UMass Amherst is a match to high match for you. They’ll probably accept you, probably give you honors college and their max OOS merit (16k/yr) which will bring your cost of attendance down to the low 40’s/yr. Strong CS, lovely campus, good dorms, fantastic food.
For UCs, they won’t count your 9th grade, so your GPA will be higher. They will know about your high testing, since you’ll list NMF as an award.
Are there any other CA public schools that would be appropriate in the Match category?
Go see your high school guidance counselor a few times, talk positively about how wonderfully well everything has gone - classes, ECs, tests, etc. And mention how hard it was when you got Covid right before finals in 9th grade, and how you did the best you could under the circumstances, but how it affected your performance on finals. Then ask the GC if she could write about that in her cover letter for those schools that have a GC cover letter, thus freeing up your essay space for an upbeat essay about who you are, what your hopes and dreams and goals are. For the schools that don’t take a GC cover letter, you will have to work this into the essays somehow, but keep that part short, and most of it positively focused on your aspirations and goals.
I believe that a green card holder (permanent resident) is treated the same as a US citizen in admissions and fin aid.