Luis Valdez Leadership Academy
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Ace Charter High School → Kipp Navigate College Prep → Alpha Cindy Avitia High School → Foothill High → B. Roberto Cruz Leadership Academy → Compare all similar →Enrollment trend & projection
If this trend holds (-4.6%/yr, Total enrollment)
At per-pupil funding of $ / student:
| Horizon | Projected Total enrollment | Change | Funding impact / yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 yr (2027) | ~249 | -12 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2029) | ~227 | -34 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2031) | ~206 | -55 | $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 Santa Clara County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.
Enrollment growth is beating Santa Clara County (+6.3% vs. -6.2%), but 37 of 247 students didn't maintain continuous enrollment. Why are families leaving once enrolled? Chronic absenteeism is also at 40.7% (up +24.2 pts from 2016-17) — engagement and demand are both signaling decline.
37 of 247 students who enrolled at Luis Valdez Leadership Academy this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (15.0% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.
Stability by student group
Nearest peer high schools
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.
Absenteeism is up 24.2 pp since 2016-17. A rising absenteeism trend often precedes formal departure — worth investigating which subgroups are driving it.
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.
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
Program subgroups
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 — East Side Union High (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.
Local: 51.7%
Federal: 7.1%
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 East Side Union High 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).
Luis Valdez Leadership Academy — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot
Public · San Jose · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools
- ▸On UC Reach, Luis Valdez Leadership Academy sits in the middle of its similar-school group (ranked #3 of 5): 14% vs. a peer median of 12%.
- ▸Its UC Reach has slipped 4 points since 2019 — worth watching.
- ▸Senior-class enrollment is up 6% (95→101 from 2018 to 2026), outpacing the peer-group median of -9%.
- ▸At its recent rate (-4.6%/yr), enrollment projects to ~227 by 2029 — about 34 fewer students than today.
Enrollment projection
That's about 34 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Luis Valdez Leadership Academy | Public | 261 | 14.0% | +6% |
| Peer-group median | 12.1% | -9% | ||
| Ace Charter High School | Public | 283 | 3.3% | +19% |
| Kipp Navigate College Prep | Public | 300 | 14.5% | -5% |
| Alpha Cindy Avitia High School | Public | 341 | 9.6% | -4% |
| Foothill High | Public | 217 | — | -36% |
| B. Roberto Cruz Leadership Academy | Public | 215 | — | -10% |
| Downtown College Prep - Alum Rock | Public | 202 | — | -21% |
| Opportunity Youth Academy | Public | 333 | — | -44% |
| San Jose Conservation Corps Charter | Public | 185 | — | -29% |
| Latino College Prep Academy | Public | 427 | 24.3% | -8% |
| Calero High School | Public | 177 | — | -8% |
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 →
UC Outcomes Trend — 2018–2025
Class size from CDE grade 12 enrollment. Campus-level data — applicant/admit totals may count a student at multiple campuses more than once.
Campus Breakdown — 2025
| Campus | Applicants | Admits | Enrollees | Admit Rate | UC Reach | Yield | Avg GPA (App) | Avg GPA (Adm) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UC Berkeley → Elite | 9 | — | — | — | — | — | 3.80 | — |
| UCLA → Elite | 7 | — | — | — | — | — | 3.83 | — |
| UC Davis → | 10 | — | — | — | — | — | 3.81 | — |