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Apollo High

· Ventura County · Simi Valley Unified · Public

Public Ventura County 🏛 Simi Valley Unified → CDS 5672603…
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📋 At a glance

Programs & features
  • ✅ Gifted & talented program
Academic signals
  • 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 29% of US high schools
  • 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 42% (Bottom 8% 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 Apollo High compares for families

What families should know about Apollo High.

  • vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Ivytech Charter, Conejo Valley High (continuation), John R. Wooden High and 2 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.

SAT / ACT participation

CRDC federal data · 2020-21
SAT/ACT test-takers
0
11th-12th graders who took 1+ college admissions test
Test-taking intensity
0.0
takers per 100 students in grades 9-12

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?

Bottom 8% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate

50th 90th
4-year graduation rate
42%
Range: 40–44%
4-year cohort size
69
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

79.5%
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.

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 = 49
12.2%
incl. 2.0% exceeded
-39.6 pts vs. Ventura County median (51.8%) · CA median 54.3% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 79.3%
Math — met or exceeded
n = 49
0.0%
incl. 0.0% exceeded
-20.7 pts vs. Ventura County median (20.7%) · 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 74% +14.6
White 22% -14.0
Two or more 3%
Black / African Am. 1%

Program subgroups

Students w/ disabilities 76% +7.2
English learners 14% +2.7

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.

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
67.1%
98 of 146 students

Roughly one in three students is chronically absent. A floor this high signals systemic engagement problems beyond what any single intervention can fix.

Ventura County median
17.9% · school is worse than 92% of 37 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).

Enrollment trend & projection

Total enrollment (9–12)
148 (2018)76 (2026)
-48.6%
Grade 12 (graduating class)
122 (2018)45 (2026)
-63.1%

If this trend holds (-8.0%/yr, Total enrollment)

At per-pupil funding of $ / student:

Horizon Projected Total enrollment Change Funding impact / yr
1 yr (2027) ~70 -6 $0
3 yr (2029) ~59 -17 $0
5 yr (2031) ~50 -26 $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.

Apollo High — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot

Public · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools

  • Senior-class enrollment is down 63% (122→45 from 2018 to 2026), trailing the peer-group median of -23%.
  • At its recent rate (-8.0%/yr), enrollment projects to ~59 by 2029 — about 17 fewer students than today.

Enrollment projection

76 students (2026)
~59 projected (2029)
at -8.0%/yr

That's about 17 fewer students. At per-student funding of $ per student, that's roughly $0 in annual state funding at risk.

Default = California's LCFF base grant for grades 9–12 ($12,423 per ADA) — adjust to your district's actual per-pupil figure. Projection extrapolates the recent annual rate — not a forecast of intent.

Your school vs. its 10 most similar nearby schools

School Type Size UC Reach Enroll. trend
Apollo High Public 76 -63%
Peer-group median -23%
Ivytech Charter Public 63 -65%
Conejo Valley High (continuation) Public 91 -24%
John R. Wooden High Public 69 -25%
Owensmouth Continuation Public 60 -23%
Independence Continuation Public 79 +12%
Stoney Point Continuation Public 105 -56%
Triton Academy Public 77 -7%
The High School At Moorpark College Public 126 -28%
Zane Grey Continuation Public 61 -21%
Sierra High Public 61 +0%

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 →

Enrollment stability & demand — 2024-25

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

Critical
Compounding decline on both vectors.

Enrollment -63.1% vs. county -10.3% AND stability (28.9%) below the county median. Recruitment and retention both under pressure — likely a foundational rather than tactical problem. Chronic absenteeism is also at 67.1% (up +0.8 pts from 2016-17) — engagement and demand are both signaling decline.

-63.1%  school enrollment (2018–2026)
-10.3%  Ventura County baseline
-52.8pp  gap vs. county
28.9%  retention (county median 89.0%)
Enrollment — indexed to 100 at 2018
Stability rate by year (raw %)
Stability rate
28.9%
44 of 152 students

108 of 152 students who enrolled at Apollo High this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (71.1% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.

Ventura County median
89.0% · school is in the 8th percentile of 38 HS
Statewide median
87.2% · in the 6th percentile of 1,688 HS

Stability by student group

Socio. disadvantaged (126) 32.5%
Hispanic / Latino (106) 30.2%
White (39) 25.6%
English learners (36) 33.3%

Nearest peer high schools

Ivytech Charter 6.2% Conejo Valley High (continuation) 30.8% John R. Wooden High 35.2% Owensmouth Continuation 16.9% Independence Continuation 37.8%

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.

District financial profile — Simi 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
$238.1M
+1.6% since FY2017
Per-pupil revenue
$14,929
15,951 students enrolled
Revenue mix
State: 49.3%
Local: 43.0%
Federal: 7.7%
Instruction share
58.4%
of current spending · $7,693/pupil
Long-term debt
$303.8M
+30.9% since FY2017
Total revenue by year ($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 Simi 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).

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