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Sacramento Charter High

Sacramento · Sacramento County · Sacramento City Unified · Public

Public Sacramento County Sacramento City Unified → CDS 3467439…

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A parent's read

Almost all graduates leave eligible for UC and CSU. 100% finish the A-G courses California's universities require before a student can even apply — most California schools manage about 6 in 10.
Worth asking about: attendance. 43% of students are chronically absent — above the state's ~23%. Ask what the school is doing about engagement; absenteeism is usually the earliest warning light.

Composed from this page's data — every claim is backed by a number in the sections below.

How Sacramento Charter High compares for families

What families should know about Sacramento Charter High.

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California College-Going Rate

82.8% 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

82.8%

of 64 graduates

Give the same class four more months and 84.4% had enrolled — CDE publishes a 16-month window alongside the 12-month one, 54 students.

Up 4 points from the 2021-22 class (78.8%).

Where the 2022-23 class enrolled

In California — 46 students (71.9%)

University of California 12.5% 8

California State University 40.6% 26

California Community College 15.6% 10

California private college 3.1% 2

Out of state — 7 students (10.9%)

Out-of-state 4-year 10.9% 7

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.

College readiness

Getting ready for college

These come from the state and federal files, not from UC — so they are here whether or not Sacramento Charter High has a UC admissions record.

A-G Completion ⓘ

Most graduates leave here ready to apply to UC and CSU — almost all finish the required courses, versus about 6 in 10 statewide.

100%

77 of 77 graduates · 2024-25 cohort

In context: CA median 55.9% · +44.1 pp above · Sacramento Co. 51.2%.

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 half of students read and write at grade level — about the state norm.

Fewer than 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 = 101

50.5%

incl. 14.8% exceeded

+4.0 pts above Sacramento County median (46.5%) · CA median 54.5% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 79.4%

Math — met or exceeded

n = 102

3.9%

incl. 0.0% exceeded

-13.8 pts vs. Sacramento County median (17.7%) · 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

Black / African Am. 60% +2.2

Hispanic / Latino 26% -1.7

Two or more 10%

Asian 2%

Pacific Islander 1%

White 1% -1.2

American Indian 1%

Program subgroups

Socioeconomically disadv. 71% -4.0

Students w/ disabilities 12%

Homeless 3%

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.

43% of students miss 10%+ of school days — above the state's ~23%. Ask what the school is doing about engagement.

Chronic absent

43.4%

192 of 442 students

Absenteeism is up 29.1 pp since 2016-17. A rising absenteeism trend often precedes formal departure — worth investigating which subgroups are driving it.

Sacramento County median

25.8% · school is worse than 78% of 76 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)

760 (2018) → 375 (2026)

-50.7%

Grade 12 (graduating class)

162 (2018) → 89 (2026)

-45.1%

If this trend holds (-7.9%/yr, Total enrollment)

At per-pupil funding of $ / student:

Horizon	Projected Total enrollment	Change	Funding impact / yr
1 yr (2027)	~345	-30	$0
3 yr (2029)	~293	-82	$0
5 yr (2031)	~248	-127	$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 Sacramento Charter High really compare on getting kids to college?

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

Your similar-school group includes

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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 Sacramento County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.

77% of students who start the year here finish it here.

Critical

Compounding decline on both vectors.

Enrollment -45.1% vs. county +3.3% AND stability (77.2%) below the county median. Recruitment and retention both under pressure — likely a foundational rather than tactical problem. Chronic absenteeism is also at 43.4% (up +29.1 pts from 2016-17) — engagement and demand are both signaling decline.

-45.1% senior class, grade 12 (2018–2026)

+3.3% Sacramento County baseline

-48.4pp gap vs. county

77.2% retention (county median 81.2%)

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

Stability rate by year (raw %)

Stability rate

77.2%

355 of 460 students

105 of 460 students who enrolled at Sacramento Charter High this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (22.8% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.

Sacramento County median

81.2% · school is in the 37th percentile of 78 HS

Statewide median

87.3% · in the 26th percentile of 1,734 HS

Stability by student group

Socio. disadvantaged (361) 76.2%

Black / African Am. (265) 77.7%

Hispanic / Latino (125) 76.0%

Students w/ disabilities (75) 72.0%

Two or more races (48) 75.0%

English learners (20) 80.0%

Nearest peer high schools

Umoja International Academy 93.0% Futures High School 79.4% Marconi Learning Academy 46.3% Sava - Sacramento Academic And Vocational Academy - Egusd 54.1% Heritage Peak Charter School 90.9%

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 — Sacramento 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

$772.7M

+16.1% since FY2017

Per-pupil revenue

$18,978

40,711 students enrolled

Revenue mix

State: 56.4%
Local: 24.8%
Federal: 18.8%

Instruction share

60.3%

of current spending · $9,721/pupil

Long-term debt

$495.5M

-10.4% 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 Sacramento 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).

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