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PCJTED - Empire High School → Vail Innovation Center → Vail Blended Learning → PCJTED - Mica Mountain High School → Mica Mountain High → PCJTED - Cienega High School → Cienega High School → PCJTED - Vail High School →📋 At a glance
- 📚 16 AP courses offered — Elite
- ✅ Gifted & talented program
- 🔢 4 calculus classes · 8 physics · 7 chemistry
- 🎓 AP rigor: 86th percentile nationally
- 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 97% (90th percentile nationally)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Empire High School compares for families
Standout academic depth by national standards.
- ▸ StatewideAP rigor in the top 14% nationally with 16 AP courses.
- ▸ LocallyAZ 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: PCJTED - Empire High School, Vail Innovation Center, Vail Blended Learning and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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🎓 Academic rigor
AP + advanced-course offerings
Elite — exceptional AP + advanced course breadth
86th 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?
90th percentile nationally
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.
Counselor capacity
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020-2021. Counselor ratio = the school's most recent total enrollment ÷ counselor FTE. The American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommends a 250:1 maximum; the US national median across schools with on-staff counselors is roughly 430:1.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of +1.0%/year, projecting from 2024's 886 students:
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Revenue upside
At $10,657 per student in district revenue, the 43 students projected to be gained by 2029 represent ≈ $458,251/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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PCJTED - Empire High School TUCSON |
Public | 0.0 | — | — |
| Vail Innovation Center TUCSON |
Public | 0.0 | 55 | -37.5% |
| Vail Blended Learning TUCSON |
Public | 0.2 | — | — |
| PCJTED - Mica Mountain High School TUCSON |
Public | 2.0 | 1 | — |
| Mica Mountain High Tucson |
Public | 2.0 | 1,319 | +45.6% |
| PCJTED - Cienega High School VAIL |
Public | 3.3 | 1 | — |
| Cienega High School VAIL |
Public | 3.3 | 1,881 | -1.3% |
| PCJTED - Vail High School TUCSON |
Public | 3.7 | — | — |