Vaughn Next Century Learn Center

• ▸On UC Reach Score, Vaughn Next Century Learn Center sits in the middle of its similar-school group (ranked #8 of 11): 19 vs. a peer median of 20.
• ▸Vaughn Next Century Learn Center's UC Reach Score has declined meaningfully from a peak of 46 in 2024 to 19 in 2025 — a 27-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.
• ▸Across the top-6 UC campuses, Vaughn Next Century Learn Center is admitting at roughly +9 percentage points above what its average applicant GPA (3.761) alone would predict (28% actual vs. 19% 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.
• ▸Senior-class enrollment is down 6% (165→156 from 2024 to 2026), trailing the peer-group median of -3%.
• ▸In business terms, this is market-share growth during a market contraction. Los Angeles County's senior population shrank 12% over the same window — Vaughn Next Century Learn Center only shrank 6%. So Vaughn Next Century Learn Center 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.
• ▸At its recent rate (-1.7%/yr), enrollment projects to ~2509 by 2029 — about 135 fewer students than today.

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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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