Literacy First Charter
El Cajon · CA · Literacy First Charter District · Public charter · K-12 combined
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El Cajon Valley High → Elite Academy → REACH Academy → Diego Valley East Public Charter → Altus Schools East County → Bostonia Global → Grossmont High → Granite Hills High →📋 At a glance
- 📚 5 AP courses offered — Strong
- 🔢 1 calculus classes · 6 physics · 4 chemistry
- 🎓 AP rigor: 54th percentile nationally
- 📝 SAT/ACT participation: Bottom 16% by test-taker volume
- 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 95% (75th percentile nationally)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Literacy First Charter compares for families
Solid mid-tier academic profile.
- ▸ StatewideAP rigor at the 54th percentile nationally with 5 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: El Cajon Valley High, Elite Academy, REACH Academy 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
54th 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 · 2020-21Bottom 16% 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?
75th 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.
🏛️ Federal Title I context
Title I Schoolwide eligible
≥40% FRPL — qualifies for Title I Schoolwide program
40-74% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. The district can use Title I funds across the whole school under federal Schoolwide Program rules.
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.
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 +3.6%/year, projecting from 2024's 2,160 students:
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Revenue upside
At $12,768 per student in district revenue, the 412 students projected to be gained by 2029 represent ≈ $5,260,416/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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| El Cajon Valley High El Cajon |
Public | 0.9 | 1,701 | +7.0% |
| Elite Academy El Cajon |
Public | 1.1 | 34 | — |
| REACH Academy El Cajon |
Public | 1.1 | 21 | — |
| Diego Valley East Public Charter El Cajon |
Public · charter | 1.4 | 408 | +13.6% |
| Altus Schools East County El Cajon |
Public · charter | 1.5 | 257 | +0.0% |
| Bostonia Global El Cajon |
Public · charter | 2.0 | 262 | +104.7% |
| Grossmont High La Mesa |
Public | 2.0 | 2,172 | -5.2% |
| Granite Hills High El Cajon |
Public | 2.3 | 2,331 | -1.5% |