Steele Canyon High School

• ▸On UC Reach Score, Steele Canyon High School sits near the bottom of its similar-school group (ranked #7 of 9): 15 vs. a peer median of 22.
• ▸Steele Canyon High School's UC Reach Score has declined meaningfully from a peak of 28 in 2024 to 15 in 2025 — a 13-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 2% (520→512 from 2018 to 2026), outpacing the peer-group median of -11%.
• ▸In business terms, this is market-share growth during a market contraction. San Diego County's senior population shrank 8% over the same window — Steele Canyon High School only shrank 2%. So Steele Canyon High School picked up about 6 percentage points of relative share — families chose it over the alternatives even as the overall pool got smaller. That's overperforming the market in a shrinking market.
• ▸Enrollment has been growing (+0.2%/yr); projects to ~2253 by 2029.

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UC Reach = top-6 UC admits ÷ senior class. Sources: UCOP Admissions by Source School, CDE enrollment, IRS Form 990, NCES F-33. Reach — by Test Prep Gurus · Methodology

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