Saint Joseph High School

Lakewood · Los Angeles County · Catholic religious-affiliated

Private Los Angeles County ~122 seniors

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Valley Christian High School → Calvary Chapel Christian School → Saint Anthony High School → Saint John Bosco High School → Saint Paul High School → Compare all similar →

🎓30% UC Reach

📋 At a glance

Programs & features

Program details not reported to CRDC

Academic signals

Academic signals not yet ingested for this school

Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.

🎓 Where grads go

30.3% UC Reach — top-6 UC admits per 100 seniors in the Class of 2025. Counts each campus admit, so multi-admits count more than once.

UC admits by campus · Class of 2025

UCB

4 admitted

UCLA

3 admitted

8 enrolled

UCSD

7 admitted

UCSB

7 admitted

UCI

12 admitted

UCD

4 admitted

Source: University of California Office of the President, Admissions by Source School. Full campus-by-campus breakdown below.

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How Saint Joseph High School compares for families

Above-average college outcomes statewide.

▸ Statewide30.3% UC Reach — 12.2 points above the California median of 18.1%. Ahead of 75% of California high schools.
▸ vs Similar SchoolsBeats the peer median (30.3% UC Reach vs 18.1% median) across the 5 most similar nearby schools.

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No SBAC data for private schools — and that's not the metric you want anyway

California's Smarter Balanced (CAASPP) assessment is administered by the state, by statute, to public & charter schools only. Private schools don't sit for it. That's why the SBAC card is missing on this profile — not a data gap on our side, a deliberate scope of the state's testing program.

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 Saint Joseph High School's 2025 number, statewide percentile, and 5-year trend.

Enrollment trend & projection

Total enrollment (9–12)

522 (2020) → 557 (2025)

+6.7%

Grade 12 (graduating class)

135 (2020) → 122 (2025)

-9.6%

If this trend holds (+1.2%/yr, Total enrollment)

At tuition of $ / student:

Horizon	Projected Total enrollment	Change	Tuition impact / yr
1 yr (2026)	~564	+7	$0
3 yr (2028)	~577	+20	$0
5 yr (2030)	~591	+34	$0

Straight-line extrapolation of the recent annual rate — a what-if, not a forecast of intent. Edit the figure to match your school.

Saint Joseph High School — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot

Private · Catholic · Lakewood · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools

▸On UC Reach, Saint Joseph High School sits in the middle of its similar-school group (ranked #3 of 10): 30% vs. a peer median of 18%.
▸Saint Joseph High School's UC Reach has declined meaningfully from a peak of 46% in 2024 to 30% in 2025 — a 16-point drop that warrants attention. Multi-year UC Reach declines of this size often signal something specific (leadership change, comp-program shift, demographic move) rather than year-to-year noise. This is the kind of trajectory an Enrollment Trend Audit unpacks.
▸Senior-class enrollment is down 10% (135→122 from 2020 to 2025), trailing the peer-group median of -4%.
▸Enrollment has been growing (+1.3%/yr); projects to ~579 by 2028.

Enrollment projection

557 students (2025)

→

~579 projected (2028)

at +1.3%/yr

Your school vs. its 10 most similar nearby schools

School	Type	Size	UC Reach	Enroll. trend
Saint Joseph High School	Private · Catholic	557	30.3%	-10%
Peer-group median			18.1%	-4%
Valley Christian High School	Private · Other religious	527	16.1%	+29%
Calvary Chapel Christian School	Private · Other religious	619	—	-4%
Saint Anthony High School	Private · Catholic	422	12.9%	-15%
Saint John Bosco High School	Private · Catholic	869	31.1%	-3%
Saint Paul High School	Private · Catholic	405	38.1%	-25%
Rosary Academy	Private · Catholic	462	28.0%	+34%
Servite High School	Private · Catholic	767	24.6%	-2%
Mary Star of the Sea High Sch	Private · Catholic	407	18.1%	-44%
Cantwell/Sacred Heart Mary Hs	Private · Catholic	378	14.9%	-4%
Whittier Christian High School	Private · Other religious	410	6.4%	-30%

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, and religious orientation. Methodology →

Diocesan context — Archdiocese of Los Angeles

Archdiocese

Counties covered

Los Angeles, Ventura, Santa Barbara

Schools operated (K–12)

~210

approx; from diocesan reports

Other Catholic HS tracked

in this diocese, on this site

Largest Catholic school system in the U.S. Archdiocese of Los Angeles is the canonical governance body for Catholic schools in this region — board policy, tuition guidance, and shared services typically originate here. Visit the diocesan website →

Financial figures aren't shown because Catholic (arch)dioceses don't file IRS Form 990 — they're covered by the USCCB Group Ruling (GEN 0928), which exempts dioceses, parishes, and parochial schools from individual filing. School counts above are hand-compiled from each diocese's published schools-department information.

📊 Key takeaway · Class of 2025

Saint Joseph High School sent 118 applications to the six most selective University of California campuses and 31.4% were admitted, producing a UC Reach of 30.3% — 12.2 percentage points above the California median of 18.1%, higher than 75% of California high schools. The school produces 5.7 UCLA + UC Berkeley admits per 100 seniors.

University of California outcomes · Class of 2025

UC Reach ⓘ

30%

37 admits / 122 seniors
+12.2 pp above peer median (18.1%) · Ranked #3 of 10 similar schools

5-year trend

2021 · 25.2% 2025 · 30.3%

Where this sits on the California curve

CA median
18.1%

Top 10%
51.2%

This school
30.3%

0%50%100%

CA median 18.1% Top 10% ≥ 51.2% This school 30.3%

Higher than 75% of California high schools (978 ranked, ≥50 seniors)

📊 What this number means

Saint Joseph High School's UC Reach of 30.3% 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 67 pp from where this school sits.

Overall, Saint Joseph High School's UC Reach is higher than 75% of California high schools (978 ranked).

UC Application Reach ⓘ

96.7%

118 applications

In context: CA median 74.9% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 241.0% · Los Angeles Co. Top 10% ≥ 252.0% · higher than 62% of CA HS.

UC Admit Rate ⓘ

31.4%

37 / 118 applications

In context: CA median 26.1% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 40.5% · higher than 72% of CA HS.

UC Yield Rate ⓘ

21.6%

8 enrolled of 37 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 ⓘ

6.6%

8 enrollees / 122 seniors

Enrollment Reach vs. Yield: Reach answers "of the whole senior class, what % 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.

UC 6-Yr Grad Rate ⓘ

83%

74% finished in 4 yrs · N=23 entered 2016

In context: CA median 87.8% · -5.2 pp vs. median.

Selective UC Reach (UCSD, UCSB, UCI, UCD) ⓘ

27.0

per 100 seniors · campus-level total

In context: CA median 15.4 · Top 10% statewide ≥ 41.5 · higher than 77% of CA HS.

Elite UC Reach (UCB + UCLA) ⓘ

5.7

per 100 seniors · campus-level total

In context: CA median 3.3 · Top 10% statewide ≥ 9.7 · higher than 73% of CA HS.

Senior Class Size ⓘ

122

Private School Affidavit

Total School Enrollment ⓘ

557

All grades · Private School Affidavit

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.

Avg. Applicant GPA · top-6 UCs ⓘ

4.01

Avg. Admitted GPA · top-6 UCs ⓘ

4.22

GPA figures reflect 2024 — UC has not yet released applicant/admit GPA for 2025.

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.

🎯 Who's actually getting into UC from Saint Joseph High School

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	Real shot	Long odds	Filtered out
UC Santa Barbara	Strong shot	Moderate	Long odds	Filtered out
UC Irvine	Strong shot	Real shot	Long odds	Filtered out
UC Davis	Strong shot	Real shot	Moderate	Filtered out

Strong shot = ≥30% statewide admit rate at this band · Real shot = 10–29% · Moderate = 5–9% · Long odds = 1–4% · Filtered out = under 1%. Tiers map this school's likely outcomes by GPA tier using statewide CA admit rates from UCOP 2024.

The numbers behind it

Campus	Applicant GPA	Admit GPA	Lift ⓘ	Admit rate	vs peer schools @ same GPA ⓘ
UC Berkeley (2023)	3.91	4.31	+0.40	64.3%	Peers +0.27 · steeper
UCLA	3.98	4.34	+0.36	10.0%	Peers +0.27 · steeper
UC San Diego	4.01	4.24	+0.23	19.3%	Peers +0.25 · matches
UC Santa Barbara	3.99	4.23	+0.24	26.7%	Peers +0.26 · matches
UC Irvine	4.06	4.23	+0.16	20.3%	Peers +0.17 · matches
UC Davis	3.97	4.07	+0.10	32.0%	Peers +0.22 · wider

📊 Statewide CA admit rates by individual GPA band, 2024 (for reference)

GPA band	UCB	UCLA	UCSD	UCSB	UCI	UCD
4.00+	17.1%	14.4%	43.5%	57.3%	46.0%	64.1%
3.70–3.99	2.8%	1.5%	11.2%	9.2%	16.5%	27.5%
3.30–3.69	0.8%	0.9%	1.4%	2.3%	3.4%	9.1%
3.00–3.29	0.5%	0.4%	0.1%	0.5%	0.4%	2.1%
< 3.00	0.6%	0.2%	0.2%	0.5%	0.3%	0.6%

How we infer the tier labels: Each tier comes from the statewide CA admit rate at that GPA band at that UC. The "vs peers" column compares this school's lift (admit GPA − applicant GPA) to the average lift at ~100–300 other CA schools with similar applicant pool GPA. What this isn't: a guarantee. UC comprehensive review weighs essays, course rigor, demographics, and context-of-opportunity beyond GPA. A 3.9 with strong context can land an admit; a 4.0 with weak essays can be denied. Use as a baseline expectation, not a verdict. Per-campus year is shown when it differs from the headline year (UCOP doesn't always publish admit-GPA for every campus every year).

Where Saint Joseph High School sits vs. all California schools ⓘ

Overall, this school admits its UC applicants in line with what their GPAs predict (18.8% actual vs. 20.9% expected), based on 2024 data.

UC Outcomes Trend — 2018–2025

UC Admit Rate %

UC Reach % (where available)

UC Admits (count, right axis)

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) '24	Avg GPA (Adm) '24
UC Berkeley → Elite	16	4	—^†	25.0%	3.3%	—	4.03	—^†
UCLA → Elite	27	3	8	11.1%	2.5%	100.0%	3.98	4.34
UC San Diego → Selective	20	7	—^†	35.0%	5.7%	—	4.01	4.24
UC Santa Barbara → Selective	24	7	—^†	29.2%	5.7%	—	3.99	4.23
UC Irvine → Selective	17	12	—^†	70.6%	9.8%	—	4.06	4.23
UC Davis →	14	4	—^†	28.6%	3.3%	—	3.97	4.07

† = 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 requires unique-student counts. See methodology →

What This Means

A large share of the senior class applies to UC, indicating strong college-going culture and UC pipeline development.

A large share of the class applies to UC, so the admit rate runs lower than the application volume alone might suggest — expected when many students apply broadly, including to reach campuses. UC Reach (which credits every admit relative to the class) is the truer read of how the class fares: a strong Reach alongside a moderate admit rate is healthy, not a contradiction.

UC Reach is solid. A meaningful share of the senior class is achieving UC admission, and there is likely room to grow both application volume and admission outcomes.

Students are earning UC admission but enrolling elsewhere at a notable rate. This may reflect competition from private colleges, out-of-state flagships, cost considerations, or UC campus fit. Student outcome surveys can clarify.

The school generates broad UC access, but fewer students are reaching the most selective UC campuses (UCLA, Berkeley, UCSD, UCSB, UCI). Targeted academic enrichment and campus-fit advising may help.

Berkeley/UCLA admit volume is modest relative to overall UC reach. This is common and reflects the highly selective nature of those campuses, but may be a target area for the school's highest-performing students.

UC Reach has declined meaningfully year-over-year. This should be reviewed in context of applicant volume, GPA trends, course rigor changes, and peer-school performance before drawing conclusions.

Note: admit counts used here are campus-level totals. A student admitted to both UCLA and UCSD is counted twice. When UCOP unique-student data becomes available it will be loaded automatically and the labels will update.

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