New Valley Continuation High

· Santa Clara County · Santa Clara Unified
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No UC admissions data on file for New Valley Continuation High.

This school doesn't appear in UCOP's source-school records (it may send few or no applicants to UC). Its enrollment trend and similar-school comparison are still below.

Enrollment trend & projection

Total enrollment (9–12)
125 (2018)117 (2026)
-6.4%
Grade 12 (graduating class)
81 (2018)73 (2026)
-9.9%

If this trend holds (-0.8%/yr, Total enrollment)

At per-pupil funding of $ / student:

Horizon Projected Total enrollment Change Funding impact / yr
1 yr (2027) ~116 -1 $0
3 yr (2029) ~114 -3 $0
5 yr (2031) ~112 -5 $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.

Critical
Bleeding from both ends.

Enrollment down 9.9% vs. county -6.2%, AND stability (47.2%) below the county median. Fewer families are choosing the school, and the ones who do aren't staying through year-end. Chronic absenteeism is also at 72.3% (up -1.5 pts from 2016-17) — engagement and demand are both signaling decline.

-9.9%  school enrollment (2018–2026)
-6.2%  Santa Clara County baseline
-3.7pp  gap vs. county
47.2%  retention (county median 90.2%)
Enrollment — indexed to 100 at 2018
Stability rate by year (raw %)
Stability rate
47.2%
103 of 218 students

115 of 218 students who enrolled at New Valley Continuation High this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (52.8% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.

Santa Clara County median
90.2% · school is in the 10th percentile of 60 HS
Statewide median
87.2% · in the 16th percentile of 1,688 HS

Stability by student group

Hispanic / Latino (181) 47.5%
Socio. disadvantaged (143) 49.0%
Students w/ disabilities (52) 46.2%
English learners (52) 57.7%

Nearest peer high schools

Boynton High School 48.2% Pegasus High 58.0% Apollo High 78.1% Mission Early College High Sch 96.7% Alta Vista High 49.0%

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
72.3%
149 of 206 students

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

Santa Clara County median
19.0% · school is worse than 86% of 58 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 = 46
4.3%
incl. 0.0% exceeded
-53.4 pts vs. Santa Clara County median (57.8%) · CA median 54.3% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 79.3%
Math — met or exceeded
n = 49
0.0%
incl. 0.0% exceeded
-31.2 pts vs. Santa Clara County median (31.2%) · 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 87% +6.9
White 7% -4.7
Two or more 3%
Not reported 2% +1.1
Asian 1% -1.0
Pacific Islander 1%

Program subgroups

Students w/ disabilities 56% -7.3
Socioeconomically disadv. 30% +16.5
English learners 17% -11.6

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 — Santa Clara 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
$455.7M
+24.3% since FY2017
Per-pupil revenue
$30,776
14,808 students enrolled
Revenue mix
State: 10.5%
Local: 83.8%
Federal: 5.7%
Instruction share
57.8%
of current spending · $12,558/pupil
Long-term debt
$1015.2M
+43.8% since FY2017
Total revenue by year ($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 Santa Clara 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).

New Valley Continuation High — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot

Public · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools

  • Senior-class enrollment is down 10% (81→73 from 2018 to 2026), trailing the peer-group median of -4%.
  • At its recent rate (-0.8%/yr), enrollment projects to ~114 by 2029 — about 3 fewer students than today.

Enrollment projection

117 students (2026)
~114 projected (2029)
at -0.8%/yr

That's about 3 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
New Valley Continuation High Public 117 -10%
Peer-group median 30.4% -4%
Boynton High School Public 132 -38%
Pegasus High Public 127 +27%
Apollo High Public 131 -8%
Mission Early College High Sch Public 190 40.7% +92%
Alta Vista High Public 74 -33%
Broadway High Public 147 -17%
San Jose Conservation Corps Charter Public 185 -29%
Robertson High (continuation) Public 162 +1%
Oxford Day Academy Public 82 +60%
Milpitas Middle College Hs Public 73 20.0% +56%

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 →

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