Strathmore High School

Porterville · Tulare County · Porterville Unified · Public

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📋 At a glance

Programs & features

📚 7 AP courses offered — Strong
✅ Dual-enrollment program (college credit while in HS)
🔢 1 calculus classes · 4 physics · 3 chemistry

Academic signals

🎓 AP rigor: 58th percentile nationally
🎓 4-yr grad rate: 92% (60th percentile nationally)

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

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How Strathmore High School compares for families

Solid mid-tier academic profile.

▸ StatewideAP rigor at the 58th percentile nationally with 7 AP courses.
▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Porterville Military Academy, Butterfield Charter, Harmony Magnet Academy and 2 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.

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🎓 Academic rigor

AP + advanced-course offerings

Strong — solid AP program + advanced courses

58th percentile nationally

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AP courses offered

Subject breadth not reported

Students taking AP courses

≈3 per 100 students · uptake, not just offerings

Advanced math classes

1 calculus · 1 advanced

Lab science classes

4 physics · 3 chemistry

Other rigor signals

✅ Dual-enrollment program

Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). CRDC reports what's offered + enrolled — it doesn't collect AP exam pass rates (College Board owns that data and doesn't release it school-level).

SAT / ACT participation

CRDC federal data · 2020-21

SAT/ACT test-takers

11th-12th graders who took 1+ college admissions test

Test-taking intensity

0.0

takers per 100 students in grades 9-12

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.

🎓 4-year graduation rate · federal EDFacts

What % of students graduate on time?

60th percentile nationally

4-year graduation rate

92%

Range: 90–94%

4-year cohort size

Students in the 9th-grade entry class tracked over 4 years

Compared against

17,988

US high schools reporting 4-year ACGR

Source: federal EDFacts ACGR (Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate), 2019 vintage via Urban Institute. EDFacts publishes a range (low-high) to preserve privacy on small cohorts; we display the midpoint.

🏛️ Federal Title I context

High-poverty school

Title I Schoolwide eligible

88.8%

FRPL rate — % of students who qualify for the federal Free or Reduced-Price Lunch program. This is the underlying federal income-eligibility signal Title I designations are computed from (ESEA Sec. 1113).

0% (no FRPL) 35% TA · 40% Schoolwide 100% (universal FRPL)

≥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.

About 4 in 10 students read and write at grade level — below the state norm — worth asking what extra support looks like.

About 1 in 10 students do math at grade level — about the state norm.

ELA — met or exceeded

n = 78

38.5%

incl. 16.7% exceeded

-18.6 pts vs. Tulare County median (57.1%) · CA median 54.3% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 79.3%

Math — met or exceeded

n = 78

12.8%

incl. 1.3% exceeded

-6.4 pts vs. Tulare County median (19.2%) · CA median 21.1% · 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

Hispanic / Latino 84% -5.1

White 14% +6.2

Two or more 1%

Program subgroups

Students w/ disabilities 87% +15.1

English learners 30% -10.0

Socioeconomically disadv. 5% -3.8

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.

19% of students are chronically absent — near the state norm of about 23%.

Chronic absent

18.6%

57 of 306 students

Absenteeism is up 3.4 pp since 2016-17. A rising absenteeism trend often precedes formal departure — worth investigating which subgroups are driving it.

Tulare County median

17.1% · school is worse than 61% of 31 HS

Statewide median

22.9%

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 (9–12)

375 (2018) → 292 (2026)

-22.1%

Grade 12 (graduating class)

68 (2018) → 75 (2026)

+10.3%

If this trend holds (-4.6%/yr, Total enrollment)

At per-pupil funding of $ / student:

Horizon	Projected Total enrollment	Change	Funding impact / yr
1 yr (2027)	~278	-14	$0
3 yr (2029)	~253	-39	$0
5 yr (2031)	~230	-62	$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 Strathmore High School really compare on getting kids to college?

We've ranked it #4 of 4 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.

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

Your similar-school group includes

Porterville Military Academy · Butterfield Charter · Harmony Magnet Academy · Citrus High · Sequoia High · La Sierra High · +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 Tulare County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.

82% of students who start the year here finish it here.

Mixed signal

Demand outpacing county is masking internal churn.

Enrollment growth is beating Tulare County (+10.3% vs. +2.2%), but 57 of 324 students didn't maintain continuous enrollment. Why are families leaving once enrolled?

+10.3% school enrollment (2018–2026)

+2.2% Tulare County baseline

+8.1pp gap vs. county

82.4% retention (county median 85.8%)

Enrollment — indexed to 100 at 2018

Stability rate by year (raw %)

Stability rate

82.4%

267 of 324 students

57 of 324 students who enrolled at Strathmore High School this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (17.6% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.

Tulare County median

85.8% · school is in the 35th percentile of 31 HS

Statewide median

87.2% · in the 35th percentile of 1,689 HS

Stability by student group

Socio. disadvantaged (288) 83.3%

Hispanic / Latino (284) 83.8%

English learners (105) 81.9%

Students w/ disabilities (41) 75.6%

White (36) 69.4%

Nearest peer high schools

Porterville Military Academy 89.6% Butterfield Charter 44.5% Harmony Magnet Academy 95.8% Citrus High 32.8% Sequoia High 27.4%

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 — Porterville 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

$276.7M

+34.5% since FY2017

Per-pupil revenue

$19,253

14,372 students enrolled

Revenue mix

State: 72.0%
Local: 12.3%
Federal: 15.7%

Instruction share

59.9%

of current spending · $8,081/pupil

Long-term debt

$49.3M

-20.7% 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 Porterville 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).

University of California outcomes · Class of 2025

UC Reach Score ⓘ

N/A

UC Application Reach Score ⓘ

13 applications

In context: CA median 75 · Top 10% statewide ≥ 241 · higher than 5% of CA HS.

UC Admit Rate ⓘ

N/A

None / 13 applications

UC Yield Rate ⓘ

N/A

None enrolled of None 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 Score ⓘ

N/A

None enrollees / 55 seniors

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

Student-Counselor Ratio ⓘ

About 292 students per counselor — typical for California, though well above the 250 experts recommend.

292:1

1.0 FTE counselors · 292 students

In context: CA median 338:1 · 46 fewer students per counselor · ASCA target 250:1.

A-G Completion ⓘ

Only 4 in 10 of graduates finish the courses UC and CSU require — below the state norm. Worth asking how course access and planning work here.

38%

19 of 50 graduates · 2024-25 cohort

In context: CA median 55.9% · -17.9 pp vs. median · Tulare Co. 42.2%.

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

N/A

Elite UC Reach (UCB + UCLA) ⓘ

N/A

Senior Class Size ⓘ

CDE grade 12 (exact)

Total School Enrollment ⓘ

286

All grades · CDE Census Day

Economic Connectedness ⓘ

0.48

4th percentile in CA · cross‑class friendships

Avg. Applicant GPA · top-6 UCs ⓘ

3.61

UC Outcomes Trend — 2018–2025

UC Admit Rate %

UC Reach Score (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 Score	Yield	Avg GPA (App)	Avg GPA (Adm)
UC Irvine → Selective	6	—^†	—^†	—^†	—^†	—	3.71	—^†
UC Davis →	7	—^†	—^†	—^†	—^†	—	3.53	—^†

† = 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

Note: the UC Reach Score sums campus-level admits across the top-six UC campuses, so a student admitted to both UCLA and UCSD is counted at each. It reflects competitive admit volume relative to class size — admit-events, not distinct students — which is why a Score can exceed 100.

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