A California Public High schools includes public, continuation and alternative schools. Private and adult education schools are not included in reporting.

All public high schools and districts are automatically included in the race and separated by the size of the senior class.

If your school is not listed, the Commission can manually add your school as long as the following parameters are met:

• Is your school a public/charter school?
• Is your school serving 12th graders?

If YES to both questions, schools can email their request to SchoolSupport@csac.ca.gov to be added to the dashboard. Please include the following information in your request:

• School name
• College Board Code (CEEB code)
• CDS Code
• Senior enrollment count as reported to CDE for the current academic year

High schools senior enrollment includes public, continuation and alternative schools. Private and adult education schools are not included as part of the total enrollment.

Enrollment counts are obtained from the California Department of Education (CDE), using October certified enrollment counts. Historically, the Race 2 Submit campaign is launched using the prior year’s enrollment counts, until the CDE provides updated enrollment counts for the current academic year (usually in the spring).

FAFSA and CA Dream Act application counts are updated twice per week (on Sunday and Thursday) and reflect the total counts of submitted and completed financial aid applications for your school.

High schools also submit GPA records, which are then matched with financial aid applications to process students for Cal Grant awards. High schools can confirm if GPAs have been submitted by pulling reports within WebGrants – please contact School Support @ 1-888-294-0153 for assistance with confirming your GPA submission.

At the start of the Race to Submit campaign, the Commission uses the prior year's certified October census senior enrollment data as reported to the California Department of Education (CDE). The Commission will update the Dashboard when the Class of certified data becomes available (usually in the spring).

Application submission data is updated from October through March of the following year. The dashboard is refreshed twice a week on Thursday and Sunday nights, with new applications and awards. Final application and award data is presented annually in the fall.

• A submitted FAFSA does not have an EFC because it has not been completed and needs info to determine the EFC.
• A completed FAFSA has an EFC and can be used to determine Cal Grant eligibility if the GPA is matched.

The Race to Submit displays two academic year cycles to provide a side-by-side comparison. Each cycle data will have the same date in prior year from the previous cycle.

The Race to Submit uses both FAFSA and CADAA to measure application totals, while the Federal Student Aid only uses FAFSA for completion totals.

These are several reason for lower competition rates, including:

• Your school may be listed in different ways on the financial aid form or
• When applying for financial aid your student may have incorrectly inputted your school name. This happens if students entered your school name in different ways on the financial aid form.

Great job on your high school's submission numbers. For the Race to Submit campaign, we also measure the percentage (%) of financial aid applications that are matched to a submitted Grade Point Average (GPA); this information is displayed on the right-hand dial titled, "Completed Applications and Cal Grant Awards". Because this part of the data is looking at submitted GPAs, a low completion rate on this dial could indicate an issue with your high school's GPA submission – either no GPAs have been submitted or the graduation year that was provided in the GPA upload is incorrect. Contact our School Support team for additional information at 1-888-294-0153 or SchoolSupport@csac.ca.gov

Yes. Search for California Public High Schools and add to compare to view or compare.

Please contact the designated System Administrator at your campus or district. They can create a WebGrants profile for you. If you do not know or have a System Administrator, please contact the California Student Aid Commission at 1-888-294-0148. With a WebGrants account, you can download student specific reports that can help you increase financial aid completions and GPA matching.

You can export the all Public California High School report by clicking on the Export button located at the right tab area. This can be a tool to track the number applications and help set goals for your school, district or county!

The California Student Aid Commission has several resources to provide counselor and educators with financial aid information at http://www.csac.ca.gov under the High School tab. Here you can find outreach materials and training opportunities to better inform your students about the various types of financial aid applications and opportunities.

Starting October 1 through the March 2 Cal Grant deadline, students and families can attend FREE Cash for College workshops across California for help completing the Free Application for FAFSA or CADAA and Chafee Grant for Foster Youth applications. Specifically, if you are interested in hosting or promoting a Cash-4-College event please visit https://www.cash4college.csac.ca.gov. Here you can search for workshops by location, zip code, school name and county.

If you are a high school staff member with WebGrants access, there are various reports you can pull to track your student’s progress – namely, the "NonSSN GPA Status Report" and the "Financial Aid Application Status Report". Training videos are available for staff to familiarize themselves with how to interpret these reports and what actions can occur to increase your overall numbers.

To calculate year to year growth, we use the following formula:

[prior year completion % - current year completion %] ÷ [prior year completion %] x 100

"Completion %" is defined as the number of completed financial aid applications that are matched to GPAs.

Schools with the highest growth of year to year “Completion %” are displayed on the Leaderboard, under the category "Most Improved". Schools must have a minimum of 50% completed financial aid applications that are matched to GPAs for the current year, to appear on the leaderboard. The calculations for growth % on the leaderboard dashboard have already been calculated for your convenience.

If using the Export file to analyze your data, you will look at the column labeled, "Cal_Grant_Completed" for the current year and the prior year and use the growth % formula that was described previously, to arrive at the growth % for your school.