River Springs Charter
Temecula · CA · River Springs Charter District · Public charter · K-12 combined
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Harbor Springs Charter → Empire Springs Charter → Elite Academic Academy - Lucerne → Elite Academic Academy - Mountain Empire → Method Schools LA → Chaparral High → Temecula Valley High → JCS - Pine Hills →📋 At a glance
- ✅ Dual-enrollment program (college credit while in HS)
- 🔢 2 calculus classes · 2 physics · 11 chemistry
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 47% of US high schools
- 📝 SAT/ACT participation: Bottom 8% by test-taker volume
- 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 92% (60th percentile nationally)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How River Springs Charter compares for families
Solid mid-tier academic profile.
- ▸ LocallyCA trails the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (−4 points). Stronger local schools matter even more.
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Harbor Springs Charter, Empire Springs Charter, Elite Academic Academy - Lucerne and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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🎓 Academic rigor
AP + advanced-course offerings
Moderate — some AP / advanced course access
Bottom 47% of US high schools
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 8% 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?
60th 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 +6.1%/year, projecting from 2024's 7,703 students:
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Revenue upside
At $10,708 per student in district revenue, the 2,668 students projected to be gained by 2029 represent ≈ $28,568,944/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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harbor Springs Charter Temecula |
Public · charter | 0.0 | 61 | — |
| Empire Springs Charter Temecula |
Public · charter | 0.0 | 487 | +54.6% |
| Elite Academic Academy - Lucerne Temecula |
Public · charter | 0.8 | 262 | +48.9% |
| Elite Academic Academy - Mountain Empire Temecula |
Public · charter | 0.8 | 222 | +32.1% |
| Method Schools LA Temecula |
Public · charter | 1.5 | 161 | +40.0% |
| Chaparral High Temecula |
Public | 1.9 | 3,136 | +5.5% |
| Temecula Valley High Temecula |
Public | 2.4 | 2,739 | -6.4% |
| JCS - Pine Hills Temecula |
Public · charter | 2.4 | 253 | -3.1% |