Gompers Preparatory Academy
San Diego · CA · Gompers Preparatory Academy District · Public charter · K-12 combined
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America's Finest Charter → Tabernacle Christian Academy → Lincoln High → Ingenuity Charter → The O'Farrell Charter → San Diego Workforce Innovation High → St Augustine High School → Health Sciences High and Middle College →📋 At a glance
- 📚 11 AP courses offered — Elite
- 🔢 1 calculus classes · 4 physics · 7 chemistry
- 🎓 AP rigor: 76th percentile nationally
- 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 97% (90th percentile nationally)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Gompers Preparatory Academy compares for families
Stronger-than-average college-prep profile.
- ▸ StatewideAP rigor in the top 24% nationally with 11 AP courses.
- ▸ LocallyCA trails the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (−4 points). Stronger local schools matter even more.
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: America's Finest Charter, Tabernacle Christian Academy, Lincoln High and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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🎓 Academic rigor
AP + advanced-course offerings
Elite — exceptional AP + advanced course breadth
76th percentile nationally
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). CRDC reports what's offered + enrolled — it doesn't collect AP exam pass rates (College Board owns that data and doesn't release it school-level).
SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-21Source: 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?
90th percentile nationally
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.
🏛️ Federal Title I context
High-poverty school
Title I Schoolwide eligible
≥75% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. These schools qualify for the highest tier of federal Title I funding and typically receive extra wraparound services. Academic outcomes vary widely — check the state assessment + grad-rate tiles.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, free/reduced-price lunch eligibility. The actual Title I designation is a district decision and may differ from eligibility — but the federal eligibility math is what we show here. We don't claim to assert whether the district formally chose to enroll this school in Title I.
Counselor capacity
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020-2021. Counselor ratio = the school's most recent total enrollment ÷ counselor FTE. The American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommends a 250:1 maximum; the US national median across schools with on-staff counselors is roughly 430:1.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of -3.0%/year, projecting from 2024's 1,175 students:
≈ 165 fewer students by 2029 — a real revenue/relevance risk worth getting ahead of.
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Revenue at risk
At $13,362 per student in district revenue, the 165 students projected to be lost by 2029 represent ≈ $2,204,730/year in funding at risk.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| America's Finest Charter San Diego |
Public · charter | 0.4 | 86 | -21.8% |
| Tabernacle Christian Academy San Diego |
Private | 0.8 | 38 | — |
| Lincoln High San Diego |
Public | 0.9 | 1,487 | +5.6% |
| Ingenuity Charter San Diego |
Public · charter | 1.8 | 162 | -14.3% |
| The O'Farrell Charter San Diego |
Public · charter | 1.8 | 673 | +16.2% |
| San Diego Workforce Innovation High National City |
Public · charter | 1.9 | 2,722 | +10.3% |
| St Augustine High School San Diego |
Private | 2.3 | 743 | +1.6% |
| Health Sciences High and Middle College San Diego |
Public · charter | 2.6 | 535 | -10.5% |