A-G completion at every California public high school

What A-G is, and how many students finish it

A-G is the list of high school courses a student must pass with a C or better to be eligible for UC or Cal State: history, English, math, lab science, a language other than English, visual and performing arts, and a college-prep elective, fifteen yearlong courses at minimum. A student who misses one can still graduate from high school, but in almost every case cannot be admitted to a UC or CSU as a first-year until the gap is made up.

California, 2024-25

53.9%

California, 2023-24

51.9%

Graduates who met A-G

234,287

234,287 of 434,627 public high school graduates with a regular diploma in 2024-25, every school type included. Private schools do not report to this file.

Find your high school

1,934 California public high schools that graduated 25 or more students in 2024-25, with the share of those graduates who finished every UC/CSU A-G course with a C or better.

Met A-G is the share of a school’s 2024-25 graduates with a regular diploma who also finished the UC/CSU A-G course list, as the school reported it to the state. Schools with fewer than 25 graduates are left out because one or two students swing their rate. The change column compares with 2023-24, shown only where that year also had 25 or more graduates. Alternative schools (continuation and other schools in the state’s Dashboard Alternative School Status program) serve students who are behind on credits, so their rates are low by design.

Every county, this year and last

Statewide, 53.9% of 2024-25 graduates met A-G, up from 51.9% in 2023-24. Tap a county to filter the school table above to it, and tap it again to clear.

County lines count every public school in the county, charter and alternative schools included, as the state reports them. Counties with fewer than 25 graduates are not drawn.

The gap between schools is wider than the gap between counties

Among counties with at least 1,000 graduates, Marin had the highest rate at 69.2% and Yuba the lowest at 25.0%. Between schools the spread is far larger. Of the 1,538 regular (not alternative) schools on the list, 184 got 90% or more of their graduates through A-G and 183 got fewer than a quarter.

A low school rate does not decide a single student’s path. It tells a family to check the course plan early, by the end of ninth grade, because the courses a school offers and the order it schedules them in are what usually trip students up, not the grades.

What UC’s own numbers say about taking more courses

Fifteen courses is the floor. UC publishes how many A-G courses its applicants took, and in fall 2025 57.8% of applicants had 25 or more. Their admit rate was 73.5%, against 55.1% for applicants with fewer than 20 courses or an unknown count. This is a pattern, not a recipe: students who take more A-G courses tend to be stronger applicants in other ways too, so the higher rate is not the effect of the courses alone.

UC counts every first-year applicant for fall 2025 at any campus, from California and outside it, and an admit to any one campus counts once. A course here is a year of an A-G subject, so a one-semester course counts as half. The admit rate is admits divided by applicants in the same band.

The share of UC applicants with 25 or more courses, since 2000

Fall 2000 to fall 2025, all residencies, from the same UC dashboard.

How we use this with families

We look at the school’s rate, then at the student’s own four-year plan against UC’s list, course by course. If a language year or a lab science is missing, there is still time to fix it in summer or at a community college when it is caught in ninth or tenth grade. See also UC acceptance rates for every California high school.