Sugar Bowl Academy

Norden · Placer County · Private independent

Private Placer County
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Programs & features
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Academic signals
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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.

This school doesn't have UC outcomes data on file yet — we surface UCOP-published admits by sending HS, and not every private school appears in those records. The enrollment trend, stability, and other cards on this page are still primary-sourced for this school.

Enrollment trend & projection

Total enrollment (9–12)
92 (2020)69 (2025)
-25.0%
Grade 12 (graduating class)
10 (2020)15 (2025)
+50.0%

If this trend holds (-4.9%/yr, Total enrollment)

At tuition of $ / student:

Horizon Projected Total enrollment Change Tuition impact / yr
1 yr (2026) ~66 -3 $0
3 yr (2028) ~59 -10 $0
5 yr (2030) ~54 -15 $0

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

Sugar Bowl Academy — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot

Private · secular · Norden · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools

  • Senior-class enrollment is up 50% (10→15 from 2020 to 2025), outpacing the peer-group median of +6%.
  • At its recent rate (-5.6%/yr), enrollment projects to ~58 by 2028 — about 11 fewer students than today.

Enrollment projection

69 students (2025)
~58 projected (2028)
at -5.6%/yr

That's about 11 fewer students. At a tuition of $ per student, that's roughly $0 in annual tuition revenue at risk.

Default derived from this school's own IRS Form 990 (FY2023): program-service revenue ÷ enrollment, rounded to the nearest $1k — an authoritative average that includes auxiliary revenue (athletics, food service). Your published tuition may differ; adjust if needed. 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 Score Enroll. trend
Sugar Bowl Academy Private · secular 69 +50%
Peer-group median 22 +6%
Tahoe Expedition Academy Private · secular 224 +33%
Rise University Preparatory Private · Other religious 72 45 +11%
Maybeck High School Private · secular 111 30 +36%
North Bay Christian Academy Private · Other religious 76 +0%
Fusion Academy Pleasanton Private · secular 39 +800%
Orinda Academy Private · secular 33 15 -81%
Rio Lindo Academy Private 136 -5%
Orion Academy Private · secular 30 -9%
Tilden Preparatory School Private · secular 160 12 +58%
Fusion Academy-San Francisco Private · secular 26 -36%

UC Reach Score = 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 →

Financial profile — IRS Form 990, FY2023

From 13 years of Form 990 filings via ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer (free public IRS data). The school's tax filings show financial scale, fundraising health, and endowment trajectory — signals that drive board-level conversations about tuition pricing, financial-aid capacity, and capital projects.

Total revenue
$8.3M
FY2023
Net assets (endowment + property)
$15.3M
+168.0% since FY2011
Tuition revenue (program)
$6.5M
≈ $94151/student avg
Gifts & grants
$1.6M
fundraising
Total revenue by year ($M)
Net assets by year ($M)

Source: IRS Form 990 via ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer (EIN 943171879). View latest 990 PDF → Tuition-per-student is total program-service revenue divided by latest enrollment — a rough average that includes auxiliary revenue (athletics, food service, etc.); the actual published tuition can differ. Form 990 is filed annually under penalty of perjury, so the financial scale figures are authoritative.

University of California outcomes · Class of 2025
UC Reach Score
N/A
(class size est.)
UC Application Reach Score
N/A
5 applications
UC Admit Rate
N/A
None / 5 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 / None 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.
Selective UC Reach (UCSD, UCSB, UCI, UCD)
N/A
Elite UC Reach (UCB + UCLA)
N/A
Senior Class Size
N/A
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Total School Enrollment
69
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
4.06

GPA figures reflect 2022 — UC has not yet released applicant/admit GPA for 2025.

UC Outcomes Trend — 2021–2025

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) '22 Avg GPA (Adm) '22
UC Santa Barbara → Selective 5 4.08
= 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: UC Reach sums campus-level admits across the top-six UC campuses, so a student admitted to both UCLA and UCSD is counted at each. It measures competitive admit volume relative to class size — admit-events, not distinct students — which is why it can exceed 100%.
Senior class size is estimated from CDE grade 12 enrollment data. Reach percentages should be interpreted as approximate.
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