River Rouge Alternative Virtual Academy
RIVER ROUGE · MI · River Rouge School District of the City of · Public · K-12 combined
📄 Shareable scorecard →📋 At a glance
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 6% of US high schools
- 📝 SAT/ACT participation: Bottom 4% by test-taker volume
- 🎓 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 River Rouge Alternative Virtual Academy compares for families
What families should know about River Rouge Alternative Virtual Academy.
- ▸ LocallyMI 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: River Rouge High School, Ecorse Community High School, WAY Academy Vernor Site and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-21Bottom 4% by test-taker volume
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 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.
🏛️ 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.
Chronic absenteeism
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
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of +82.2%/year, projecting from 2024's 841 students:
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Revenue upside
At $14,733 per student in district revenue, the 16,054 students projected to be gained by 2029 represent ≈ $236,523,582/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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| River Rouge High School RIVER ROUGE |
Public | 0.0 | 987 | -7.1% |
| Ecorse Community High School ECORSE |
Public | 1.8 | 340 | +31.8% |
| WAY Academy Vernor Site DETROIT |
Public · charter | 2.3 | 111 | +3.7% |
| Cesar Chavez Academy High School DETROIT |
Public · charter | 2.8 | 730 | +1.8% |
| Academy for Business and Technology High School MELVINDALE |
Public · charter | 3.1 | 130 | -18.2% |
| Mixter School LINCOLN PARK |
Public | 3.2 | — | — |
| Inter-City Baptist School Allen Park |
Private | 3.2 | 313 | +1.0% |
| Detroit Cristo Rey High School Detroit |
Private | 3.3 | 289 | -13.7% |