San Jacinto Leadership Academy
San Jacinto · Riverside County · San Jacinto Unified · Public
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- The UC pipeline here is real. 28 admissions to the top six UC campuses for a class of 76 seniors puts this school in roughly the top 21% of California high schools.
- 8 in 10 graduates leave eligible for UC and CSU. 84% finish the A-G courses California's universities require before a student can even apply — most California schools manage about 6 in 10.
- Kids actually show up. Only 12% of students are chronically absent, versus about 23% statewide — day-to-day engagement most schools would envy.
- About 8 in 10 students read and write at grade level. On the state's own 11th-grade test, 85% met or exceeded the college-readiness bar — the top 10% of California high schools (statewide: 54%).
- Worth asking about on a tour: counselor load. One counselor serves about 760 students here — above the 250-to-1 level counseling experts recommend. Ask how junior-year college advising actually gets covered.
Composed from this page's data — every claim is backed by a number in the sections below.
At a glance
- Gifted & talented program
- AP rigor: Bottom 14% of US high schools
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
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.
How San Jacinto Leadership Academy compares for families
Above-average college outcomes statewide.
- ▸ StatewideUC Reach Score of 37 — 18 points above the California median of 19. Ahead of 79% of California high schools.
- ▸ Locally🎓 Top 6 in Riverside County on UC Reach.
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsBeats the peer median (UC Reach Score 37 vs a 12 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.
Federal Title I context
High-poverty school
Title I Schoolwide eligible
≥75% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. These schools qualify for the highest tier of federal Title I funding and typically receive extra wraparound services. Academic outcomes vary widely — check the state assessment + grad-rate tiles.
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.
Absenteeism is down 4.8 pp since 2021-22. Engagement improving — a positive trajectory worth understanding and reinforcing.
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 (+14.0%/yr, Total enrollment)
At per-pupil funding of $ / student:
| Horizon | Projected Total enrollment | Change | Funding impact / yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 yr (2027) | ~866 | +106 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2029) | ~1,126 | +366 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2031) | ~1,463 | +703 | $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 San Jacinto Leadership Academy really compare on getting kids to college?
We've ranked it #2 of 10 most similar nearby schools on UC Reach. Unlock the full snapshot to see the head-to-head — who's ahead, by how much, and where it's heading.
Your similar-school group includes
Western Center Academy · Nuview Bridge Early College High School · San Jacinto Valley Academy · Banning High School · Tahquitz High School · California Military Institute · +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 Riverside County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.
San Jacinto Leadership Academy is shrinking (-1.3%) but Riverside County is shrinking faster (-6.9%), so San Jacinto Leadership Academy is winning roughly 5.6 pp of relative market share. Combined with 91.5% stability (county median 85.4%), this reflects a school that families actively chose during a market contraction. Replicable model — worth documenting what's working.
30 of 355 students who enrolled at San Jacinto Leadership Academy this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (8.5% 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 Jacinto 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: 14.4%
Federal: 20.8%
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 Jacinto 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).
San Jacinto Leadership Academy sent 92 applications to the six most selective University of California campuses and 30.4% were admitted, producing a UC Reach Score of 37 (top-6 UC admits per 100 seniors, counting a student at each campus that admitted them) — 18 points above the California median of 19, higher than 79% of California high schools. The school produces 7.9 UCLA + UC Berkeley admits per 100 seniors.
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Higher than 79% of California high schools (1107 ranked, ≥50 seniors)
San Jacinto Leadership Academy's UC Reach Score of 37 is in the top quartile statewide (median 19; top 25% bar 33) — but it's still below the top-10% bar of 53.
For context, the elite tier (top 1%) clears 95 — a gap of 58 pp from where this school sits.
Overall, San Jacinto Leadership Academy's UC Reach is higher than 79% of California high schools (1107 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 |
| UC San Diego | Strong shot | Moderate | Long odds | Filtered out |
| UC Santa Barbara | Strong shot | Real shot | Long odds | Filtered out |
The numbers behind it
| Campus | Applicant GPA | Admit GPA | Lift ⓘ | Admit rate | vs peer schools @ same GPA ⓘ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UC Berkeley | 3.99 | 4.21 | +0.22 | 42.9% | Peers +0.23 · matches |
| UC San Diego | 3.92 | 4.22 | +0.30 | 45.8% | Peers +0.31 · matches |
| UC Santa Barbara | 4.00 | 4.22 | +0.22 | 53.3% | Peers +0.27 · 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 San Jacinto Leadership Academy sits vs. all California schools ⓘ
Overall, this school admits its UC applicants 21.4 points above what their GPAs predict (45.2% actual vs. 23.8% expected).
Campus Breakdown — 2025
| Campus | Applicants | Admits | Enrollees | Admit Rate | UC Reach Score | Yield | Avg GPA (App) | Avg GPA (Adm) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UC Berkeley → Elite | 14 | 6 | —† | 42.9% | 8 | — | 3.99 | 4.21 |
| UCLA → Elite | 19 | —† | —† | —† | —† | — | 3.96 | —† |
| UC San Diego → Selective | 24 | 11 | 5 | 45.8% | 14 | 45.5% | 3.92 | 4.22 |
| UC Santa Barbara → Selective | 15 | 8 | —† | 53.3% | 11 | — | 4.00 | 4.22 |
| UC Irvine → Selective | 11 | —† | —† | —† | —† | — | 3.98 | —† |
| UC Davis → | 9 | 3 | —† | 33.3% | 4 | — | 3.97 | —† |
What This Means
For School Admins
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