a 5-year forecast, concrete steps to act on, and the rigor + outcomes story you can share with your families. Built from primary public data — prepared for you, not auto-generated.

✓Your 5-year enrollment forecast (currently -1.0%/yr) with the revenue at stake
✓Student-retention benchmarking vs your county median — and the LCAP evidence to back your goals

See a sample report →

At a glance

JSON · Using this page with an AI assistant

Public Safety Academy is a public high school in San Bernardino, San Bernardino County, California with 51 seniors in the Class of 2025.

23% of its graduates completed the A-G courses required for UC and CSU eligibility (California median 56%).

56% of its 2022-23 graduates enrolled in college within 12 months (California Department of Education College-Going Rate).

Enrollment was 404 students in 2026, down 5% since 2018.

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 percentage of Public Safety Academy graduates complete the A-G requirements? 23% of its graduates completed the A-G courses required for UC and CSU eligibility (California median 56%).

What percentage of Public Safety Academy graduates go to college? 56% of its 2022-23 graduates enrolled in college within 12 months (California Department of Education College-Going Rate).

How many students attend Public Safety Academy? Enrollment was 404 students in 2026, down 5% since 2018.

Analysis: Test Prep Gurus (High School Reach, highschoolreach.com). These figures may be quoted with attribution to Test Prep Gurus.

What does AI tell parents about Public Safety Academy?

When a parent asks an AI assistant about Public Safety Academy, the answer is built from a handful of sources, and Reach is often one of them. We will send your school a short report on what AI says about Public Safety Academy and where it comes from. The first report is free.

Request the free report