Alta Vista Innovation High

Hesperia · San Bernardino County · Lucerne Valley Unified
Public San Bernardino County 🏛 Lucerne Valley Unified → ~139 seniors CDS 3675051…
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Enrollment trend & projection

Total enrollment (9–12)
975 (2018)2,640 (2026)
+170.8%
Grade 12 (graduating class)
95 (2018)219 (2026)
+130.5%

If this trend holds (+13.3%/yr, Total enrollment)

At per-pupil funding of $ / student:

Horizon Projected Total enrollment Change Funding impact / yr
1 yr (2027) ~2,990 +350 $0
3 yr (2029) ~3,836 +1196 $0
5 yr (2031) ~4,920 +2280 $0

Straight-line extrapolation of the recent annual rate — a what-if, not a forecast of intent. Default = California's LCFF base grant for grades 9–12 ($12,423/ADA). Edit the figure to match your school.

Enrollment stability & demand — 2024-25

Two complementary signals: retention (do students stay once enrolled?) and demand (are families choosing the school?). Read against the San Bernardino County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.

Mixed signal
Demand outpacing county is masking internal churn.

Enrollment growth is beating San Bernardino County (+130.5% vs. +0.0%), but 2215 of 4401 students didn't maintain continuous enrollment. Why are families leaving once enrolled? Chronic absenteeism is also at 71.8% (up +13.0 pts from 2017-18) — engagement and demand are both signaling decline.

+130.5%  school enrollment (2018–2026)
+0.0%  San Bernardino County baseline
+130.5pp  gap vs. county
49.7%  retention (county median 80.5%)
Enrollment — indexed to 100 at 2018
Stability rate by year (raw %)
Stability rate
49.7%
2,186 of 4,401 students

2,215 of 4,401 students who enrolled at Alta Vista Innovation High this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (50.3% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.

San Bernardino County median
80.5% · school is in the 22nd percentile of 99 HS
Statewide median
87.2% · in the 17th percentile of 1,688 HS

Stability by student group

Socio. disadvantaged (3,834) 51.7%
Hispanic / Latino (1,963) 37.9%
White (1,510) 64.9%
Students w/ disabilities (894) 54.7%
English learners (642) 50.5%
Black / African Am. (614) 43.8%

Nearest peer high schools

Excelsior Charter 70.7% Hesperia High School 80.3% Victor Valley High School 73.4% Silverado High School 72.5% Sultana High School 81.4%

Source: California Department of Education, Stability Rate 2024-25. Benchmarks limited to non-virtual public & charter HS with ≥100 cumulative enrollees so by-design-high-churn continuation schools don't dominate the bottom of the distribution. Cumulative enrollment counts every student on the rolls during the year, so it can exceed peak-day enrollment.

Chronic absenteeism — 2024-25

Share of students missing 10% or more of expected attendance — the leading indicator that often precedes the demand decline shown above. Families disengaging tend to raise absenteeism first, then formally leave. Basis: grades 9–12.

Chronic absent
71.8%
2,970 of 4,136 students

Absenteeism is up 13.0 pp since 2017-18. A rising absenteeism trend often precedes formal departure — worth investigating which subgroups are driving it.

San Bernardino County median
26.7% · school is worse than 89% of 97 HS
Statewide median
22.9%
Chronic absenteeism by year (raw %)

Source: California Department of Education, Chronic Absenteeism 2024-25. Benchmarks limited to non-virtual public & charter HS with ≥100 eligible students. CDE didn't publish a usable 2019-20 file (COVID).

SBAC academic outcomes — grade 11, 2025

Share of grade-11 students meeting or exceeding the California standard on Smarter Balanced ELA and Math. This is the academic-readiness signal that pairs with UC Reach (post-grad outcomes), stability (retention), and absenteeism (engagement). Note: statewide median Math is only ~20% — a school at 20% isn't an outlier; one at 45%+ genuinely is.

ELA — met or exceeded
n = 599
23.4%
incl. 5.5% exceeded
-22.9 pts vs. San Bernardino County median (46.3%) · CA median 54.3% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 79.3%
Math — met or exceeded
n = 593
8.1%
incl. 2.9% exceeded
-7.7 pts vs. San Bernardino County median (15.8%) · CA median 21.1% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 53.6%

Source: California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP) Smarter Balanced research files. Benchmarks limited to non-virtual public & charter HS with ≥30 tested students.

Student composition — 2025-26

HS grades 9–12 racial/ethnic composition and program subgroups, from CDE Census Day Enrollment. Two-year shift shown when ≥1 pt — surfaces how the community served has changed since 2023-24.

Race / ethnicity

Hispanic / Latino 51% -21.9
White 30% +21.2
Black / African Am. 12%
Two or more 4% +1.2
American Indian 1%
Asian 1%
Not reported 0%

Program subgroups

Students w/ disabilities 90%
Socioeconomically disadv. 22% +1.5
English learners 13%
Homeless 8% +1.3
Foster youth 2%

Source: California Department of Education, Census Day Enrollment 2025-26 (HS grades 9–12). Δ shown when shift is ≥1 pt since 2023-24. Categories below 0.5% omitted.

District financial profile — Lucerne Valley Unified (FY2020)

From 4 years of NCES F-33 filings (the federally-mandated district finance survey). Public schools don't have their own books — the district does. These figures show the financial scale, revenue dependence, instruction-vs-overhead mix, and long-term debt that shape what a school can sustain.

Total revenue
$18.4M
-34.1% since FY2017
Per-pupil revenue
$21,782
843 students enrolled
Revenue mix
State: 66.2%
Local: 17.6%
Federal: 16.2%
Instruction share
52.5%
of current spending · $9,639/pupil
Long-term debt
$4.7M
-10.4% since FY2017
Total revenue by year ($M)
Total expenditure by year ($M)

Source: NCES F-33 Annual Survey of School System Finances (Urban Institute Education Data API). Latest year currently published: FY2020. F-33 is a district-level federal filing — it reflects the Lucerne Valley Unified as a whole, not this individual school's books. Revenue mix shows where the district's dollars come from (state aid dominates in CA via LCFF). Instruction share is current expenditure on instruction ÷ total current expenditure (national benchmark ~60%). Long-term debt is end-of-year outstanding (mostly facilities bonds).

University of California outcomes · Class of 2023
UC Reach
N/A
UC Application Reach
N/A
None applications
UC Admit Rate
N/A
None / None applications
UC Yield Rate
N/A
None enrolled of None admitted
Yield vs. Enrollment Reach: Yield answers "of UC admits, what % chose UC?" — denominator is just the admits. A small admitted cohort can post a low yield even when the school sends a healthy share of its class to UC.
UC Enrollment Reach
N/A
None enrollees / 139 seniors
Enrollment Reach vs. Yield: Reach answers "of the whole senior class, what % ended up at UC?" — denominator is everyone. High Yield with low Enrollment Reach is common at elite privates: most admits matriculate, but the school sends most of its class to non-UC selective colleges.
A-G Completion
2%
4 of 242 graduates · 2024-25 cohort
In context: CA median 55.9% · -54.2 pp vs. median · San Bernardino Co. 52.6%.
Selective UC Reach (UCSD, UCSB, UCI, UCD)
N/A
Elite UC Reach (UCB + UCLA)
N/A
Senior Class Size
139
CDE grade 12 (exact)
Total School Enrollment
2,023
All grades · CDE Census Day

Alta Vista Innovation High — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot

Public · Hesperia · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools

  • Senior-class enrollment is up 130% (95→219 from 2018 to 2026), outpacing the peer-group median of +15%.
  • Enrollment has been growing (+13.3%/yr); projects to ~3836 by 2029.

Enrollment projection

2640 students (2026)
~3836 projected (2029)
at +13.3%/yr

Your school vs. its 10 most similar nearby schools

School Type Size UC Reach Enroll. trend
Alta Vista Innovation High Public 2640 +130%
Peer-group median 12.0% +15%
Excelsior Charter Public 2260 +8%
Hesperia High School Public 2494 13.4% +32%
Victor Valley High School Public 2258 8.6% +10%
Silverado High School Public 2209 7.3% -7%
Sultana High School Public 2087 9.2% +13%
Oak Hills High School Public 2447 12.7% +16%
Apple Valley High School Public 2163 13.6% -7%
Riverside Preparatory Public 2404 13.1% +49%
Adelanto High School Public 2291 9.3% +25%
Granite Hills High School Public 1796 12.0% +22%

UC Reach = top-6 UC admits ÷ senior class (can exceed 100% when students are admitted to multiple campuses). Enrollment trend = first-to-latest grade-12 change on file. Similar schools matched on proximity, size, type. Methodology →

Avg. Applicant GPA · top-6 UCs
3.67

Campus Breakdown — 2023

Campus Applicants Admits Enrollees Admit Rate UC Reach Yield Avg GPA (App) Avg GPA (Adm)
UC Irvine → Selective 3.67
⚠ Campus-level totals may count one student admitted to multiple UC campuses more than once. Admit Volume metrics are not the same as UC Reach, which requires unique-student counts. See methodology →

What This Means

Note: admit counts used here are campus-level totals. A student admitted to both UCLA and UCSD is counted twice. When UCOP unique-student data becomes available it will be loaded automatically and the labels will update.
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