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Norte Vista High

· Riverside County · Alvord Unified · Public

Public Riverside County 🏛 Alvord Unified → CDS 3366977…
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📚AP rigor: 86th percentile nationally 📖10 AP courses

📋 At a glance

Programs & features
  • 📚 10 AP courses offered — Elite
  • ✅ Dual-enrollment program (college credit while in HS)
  • ✅ Gifted & talented program
  • 🔢 3 calculus classes · 10 physics · 17 chemistry
Academic signals
  • 🎓 AP rigor: 86th percentile nationally
  • 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 92% (60th percentile nationally)

Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.

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How Norte Vista High compares for families

Standout academic depth by national standards.

  • StatewideAP rigor in the top 14% nationally with 10 AP courses.
  • vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Norte Vista Senior High School, Arlington High School, Hillcrest High School and 2 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.

🎓 Academic rigor

AP + advanced-course offerings

Elite — exceptional AP + advanced course breadth

86th percentile nationally

50th 90th ↑ this school
Less rigorMore rigorMost rigor
AP courses offered
10
Math ✓ · Science ✓
Advanced math classes
17
3 calculus · 14 advanced
Lab science classes
27
10 physics · 17 chemistry
Other rigor signals
✅ Dual-enrollment program
✅ Gifted/talented program

Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). CRDC reports what's offered + enrolled — it doesn't collect AP exam pass rates (College Board owns that data and doesn't release it school-level).

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?

60th percentile nationally

50th 90th
4-year graduation rate
92%
Single-point estimate
4-year cohort size
457
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

92.0%
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 = 421
43.5%
incl. 13.5% exceeded
-6.2 pts vs. Riverside County median (49.7%) · CA median 54.3% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 79.3%
Math — met or exceeded
n = 422
10.7%
incl. 0.7% exceeded
-5.0 pts vs. Riverside County median (15.7%) · 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 92% +1.1
White 3%
Black / African Am. 2%
Asian 2%
Two or more 1%

Program subgroups

Students w/ disabilities 92% -2.1
English learners 24% -2.3
Socioeconomically disadv. 14%
Homeless 12% +4.2

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.

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
27.8%
519 of 1,867 students

Absenteeism is up 10.3 pp since 2016-17. A rising absenteeism trend often precedes formal departure — worth investigating which subgroups are driving it.

Riverside County median
28.9% · school is better than 55% of 94 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)
2,144 (2018)1,844 (2026)
-14.0%
Grade 12 (graduating class)
505 (2018)418 (2026)
-17.2%

If this trend holds (-1.9%/yr, Total enrollment)

At per-pupil funding of $ / student:

Horizon Projected Total enrollment Change Funding impact / yr
1 yr (2027) ~1,810 -34 $0
3 yr (2029) ~1,743 -101 $0
5 yr (2031) ~1,678 -166 $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.

Norte Vista High — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot

Public · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools

  • Senior-class enrollment is down 17% (505→418 from 2018 to 2026), trailing the peer-group median of -2%.
  • At its recent rate (-1.9%/yr), enrollment projects to ~1743 by 2029 — about 101 fewer students than today.

Enrollment projection

1844 students (2026)
~1743 projected (2029)
at -1.9%/yr

That's about 101 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
Norte Vista High Public 1844 -17%
Peer-group median 11.8% -2%
Norte Vista Senior High School Public 1844 11.1% -11%
Arlington High School Public 1877 11.6% -2%
Hillcrest High School Public 1798 19.5% -2%
Jurupa Valley High School Public 1706 10.7% +8%
Ramona High Public 2096 15.9% +9%
Norco High School Public 1982 9.3% +1%
LA Sierra High School Public 1458 14.2% -10%
Bloomington High School Public 1776 7.7% -18%
John W North High School Public 1989 17.8% -8%
Colony High School Public 2030 12.1% +7%

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 Riverside County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.

Critical
Sharp demand downturn hidden by elite retention.

Norte Vista High's enrollment is shrinking 6.4× the county rate (school -17.2% vs. county -2.7%). Stability of 88.8% means every family you keep is one fewer; the leverage is at recruitment, not retention. This is the case the high stability number alone would hide.

-17.2%  school enrollment (2018–2026)
-2.7%  Riverside County baseline
-14.5pp  gap vs. county
88.8%  retention (county median 85.4%)
Enrollment — indexed to 100 at 2018
Stability rate by year (raw %)
Stability rate
88.8%
1,692 of 1,905 students

213 of 1,905 students who enrolled at Norte Vista High this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (11.2% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.

Riverside County median
85.4% · school is in the 71st percentile of 94 HS
Statewide median
87.2% · in the 58th percentile of 1,688 HS

Stability by student group

Socio. disadvantaged (1,774) 89.4%
Hispanic / Latino (1,743) 89.0%
English learners (524) 84.4%
Students w/ disabilities (274) 90.9%
White (67) 88.1%
Black / African Am. (39) 84.6%

Nearest peer high schools

Arlington High School 87.0% Hillcrest High School 91.3% Jurupa Valley High School 86.7% Ramona High 89.2%

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 — Alvord 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
$303.6M
+16.1% since FY2017
Per-pupil revenue
$17,170
17,682 students enrolled
Revenue mix
State: 67.2%
Local: 20.3%
Federal: 12.6%
Instruction share
62.9%
of current spending · $9,950/pupil
Long-term debt
$251.1M
-2.9% since FY2017
Total revenue by year ($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 Alvord 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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