Inspire School of Arts and Sciences

1050 Fremont Street, Chico, CA 95928View on map

  • Public
  • Chico
  • 85 seniors
  • 299 students

Inspire School of Arts and Sciences is a public high school in Chico (Chico Unified) with 85 seniors. 52% of the class of 2023 completed the A–G courses UC requires.

Year

UC admit rate

83%

Pooled over 3 years; too few applicants in fall 2025 alone

County median 78%

Seniors admitted to a UC

too few applicants to report

85 seniors

Seniors who applied to UC

8%

7 of 85 seniors

County median 10%

UC Los Angeles (UCLA) admit rate

too few applicants to report

Fall 2025

UC Berkeley (Cal) admit rate

too few applicants to report

Fall 2025

Campus by campus, fall 2025

The share of this school's applicants each campus admitted, beside the campus's rate for everyone else. Hardest campus first.

University of California

  • too few applicants to report6 applied

  • too few applicants to report5 applied

  • too few applicants to report5 applied

  • too few applicants to report5 applied

  • ~86% · 3 yrs pooled5 applied

  • too few applicants to report— applied

  • too few applicants to report— applied

  • too few applicants to report— applied

  • too few applicants to report— applied

Fall 2025. A student admitted to several campuses counts once at each one. All CA is the campus’s admit rate that fall for applicants from every California high school. Within 3 points counts as about the same. GPA is the UC-calculated GPA (weighted, capped).

California State University

Inspire School of Arts and Sciences applicants did better than the campus overall at 0 of 1 campus, about the same at 1.

  • ChicoAbout the same

    92%

    12 of 13 admitted

    This school92%Overall94%

  • ~100% · 2 yrs pooled3 applied

  • ~92% · 2 yrs pooled3 applied

Fall 2025. A student admitted to several campuses counts once at each one. Overall is the campus’s admit rate for all its applicants, from federal IPEDS data (fall 2023, the latest published). Within 3 points counts as about the same.

Where graduates go

Class of 2023 (82 graduates), the latest published by fall 2025, within 12 months of graduating.

Any college

72%

59 of 82 graduates

UC or CSU

20%

16 graduates

Community college

50%

41 graduates

DestinationGraduatesShare
UC45%
CSU1215%
CA private college11%
Out of state11%
Community college4150%
Not enrolled2328%
Enrolled in college5972%
Total82100%

How each student group compares

Compare college-going across student groups

  • Gender: Female, Male
  • Race & ethnicity: White, Hispanic or Latino
  • Student need: Low-income, Students with disabilities
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Advanced Placement

7

AP courses offered

2023–24 school year · US Dept. of Education Civil Rights Data Collection

5

AP class sections

Counts every section taught, so it is larger than the number of different AP courses.

16% of students are in AP courses

2024–25 school year · California School Accountability Report Card

23%

of graduating seniors passed at least two AP exams or courses

17 of 74 graduates

A score of 3 or higher on exams or a C- or better in courses. Not comparable with the exam-only share.

2025–26 school year · California Department of Education (College/Career Indicator)

11%

of graduating seniors scored 3 or higher on at least two AP exams

10 of 89 graduates

2023–24 school year · California Department of Education (College/Career Indicator)

Subject areas

  • English: 1 class
  • Foreign language: 1 class
  • Mathematics: 1 class
  • Science: 1 class
  • Social science: 1 class

Academic context

State test (CAASPP), juniors tested in 2026, and the share of low-income students. A–G is the class of 2023. The tick is the county median.

  • Juniors meeting the English standard 75%County median 59%
  • Juniors meeting the math standard 34%County median 21%
  • Juniors exceeding the English standard 52%County median 21%
  • Juniors exceeding the math standard 16%County median 9%
  • Low-income students 45%County median 55%
  • Graduates completing courses 52%County median 36%

Across California

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