Riverside Virtual
Riverside · CA · Riverside Unified · Public · K-12 combined
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Gateway College and Career Academy → Riverside County Juvenile Court → Riverside County Special Education → Riverside County Community → Riverside County ROP → CBK Charter → Abraham Lincoln Continuation → Polytechnic High →📋 At a glance
- 📚 36 AP courses offered — Strong
- 🎓 AP rigor: 56th percentile nationally
- 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 90% (Bottom 49% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Riverside Virtual compares for families
Solid mid-tier academic profile.
- ▸ StatewideAP rigor at the 56th percentile nationally with 36 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: Gateway College and Career Academy, Riverside County Juvenile Court, Riverside County Special Education and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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🎓 Academic rigor
AP + advanced-course offerings
Strong — solid AP program + advanced courses
56th 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?
Bottom 49% 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
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.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of -40.7%/year, projecting from 2024's 524 students:
≈ 486 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 $16,641 per student in district revenue, the 486 students projected to be lost by 2029 represent ≈ $8,087,526/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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gateway College and Career Academy Riverside |
Public · charter | 0.4 | 394 | +462.9% |
| Riverside County Juvenile Court Riverside |
Public | 0.5 | 102 | +15.9% |
| Riverside County Special Education Riverside |
Public | 0.5 | 192 | -15.4% |
| Riverside County Community Riverside |
Public | 0.5 | 147 | +50.0% |
| Riverside County ROP Riverside |
Public | 0.5 | — | — |
| CBK Charter Riverside |
Public · charter | 0.5 | 612 | +62.3% |
| Abraham Lincoln Continuation Riverside |
Public | 0.5 | 148 | -14.9% |
| Polytechnic High Riverside |
Public | 1.6 | 2,484 | +0.6% |