Sylmar High School

Sylmar · Los Angeles County · Public

Public Los Angeles County
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📋 At a glance

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

🎓 Where grads go

UC admits by campus · Class of 2025

UCB
9 admitted
5 enrolled
UCLA
9 admitted
7 enrolled
UCSD
28 admitted
9 enrolled
UCSB
15 admitted
UCI
14 admitted
UCD
11 admitted

Source: University of California Office of the President, Admissions by Source School. Full campus-by-campus breakdown below.

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How Sylmar High School compares for families

What families should know about Sylmar High School.

  • vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Sylmar Charter High, Puc Community Charter Elementary, Evergreen Continuation and 2 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.

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Sylmar High School — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot

Public · Sylmar · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools

  • Across the top-6 UC campuses, Sylmar High School is admitting at roughly +8 percentage points above what its average applicant GPA (3.946) alone would predict (28% actual vs. 20% expected). That's a meaningful signal — it can reflect UC's track record with this school's graduates, students presenting strongly in UC's holistic review (essays, EC's, context), or institutional familiarity helping at the margin. The data can't distinguish which, but the pattern itself is real and worth understanding.

Your school vs. its 10 most similar nearby schools

School Type Size UC Reach Score Enroll. trend
Sylmar High School Public
Peer-group median 7 -19%
Sylmar Charter High Public 1349 -24%
Puc Community Charter Elementary Public 297
Evergreen Continuation Public 57 -30%
Sylmar Leadership Academy Public 783
Puc Triumph Charter Academy Hs Public
Puc Lakeview Charter High Public 451 -19%
Puc Triumph Charter Academy And Puc Triumph Charter High Public 807 -19%
Sotomayor Arts And Sciences Magnet Public 540 +52%
Puc Early College Academy For Leaders And Scholars (ecals) Public 191 -33%
Discovery Charter Prep School Public 176 7 -6%

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. Methodology →

University of California outcomes · Class of 2025
UC Reach Score
N/A
(class size est.)
UC Application Reach Score
N/A
305 applications
UC Admit Rate
28.2%
86 / 305 applications
In context: CA median 26.1% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 40.5% · higher than 62% of CA HS.
UC Yield Rate
24.4%
21 enrolled of 86 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
21 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.
UC 6-Yr Grad Rate
78%
52% finished in 4 yrs · N=27 entered 2019
In context: CA median 88.6% · -10.8 pp vs. median.
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
N/A
All grades · CDE Census Day
Avg. Applicant GPA · top-6 UCs
3.95
Avg. Admitted GPA · top-6 UCs
4.25

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.

🎯 Who's actually getting into UC from Sylmar High School
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
UCLA 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
UC Irvine Strong shot Real shot Long odds Filtered out
UC Davis Strong shot Strong shot Real shot Filtered out
Strong shot = ≥30% statewide admit rate at this band · Real shot = 10–29% · Moderate = 5–9% · Long odds = 1–4% · Filtered out = under 1%. Tiers map this school's likely outcomes by GPA tier using statewide CA admit rates from UCOP 2025.

The numbers behind it

Campus Applicant GPA Admit GPA Lift Admit rate vs peer schools @ same GPA
UC Berkeley 4.04 4.26 +0.22 20.5% Peers +0.21 · matches
UCLA 3.93 4.27 +0.34 12.3% Peers +0.31 · matches
UC San Diego 3.95 4.24 +0.29 47.5% Peers +0.29 · matches
UC Santa Barbara 3.90 4.30 +0.40 34.1% Peers +0.31 · steeper
UC Irvine 3.96 4.24 +0.29 22.6% Peers +0.24 · steeper
UC Davis 3.87 4.21 +0.33 47.8% Peers +0.27 · steeper
📊 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%
How we infer the tier labels: Each tier comes from the statewide CA admit rate at that GPA band at that UC. The "vs peers" column compares this school's lift (admit GPA − applicant GPA) to the average lift at ~100–300 other CA schools with similar applicant pool GPA. What this isn't: a guarantee. UC comprehensive review weighs essays, course rigor, demographics, and context-of-opportunity beyond GPA. A 3.9 with strong context can land an admit; a 4.0 with weak essays can be denied. Use as a baseline expectation, not a verdict. Per-campus year is shown when it differs from the headline year (UCOP doesn't always publish admit-GPA for every campus every year).

Where Sylmar High School sits vs. all California schools

Overall, this school admits its UC applicants 8.5 points above what their GPAs predict (28.2% actual vs. 19.7% expected).

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 Berkeley → Elite 44 9 5 20.5% 55.6% 4.04 4.26
UCLA → Elite 73 9 7 12.3% 77.8% 3.93 4.27
UC San Diego → Selective 59 28 9 47.5% 32.1% 3.95 4.24
UC Santa Barbara → Selective 44 15 34.1% 3.90 4.30
UC Irvine → Selective 62 14 22.6% 3.96 4.24
UC Davis → 23 11 47.8% 3.87 4.21
= 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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