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Pacific Ridge School

  • Private
  • San Diego
  • 120 seniors
  • 652 students

Pacific Ridge School is a private high school in San Diego County (Carlsbad Unified) with 120 seniors. In fall 2025, 57% of its 83 University of California applicants were admitted, compared with a county median of 72%. Its students applied most often to UC Santa Barbara (UCSB), UC San Diego (UCSD), and UC Los Angeles (UCLA).

Year

UC admit rate

57%

47 of 83 applicants, fall 2025

County median 72%

Seniors admitted to a UC

39%

47 of 120 seniors

County median 22%

Seniors who applied to UC

69%

83 of 120 seniors

County median 29%

UC Los Angeles (UCLA) admit rate

6.8%

4 of 59 applicants, fall 2025

CA applicants 9.6%

UC Berkeley (Cal) admit rate

—

— of 40 applicants, 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

Pacific Ridge School applicants did better than all California applicants at 2 of 8 campuses, about the same at 1 and worse at 5.

  • Los AngelesAbout the same

    7%

    4 of 59 admitted

    This school7%All CA10%

    Admitted students' average GPA — (all applicants 4.07)

  • Irvine4 pts higher

    26%

    10 of 38 admitted

    This school26%All CA22%

    Admitted students' average GPA 4.20 (all applicants 4.02)

  • San Diego12 pts lower

    13%

    8 of 62 admitted

    This school13%All CA25%

    Admitted students' average GPA 4.28 (all applicants 4.04)

  • Santa Barbara5 pts lower

    27%

    17 of 63 admitted

    This school27%All CA32%

    Admitted students' average GPA 4.28 (all applicants 4.00)

  • Davis19 pts lower

    18%

    7 of 38 admitted

    This school18%All CA37%

    Admitted students' average GPA 4.18 (all applicants 3.98)

  • Santa Cruz8 pts lower

    63%

    26 of 41 admitted

    This school63%All CA71%

    Admitted students' average GPA 4.10 (all applicants 3.89)

  • Riverside13 pts higher

    100%

    11 of 11 admitted

    This school100%All CA87%

    Admitted students' average GPA 3.88 (all applicants 3.88)

  • Merced5 pts lower

    92%

    11 of 12 admitted

    This school92%All CA96%

    Admitted students' average GPA 4.02 (all applicants 4.04)

  • Berkeley

    too few applicants to report40 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

Pacific Ridge School applicants did better than the campus overall at 2 of 2 campuses.

  • San Luis Obispo6 pts higher

    35%

    23 of 65 admitted

    This school35%Overall30%

  • Long Beach20 pts higher

    67%

    8 of 12 admitted

    This school67%Overall47%

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.