How many seniors from your Sacramento high school made it into UC last year? See here
Getting admitted into a University of California campus is hard. Only about 16 out of every 100 12th-graders who attended public or private school in California last academic year were admitted to a UC, according to a Bee review of state data.
But the Sacramento region has a lot of good high schools. And at 38 of them, a higher rate of 12th-graders were admitted to a UC than the statewide average.
College-bound high school seniors usually apply to several colleges — seven, on average, in 2021. For California seniors, one or more UCs are often on the application list, either as their desired school, their “safe” school, or their “reach” school.
Private schools make up five of the eight local schools at the top of the list of students admitted to a UC. At Sacramento Country Day School — where unsubsidized high school tuition is around $31,000 — there were 5.9 UC admits for every 10 seniors last year, the highest rate in the region.
Al Arqam College Preparatory School, Lake Tahoe Preparatory School and Cristo Rey High were the other top-performing private schools. St. Francis, Sacramento Waldorf, Jesuit, Capital Christian, Christian Brothers, Bradshaw Christian and Woodland Christian also saw a higher rate of admits per 10 seniors than the statewide average.
The rest of the high-performing schools were public schools. West Campus High topped the list, with 5.2 UC admits per 10 seniors, trailing only Sacramento Country Day among all local schools. Sacramento High, Davis Senior High, Washington Middle College High and Natomas Pacific Pathways Prep rounded out the regionwide top 10.
Davis Senior High saw the most UC admits overall in the region — 211 in fall 2022. It was followed by Franklin (147), Folsom (131), Granite Bay (128) and Pleasant Grove (119).
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About the analysis: The Bee used UC data showing the number of fall 2022 freshmen who were admitted from each high school. It cross-referenced those figures with California Department of Education data showing the number of 12th-graders at each public and private school for the 2021-22 school year.
