Mountain Valley Academy

Ramona · San Diego County · Ramona City Unified · Public

Public San Diego County 🏛 Ramona City Unified → CDS 3768304…
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🎓95% 4-yr grad rate

📋 At a glance

Programs & features
  • ✅ Dual-enrollment program (college credit while in HS)
Academic signals
  • 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 44% of US high schools
  • 📝 SAT/ACT participation: Bottom 8% 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.

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How Mountain Valley Academy compares for families

Solid mid-tier academic profile.

  • vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: River Valley Charter School, Audeo Charter School Iii, Montecito High (continuation) and 2 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.

SAT / ACT participation

CRDC federal data · 2020-21

Bottom 8% by test-taker volume

50th 90th
SAT/ACT test-takers
5
11th-12th graders who took 1+ college admissions test
Test-taking intensity
5.7
takers per 100 students in grades 9-12
Compared against
18,426
US high schools reporting SAT/ACT participation

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

50th 90th
4-year graduation rate
95%
Range: 90–100%
4-year cohort size
32
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

Title I Schoolwide eligible

≥40% FRPL — qualifies for Title I Schoolwide program

45.6%
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)

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.

University of California outcomes · Class of 2024
UC Reach
N/A
(class size est.)
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 / None 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.
Student-Counselor Ratio
348:1
0.5 FTE counselors · 174 students
In context: CA median 338:1 · ASCA target 250:1.
A-G Completion
43%
13 of 30 graduates · 2019-20 cohort
In context: CA median 51.0% · -7.7 pp vs. median · San Diego Co. 61.5%.
Selective UC Reach (UCSD, UCSB, UCI, UCD)
N/A
Elite UC Reach (UCB + UCLA)
N/A
Senior Class Size
N/A
Run CDE download to enable Reach %
Total School Enrollment
195
All grades · CDE Census Day

Campus Breakdown — 2024

Campus Applicants Admits Enrollees Admit Rate UC Reach Yield Avg GPA (App) Avg GPA (Adm)
UC Berkeley → Elite
UCLA → Elite
UC San Diego → Selective
UC Santa Barbara → Selective
UC Irvine → Selective
UC Davis →
= UCOP-suppressed (count below 3 students, hidden for privacy — actual value is 0, 1, or 2, not necessarily zero). 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 →

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 = 19
68.4%
incl. 42.1% exceeded
+7.8 pts above San Diego County median (60.6%) · CA median 54.3% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 79.3%
Math — met or exceeded
n = 19
52.6%
incl. 42.1% exceeded
+28.2 pts above San Diego County median (24.4%) · 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

White 64% +3.4
Hispanic / Latino 25% -3.3
Two or more 7% +1.9
Filipino 3% +1.5
Asian 1% -1.0

Program subgroups

Students w/ disabilities 34% +3.7

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
30.9%
29 of 94 students

Absenteeism is up 3.5 pp since 2016-17. A rising absenteeism trend often precedes formal departure — worth investigating which subgroups are driving it.

San Diego County median
18.9% · school is worse than 77% of 117 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)
246 (2018)174 (2026)
-29.3%
Grade 12 (graduating class)
27 (2018)14 (2026)
-48.1%

If this trend holds (-4.2%/yr, Total enrollment)

At per-pupil funding of $ / student:

Horizon Projected Total enrollment Change Funding impact / yr
1 yr (2027) ~167 -7 $0
3 yr (2029) ~153 -21 $0
5 yr (2031) ~140 -34 $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.

Mountain Valley Academy — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot

Public · Ramona · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools

  • Senior-class enrollment is down 48% (27→14 from 2018 to 2026), trailing the peer-group median of -0%.
  • At its recent rate (-4.2%/yr), enrollment projects to ~153 by 2029 — about 21 fewer students than today.

Enrollment projection

174 students (2026)
~153 projected (2029)
at -4.2%/yr

That's about 21 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
Mountain Valley Academy Public 174 -48%
Peer-group median 11.1% -0%
River Valley Charter School Public 170 11.1% -10%
Audeo Charter School Iii Public 148 -15%
Montecito High (continuation) Public 93 -6%
Abraxas Continuation High Public 221 +95%
Dimensions Collaborative Schl Public 147 +28%
Valley High (continuation) Public 267 +6%
Idea Center High School Public 129 -25%
Twin Oaks High Public 198 +76%
Julian High Public 132 +14%
Greater San Diego Academy Public 196 -23%

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 San Diego 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 -48.1% vs. county -7.8% AND stability (76.0%) below the county median. Recruitment and retention both under pressure — likely a foundational rather than tactical problem.

-48.1%  school enrollment (2018–2026)
-7.8%  San Diego County baseline
-40.3pp  gap vs. county
76.0%  retention (county median 88.5%)
Enrollment — indexed to 100 at 2018
Stability rate by year (raw %)
Stability rate
76.0%
73 of 96 students

23 of 96 students who enrolled at Mountain Valley Academy this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (24.0% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.

San Diego County median
88.5% · school is in the 24th percentile of 121 HS
Statewide median
87.2% · in the 26th percentile of 1,688 HS

Stability by student group

White (124) 70.2%
Socio. disadvantaged (111) 63.1%
Hispanic / Latino (78) 70.5%

Nearest peer high schools

River Valley Charter School 90.7% Audeo Charter School Iii 42.6% Montecito High (continuation) 51.2% Abraxas Continuation High 61.7% Dimensions Collaborative Schl 84.5%

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 — Ramona City 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
$69.2M
+8.5% since FY2017
Per-pupil revenue
$13,650
5,070 students enrolled
Revenue mix
State: 44.9%
Local: 44.5%
Federal: 10.6%
Instruction share
56.3%
of current spending · $7,203/pupil
Long-term debt
$19.4M
-23.1% since FY2017
Total revenue by year ($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 Ramona City 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).

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.
Senior class size is estimated from CDE grade 12 enrollment data. Reach percentages should be interpreted as approximate.
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