Alta Vista High School

TUCSON · AZ · American Charter Schools Foundation d.b.a. Alta Vi (80995) · Public charter

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📋 At a glance

Programs & features

Academic signals

🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 14% of US high schools
📝 SAT/ACT participation: 63th percentile by test-taker volume
🎓 4-yr grad rate: 77% (Bottom 25% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)

Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.

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How Alta Vista High School compares for families

What families should know about Alta Vista High School.

▸ LocallyAZ sits right at the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math — local school quality will set your kid apart.
▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: PPEP TEC - Celestino Fernandez Learning Center, PCJTED - Sunnyside High School, Sunnyside High School and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.

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SAT / ACT participation

CRDC federal data · 2020-21

63th percentile by test-taker volume

SAT/ACT test-takers

115

11th-12th graders who took 1+ college admissions test

Test-taking intensity

23.2

takers per 100 students in grades 9-12

Compared against

18,426

US high schools reporting SAT/ACT participation

Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). Volume — not score — is what's reported here. A higher count means more students at this school are entering the college admissions pipeline. Note: 2020-21 was COVID-disrupted; some districts (especially those that stayed remote longer) report unusually low or zero takers.

🎓 4-year graduation rate · federal EDFacts

What % of students graduate on time?

Bottom 25% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate

4-year graduation rate

77%

Range: 75–79%

4-year cohort size

133

Students in the 9th-grade entry class tracked over 4 years

Compared against

17,988

US high schools reporting 4-year ACGR

Source: federal EDFacts ACGR (Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate), 2019 vintage via Urban Institute. EDFacts publishes a range (low-high) to preserve privacy on small cohorts; we display the midpoint.

👩‍🏫 Teacher workforce · federal CRDC

Teacher experience & reliability

% inexperienced teachers (1st-2nd yr)

31.2%

Elevated — a quarter or more of teachers are in years 1-2. Often correlates with school instability.

% chronic teacher absence (≥10 days/yr)

0.0%

Strong attendance culture among teachers.

Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2017-18 — the most recent vintage that publishes per-school teacher quality fields; the 2020-21 sweep had them suppressed). "Inexperienced" = teachers in their first or second year. "Chronic absence" = teachers absent 10+ days/year.

Chronic absenteeism

Share of students absent 15+ days

34.7%

Well above the national average (~16%). At this level, chronic absence becomes a leading driver of enrollment loss as families rotate to other schools.

Students absent 15+ days

172

Federal definition: absent (excused or unexcused) for at least 15 of ~180 school days — about 10% of the school year.

Why this matters to enrollment: Chronic absence is the most reliable early indicator that a student will leave a school — either by transferring out, dropping out, or matriculating to a charter or private alternative. At this level, today's absentees become next year's enrollment loss and the year-after's revenue loss. For school leaders: an Enrollment Trend Audit traces this dynamic forward →

Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020–2021. Rate = students chronically absent ÷ 2024 total enrollment.

Enrollment trend & projection

Grade 12 went from 136 in 2021 to 104 in 2024 — over 3 years.

-23.5%

Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).

If the recent trend holds…

At its recent rate of +2.2%/year, projecting from 2024's 495 students:

2025

506

2027

528

2029

551

An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.

Revenue upside

At $10,381 per student in district revenue, the 56 students projected to be gained by 2029 represent ≈ $581,336/year in additional funding.

District total revenue ÷ enrollment, NCES F-33. Public funding largely follows enrollment, so a shrinking class is a recurring budget hit.

Nearby high schools — the local competition

The closest high schools families here also consider, and where their enrollment is heading.

School	Type	Miles	HS enrollment	Trend
PPEP TEC - Celestino Fernandez Learning Center TUCSON	Public · charter	0.6	116	-11.5%
PCJTED - Sunnyside High School TUCSON	Public	1.3	6	—
Sunnyside High School TUCSON	Public	1.3	2,258	+4.1%
PJCTED - Star Academic High School Tucson	Public	1.7	—	—
STAR Academic High School TUCSON	Public	1.7	265	-4.0%
Toltecali High School TUCSON	Public · charter	1.7	126	-8.0%
Pima County JTED - Bridges Day Program Tucson	Public	2.0	4	—
Pima County JTED - Bridges Evening Program TUCSON	Public	2.0	57	—