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South Ranchito Dual Language Academy

· Los Angeles County · El Rancho Unified · Public

Public Los Angeles County 🏛 El Rancho Unified → CDS 1964527…
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📋 At a glance

Programs & features
Academic signals
  • 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 6% of US high schools

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

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How South Ranchito Dual Language Academy compares for families

What families should know about South Ranchito Dual Language Academy.

  • vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Birney Tech Academy, Mill School And Technology Academy, Lou Henry Hoover School Of Fine Arts and 2 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.

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SAT / ACT participation

CRDC federal data · 2020-21
SAT/ACT test-takers
0
11th-12th graders who took 1+ college admissions test

Source: 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.

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: total enrollment.

Chronic absent
16.4%
60 of 365 students

Absenteeism is up 5.9 pp since 2016-17. A rising absenteeism trend often precedes formal departure — worth investigating which subgroups are driving it.

Los Angeles County median
22.7% · school is better than 72% of 669 HS
Statewide median
20.9%
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
528 (2018)346 (2026)
-34.5%

If this trend holds (-6.0%/yr, Total enrollment)

At per-pupil funding of $ / student:

Horizon Projected Total enrollment Change Funding impact / yr
1 yr (2027) ~325 -21 $0
3 yr (2029) ~287 -59 $0
5 yr (2031) ~253 -93 $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.

South Ranchito Dual Language Academy — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot

Public · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools

  • At its recent rate (-5.1%/yr), enrollment projects to ~295 by 2029 — about 51 fewer students than today.

Enrollment projection

346 students (2026)
~295 projected (2029)
at -5.1%/yr

That's about 51 fewer students. At per-student funding of $ per student, that's roughly $0 in annual state funding at risk.

Default = California's LCFF base grant for grades 9–12 ($12,423 per ADA) — adjust to your district's actual per-pupil figure. Projection extrapolates the recent annual rate — not a forecast of intent.

Your school vs. its 10 most similar nearby schools

School Type Size UC Reach Enroll. trend
South Ranchito Dual Language Academy Public 346
Peer-group median 24.1% -15%
Birney Tech Academy Public 351
Mill School And Technology Academy Public 335
Lou Henry Hoover School Of Fine Arts Public 337
Lydia Jackson College Preparatory Academy Public 341
Valencia Academy Of The Arts Public 404
Christian Sorensen Science Academy Public 411
Magee Academy Of Arts & Sciences Public 399
Applied Technology Center Public 288 24.1% -37%
Frontier High (continuation) Public 304 +7%
Duff Language Magnet Academy Public 323

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. Methodology →

Enrollment stability & demand — 2024-25

Two complementary signals: retention (do students stay once enrolled?) and demand (are families choosing the school?). Read against the Los Angeles County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.

Stability rate
90.6%
339 of 374 students

35 of 374 students who enrolled at South Ranchito Dual Language Academy this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (9.4% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.

Los Angeles County median
89.1% · school is in the 58th percentile of 676 HS
Statewide median
88.7% · in the 62nd percentile of 2,648 HS

Stability by student group

Hispanic / Latino (366) 90.4%
Socio. disadvantaged (322) 91.0%
English learners (171) 90.1%
Students w/ disabilities (58) 87.9%

Nearest peer high schools

Birney Tech Academy 91.4% Mill School And Technology Academy 87.1% Lou Henry Hoover School Of Fine Arts 87.2% Lydia Jackson College Preparatory Academy 85.6% Valencia Academy Of The Arts 93.0%

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 — El Rancho 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
$131.8M
+7.7% since FY2017
Per-pupil revenue
$16,500
7,985 students enrolled
Revenue mix
State: 60.2%
Local: 25.7%
Federal: 14.1%
Instruction share
55.4%
of current spending · $7,792/pupil
Long-term debt
$71.6M
-19.8% since FY2017
Total revenue by year ($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 El Rancho 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).

For School Admins

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