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GILBERT L SENA CHARTER HS

ALBUQUERQUE · NM · ALBUQUERQUE · Public charter

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Programs & features
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Academic signals
  • 🎓 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.

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How GILBERT L SENA CHARTER HS compares for families

What families should know about GILBERT L SENA CHARTER HS.

  • LocallyNM trails the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (−9 points). Stronger local schools matter even more.
  • vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: MANZANO HIGH, PUBLIC ACADEMY FOR PERFORMING ARTS, ABQ SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.

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🎓 4-year graduation rate · federal EDFacts

What % of students graduate on time?

Bottom 21% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate

50th 90th
4-year graduation rate
75%
Range: 50–100%
4-year cohort size
11
Students in the 9th-grade entry class tracked over 4 years
Compared against
17,988
US high schools reporting 4-year ACGR

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

99.5%
FRPL rate — % of students who qualify for the federal Free or Reduced-Price Lunch program. This is the underlying federal income-eligibility signal Title I designations are computed from (ESEA Sec. 1113).
0% (no FRPL) 35% TA · 40% Schoolwide 100% (universal FRPL)

≥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

Share of students absent 15+ days
68.6%
Well above the national average (~16%). At this level, chronic absence becomes a leading driver of enrollment loss as families rotate to other schools.
Students absent 15+ days
127
Federal definition: absent (excused or unexcused) for at least 15 of ~180 school days — about 10% of the school year.

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 +19.7%/year, projecting from 2024's 185 students:

2025
221
2027
317
2029
454

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.

SchoolTypeMilesHS enrollmentTrend
MANZANO HIGH
ALBUQUERQUE
Public 0.9 1,140 -17.4%
PUBLIC ACADEMY FOR PERFORMING ARTS
ALBUQUERQUE
Public · charter 1.0 221 -4.7%
ABQ SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE
ALBUQUERQUE
Public · charter 1.6 205 +33.1%
Salam Academy
Albuquerque
Private 1.8 98 +18.1%
Salam Academy
Albuquerque
Private 1.8 97 -2.0%
TECHNOLOGY LEADERSHIP HIGH SCHOOL
ALBUQUERQUE
Public · charter 2.0 334 +10.6%
NORTHPOINT CHARTER SCHOOL
ALBUQUERQUE
Public · charter 2.3 144 -0.7%
SANDIA HIGH
ALBUQUERQUE
Public 2.9 1,618 -6.9%

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