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California private high schools ranked by UC admissions

How many UC admission offers each California private high school’s seniors received for every 100 seniors, at any UC campus, Berkeley and UCLA, fall 2023 to 2025.

By The Aristo Scholars teamUpdated October 30, 2026Free to read

SourceUniversity of California Information Center, fall 2023 to fall 2025; California Department of Education, 2022-23 to 2024-25 school years.

Photo: Andrewsong49, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

How to read this ranking

For each private school with 50 or more seniors, we divided the number of UC admission offers its students received by the number of seniors it reported to the state, and multiplied by 100. Across the 198 schools ranked here, UC admitted 9,951 students in fall 2025 out of 26,257 seniors, or 37.9 for every 100. At 28 schools, more than half the senior class was admitted to at least one UC campus over the three falls.

The Berkeley and UCLA numbers are much smaller, and they move a lot from year to year at a school with 60 seniors. The highest three-fall Berkeley figure is 21.3 per 100 seniors, at Geffen Academy at UCLA. We rank on the three-fall average for that reason, and show fall 2025 beside it.

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The private schools with the most UC admits per 100 seniors

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198 schools. Tap a column heading to sort. The rank is statewide, by admits per 100 seniors, fall 2023 to 2025.


1	BASIS Independent Silicon ValleySan Jose, Santa Clara	90	96.7	91.6
2	The Quarry Lane SchoolDublin, Alameda	78	94.9	88.7
3	Cristo Rey San Jose Jesuit High SchoolSan Jose, Santa Clara	88	75.0	72.7
4	ICA Cristo Rey AcademySan Francisco, San Francisco	62	72.6	70.6
5	Harker School, TheSan Jose, Santa Clara	195	75.9	70.2
6	Sage Hill SchoolNewport Coast, Orange	148	78.4	67.9
7	Westridge School for GirlsPasadena, Los Angeles	75	72.0	65.3
8	Cristo Rey De La Salle East Bay High SchoolOakland, Alameda	77	62.3	63.2
9	Bishop O'Dowd High SchoolOakland, Alameda	304	63.8	62.9
10	Fairmont Preparatory AcademyAnaheim, Orange	156	66.7	62.2
11	Geffen Academy at UCLALos Angeles, Los Angeles	76	69.7	61.9
12	Notre Dame AcademyLos Angeles, Los Angeles	62	69.4	60.4
13	Head-Royce SchoolOakland, Alameda	100	64.0	59.9
14	The International School of San FranciscoSan Francisco, San Francisco	84	65.5	58.9
15	Flintridge Preparatory SchoolLa Canada, Los Angeles	106	50.9	56.2
16	Lick-Wilmerding High SchoolSan Francisco, San Francisco	139	56.8	56.0
17	Notre Dame High School San JoseSan Jose, Santa Clara	165	63.0	55.1
18	Eastside College Preparatory SchoolEast Palo Alto, San Mateo	57	49.1	54.9
19	Bentley SchoolLafayette, Contra Costa	78	61.5	52.8
20	Valley Christian High SchoolSan Jose, Santa Clara	415	56.1	52.4
21	Verbum Dei Jesuit High SchoolLos Angeles, Los Angeles	57	77.2	52.1
22	Flintridge Sacred Heart AcademyLa Canada, Los Angeles	89	53.9	51.8
23	San Domenico High SchoolSan Anselmo, Marin	94	46.8	51.3
24	The Nueva SchoolSan Mateo, San Mateo	108	48.1	51.1
25	Castilleja SchoolPalo Alto, Santa Clara	51	64.7	50.9
26	Saint Joseph Notre Dame High SchoolAlameda, Alameda	82	48.8	50.5
27	Saint Mary's College High SchoolBerkeley, Alameda	151	51.0	50.4
28	The College Preparatory SchoolOakland, Alameda	91	51.6	50.3
29	The Athenian SchoolDanville, Contra Costa	93	43.0	49.1
30	Viewpoint SchoolCalabasas, Los Angeles	108	44.4	49.1

Figures are UC admits per 100 seniors. A dash means UC left a count blank because it was under 3 in at least one fall, so the figure cannot be computed; we do not guess it.

The chart shows the top 15 schools for the campus and county chosen, by admits per 100 seniors over fall 2023 to 2025. A school you search for is added in a second colour if it is not already there.

What this ranking cannot tell you

On our public school pages we compare each school with schools like it, using the share of students from low-income families. We cannot do that here: private schools report only enrollment by grade and staff counts to the state, with no figures on family income or English learners, so there is no public way to say what a private school would be expected to get. A school near the top may owe its place to the families it admits as much as to anything it does in the classroom.

The counts are offers, not students. A senior admitted to three campuses counts once under “any UC” and once under each campus. A figure can also run high if a school’s affidavit undercounts its seniors, which happens at schools that enroll students partway through the year.

How we matched UC’s list to the state’s

UC names a school by its College Board code, and the state by its own code, with no public list linking the two. We matched on the school’s name within its county. Where UC shortens a name (“Saint Ignatius College Prep Sc”), we checked each pair by hand and kept 83 of them; the list of what we accepted and rejected, with the reason for each, is published with the build. Matched schools account for 96.8% of the fall 2025 UC applicants from California private schools. The rest are left out rather than guessed.

Seniors are Grade 12 enrollment from each year’s Private School Affidavit (2022-23, 2023-24 and 2024-25), paired with UC admits for the fall after (2023, 2024 and 2025). UC leaves a count blank when it is under 3, so Berkeley and UCLA figures are missing at many smaller schools.

Where every number comes from

Admissions by source school, University of California Information Center. Covers fall 2023 to fall 2025.
Private School Data (Private School Affidavits), California Department of Education. Covers 2022-23 to 2024-25 school years.

We downloaded these files ourselves and computed every figure on this page from them. Where a publisher left a value blank for privacy, we left it blank too.

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