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Santa Ynez Valley Union High → Dunn School → Olive Grove Charter - Buellton → Midland School Corporation → Dos Pueblos Senior High → Trivium Charter School Adventure → Lompoc Valley Baptist School → Olive Grove Charter - Lompoc →📋 At a glance
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 6% of US high schools
- 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 75% (Bottom 21% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Refugio High compares for families
What families should know about Refugio High.
- ▸ LocallyCA trails the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (−4 points). Stronger local schools matter even more.
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Santa Ynez Valley Union High, Dunn School, Olive Grove Charter - Buellton 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 21% 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 Targeted Assistance eligible
35-39% FRPL — qualifies for Title I Targeted Assistance
35-39% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. The school can receive Title I funds targeted to identified students (not schoolwide).
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 -2.9%/year, projecting from 2024's 11 students:
A small or specialty program — naive trend math doesn't capture the school's full picture. Read the trend as directional, not predictive.
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Ynez Valley Union High Solvang |
Public | 0.0 | 801 | -6.0% |
| Dunn School Los Olivos |
Private | 3.4 | 249 | +4.2% |
| Olive Grove Charter - Buellton Buellton |
Public · charter | 4.9 | 24 | — |
| Midland School Corporation Los Olivos |
Private | 8.6 | 79 | -9.2% |
| Dos Pueblos Senior High Goleta |
Public | 17.2 | 2,149 | +6.4% |
| Trivium Charter School Adventure Lompoc |
Public · charter | 19.3 | 87 | — |
| Lompoc Valley Baptist School Lompoc |
Private | 20.0 | 62 | — |
| Olive Grove Charter - Lompoc Lompoc |
Public · charter | 20.5 | 100 | +58.7% |