Coastline Community College
About
Coastline College is a California public community college with mini-campuses in Westminster, Garden Grove, and Newport Beach, and an administration building in Fountain Valley, California. The college offers Associate in Arts degrees, Associate in Science degrees, courses to prepare students to transfer to a four-year college or university, and career and technical courses that can lead to career advancement and/or an occupational certificate. The college was founded in 1976 and is part of the Coast Community College District and the California Community Colleges.
Graduation rate & outcomes
Completion, retention, and the equity gap between Pell and non-Pell students.
Program outcomes
Federal Program Performance Data: how each program's graduate earnings and debt measure up under Financial Value Transparency and Gainful Employment.
Of 157 Title IV programs, 1 pass the federal Gainful Employment test and 0 fail. 156 have graduate earnings too small to publish, so they carry no pass/fail verdict.
Pass / fail distribution
- Passing1 · 0.6%
- No Data156 · 99.4%
- Failing0 · 0.0%
Severity spectrum
Tiers band programs by how far graduate earnings sit above or below the benchmark, from Critical (below −15%) through Safe (above +25%). No data means earnings were privacy-suppressed.
Earnings premium gap
Graduate earnings versus the federal benchmark, worst gaps first.
Accreditation status & history
Who accredits the institution, current standing, and any past actions.
Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges
Action history · 3
- Sep 2022Grant Substantive Change: ProgramAccrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges
- Feb 2021Renewal of AccreditationAccrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges
- Jul 2014Accreditation Reaffirmed: Warning RemovedAccrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges
Tuition & cost
What families actually pay, broken down by family income.
Net price by family income
Negative values mean aid exceeds the published cost of attendance for that income band.
Federal aid volume & trends
Pell grants and federal Direct Loan volume disbursed to students, and how they've trended.
In AY 2024–25, 1,271 students received $4.7M in Pell grants, alongside $733K in federal Direct Loans.
Pell recipients · 5-year trend
Loan volume by type · AY 2024–25
Loan awards count each loan type a student holds, not unique borrowers; one student may carry several (e.g. subsidized and unsubsidized), so the per-type figures are the reliable detail.
Student loan default rate
The share of student borrowers who default on federal loans within three years, against the national benchmark.
Of 285 borrowers who entered repayment, 28 (9.8%) defaulted within three years — above the 2.3% national rate.
Default rate vs national, by cohort
* Cohorts 2020 and later read near 0% because the federal COVID-19 payment pause (CARES Act) suspended defaults nationwide. These years reflect a national policy, not institutional performance; the 2019 cohort is the last measured under normal repayment.
Academic programs at Coastline Community College
Top program areas ranked by completions.
Top program families by completions
Enrollment trends & demographics
Fall headcount, 12-month unduplicated enrollment, and student body composition.
Gender split
Race / ethnicity composition
Campus safety & crime statistics
Reported on-campus crimes over the last three years, including violence and hate crimes.
3-year trend
Criminal offenses by type
By location
- On campus1
- Non-campus43
- Public property1
VAWA offenses
Hate crimes by bias
- National origin3
Arrests vs disciplinary referrals
Residence-hall fires
Student-faculty ratio
Student-to-faculty ratio and instructional staff counts.
Coastline Community College vs Peer comparison
The peer institutions Coastline Community College selected for federal comparison reporting.
A larger shape on any axis means this institution outperforms its peers on that dimension. For acceptance rate and net price, lower raw values are inverted so "more selective" and "more affordable" appear larger.
| Carnegie | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SubjectCoastline Community College | 34% | — | 9,008 | $9,605 | Community College |
Anoka-Ramsey Community College | — | — | 8,486 | $11,471 | Community College |
Brightpoint Community College | — | — | 9,380 | $5,583 | Community College |
Camden County College | — | — | 7,622 | $5,124 | Community College |
City Colleges of Chicago-Harry S Truman College | — | — | 6,839 | $3,816 | Community College |
City Colleges of Chicago-Wilbur Wright College | — | — | 7,798 | $2,651 | Community College |
Clovis Community College | — | — | 10,358 | $7,118 | Community College |
College of Lake County | — | — | 12,530 | $6,212 | Community College |
College of Western Idaho | — | — | 11,015 | $7,697 | Community College |
Community College of Aurora | — | — | 8,833 | $7,466 | Community College |
Illinois Central College | — | — | 7,906 | $11,510 | Community College |
Johnson County Community College | — | — | 18,743 | $13,912 | Community College |
Lane Community College | — | — | 6,810 | $7,427 | Community College |
Los Angeles City College | — | — | 14,611 | $7,532 | Community College |
Los Angeles Mission College | — | — | 10,690 | $11,972 | Community College |
McHenry County College | — | — | 9,399 | $8,093 | Community College |
McLennan Community College | — | — | 7,850 | $6,185 | Community College |
Mohawk Valley Community College | — | — | 5,940 | $8,404 | Community College |
Normandale Community College | — | — | 11,026 | $12,370 | Community College |
Oakton College | — | — | 8,329 | $6,188 | Community College |
Ocean County College | — | — | 7,095 | $10,576 | Community College |
Palo Alto College | — | — | 12,395 | $4,374 | Community College |
Pima Community College | — | — | 16,283 | $3,123 | Community College |
Reedley College | — | — | 8,796 | $1,584 | Community College |
San Diego City College | — | — | 13,242 | -$818 | Community College |
San Diego Miramar College | — | — | 14,257 | -$2,735 | Community College |
Scottsdale Community College | — | — | 7,065 | $14,380 | Community College |
Texas Southmost College | — | — | 8,828 | $5,458 | Community College |
Washtenaw Community College | — | — | 11,133 | $3,561 | Community College |
Wayne County Community College District | — | — | 11,887 | $5,762 | Community College |
William Rainey Harper College | — | — | 13,988 | $6,186 | Community College |
| Peer group median | 34% | — | 9,380 | $6,212 |
Coastline Community College Institutional Research office
The IR team responsible for the institution's federal reporting.
The Coastline Department of Institutional Effectiveness supports the planning and decision-making efforts throughout the college by providing data, analytics, and information for managing and maintaining the quality and effectiveness and encouraging continuous improvement of academic programs, academic and student support services, and administrative services.
Visit IR office page- Dr. Aeron ZentnerDean of Institutional Effectiveness
- Shanon Gonzalez, M.A.Senior Research Analyst
- Daniel Pittaway, M.A.Student Learning Outcomes Faculty Coordinator
- Kelly RuppertAccreditation Faculty Coordinator
- Joshua Waite, A.A.Accessibility and Usability Specialist
Reports & documents (1)
Dashboards, factbooks, data dictionaries, and other reference material published by the IR office.
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