Hope
Buena Park · CA · Anaheim Union High · Public · K-12 combined
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Rossier Park School → Speech & Language Development Center → John F. Kennedy High → Western High → Cypress High → Buena Park High → Acaciawood Preparatory Academy → Oxford Academy →📋 At a glance
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 6% of US high schools
- 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 10% (Bottom 1% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Hope compares for families
What families should know about Hope.
- ▸ LocallyCA trails the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (−4 points). Stronger local schools matter even more.
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Rossier Park School, Speech & Language Development Center, John F. Kennedy High and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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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?
Bottom 1% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate
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
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.
🏛️ Federal Title I context
Title I Schoolwide eligible
≥40% FRPL — qualifies for Title I Schoolwide program
40-74% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. The district can use Title I funds across the whole school under federal Schoolwide Program rules.
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.
Enrollment trend & projection
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 231 students:
≈ 24 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 $18,258 per student in district revenue, the 24 students projected to be lost by 2029 represent ≈ $438,192/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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rossier Park School Buena Park |
Private | 0.7 | 90 | -15.9% |
| Speech & Language Development Center Buena Park |
Private | 0.9 | 155 | -14.4% |
| John F. Kennedy High La Palma |
Public | 1.5 | 1,983 | -8.3% |
| Western High Anaheim |
Public | 1.6 | 1,446 | -17.4% |
| Cypress High Cypress |
Public | 2.1 | 2,685 | -6.3% |
| Buena Park High Buena Park |
Public | 2.2 | 1,682 | -12.7% |
| Acaciawood Preparatory Academy Anaheim |
Private | 2.2 | 94 | -21.0% |
| Oxford Academy Cypress |
Public | 2.4 | 817 | -1.7% |