Pvusd Virtual Academy

Watsonville · Santa Cruz County · Pajaro Valley Unified · Public

Public Santa Cruz County 🏛 Pajaro Valley Unified → ~26 seniors CDS 4469799…
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📘Top 25% Math · SBAC (CA)

📋 At a glance

Programs & features
  • ✅ Dual-enrollment program (college credit while in HS)
  • ✅ Gifted & talented program
  • 🔢 7 calculus classes · 5 physics · 23 chemistry
Academic signals
  • 🎓 AP rigor: 54th percentile nationally
  • 📝 SAT/ACT participation: Bottom 1% by test-taker volume

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

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How Pvusd Virtual Academy compares for families

Solid mid-tier academic profile.

  • StatewideAP rigor at the 54th percentile nationally.
  • vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Central Bay High (continuation), Diamond Technology Institute, Renaissance High Continuation and 2 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.

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🎓 Academic rigor

AP + advanced-course offerings

Strong — solid AP program + advanced courses

54th percentile nationally

50th 90th ↑ this school
Less rigorMore rigorMost rigor
Advanced math classes
13
7 calculus · 6 advanced
Lab science classes
28
5 physics · 23 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

Bottom 1% by test-taker volume

50th 90th
SAT/ACT test-takers
1
11th-12th graders who took 1+ college admissions test
Test-taking intensity
2.8
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.

🏛️ Federal Title I context

High-poverty school

Title I Schoolwide eligible

83.7%
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.

University of California outcomes · Class of 2024
UC Reach
N/A
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 / 26 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
43:1
1.0 FTE counselors · 43 students
In context: CA median 338:1 · 295 fewer students per counselor · ASCA target 250:1.
Selective UC Reach (UCSD, UCSB, UCI, UCD)
N/A
Elite UC Reach (UCB + UCLA)
N/A
Senior Class Size
26
CDE grade 12 (exact)
Total School Enrollment
74
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 Santa Barbara → 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 = 12
66.7%
incl. 16.7% exceeded
On the Santa Cruz County median (66.1%) · CA median 54.3% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 79.3%
Math — met or exceeded
n = 12
41.7%
incl. 25.0% exceeded
+7.5 pts above Santa Cruz County median (34.2%) · 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 — 2024-25

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 86% +4.9
White 8% -5.8
Asian 3% +1.2
Black / African Am. 3% +1.2

Program subgroups

Source: California Department of Education, Census Day Enrollment 2024-25 (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
37.8%
17 of 45 students

Absenteeism is up 37.8 pp since 2020-21. A rising absenteeism trend often precedes formal departure — worth investigating which subgroups are driving it.

Santa Cruz County median
18.8% · school is worse than 86% of 14 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)
313 (2021)43 (2025)
-86.3%
Grade 12 (graduating class)
15 (2021)9 (2025)
-40.0%

If this trend holds (-39.1%/yr, Total enrollment)

At per-pupil funding of $ / student:

Horizon Projected Total enrollment Change Funding impact / yr
1 yr (2026) ~26 -17 $0
3 yr (2028) ~10 -33 $0
5 yr (2030) ~4 -39 $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.

Pvusd Virtual Academy — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot

Public · Watsonville · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools

  • Senior-class enrollment is down 40% (15→9 from 2021 to 2025), trailing the peer-group median of -18%.
  • At its recent rate (-39.1%/yr), enrollment projects to ~10 by 2028 — about 33 fewer students than today.

Enrollment projection

43 students (2025)
~10 projected (2028)
at -39.1%/yr

That's about 33 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
Pvusd Virtual Academy Public 43 -40%
Peer-group median -18%
Central Bay High (continuation) Public 38 -22%
Diamond Technology Institute Public 89 +200%
Renaissance High Continuation Public 82 -32%
Open Door Charter Public 49 +78%
Costanoa Continuation High Public 67 +0%
Central High (continuation) Public 63 -43%
Phoenix High Public 59 -13%
Delta Charter Public 114 -29%
San Andreas Continuation High Public 75 -5%
Mt. Madonna High Public 141 -43%

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 Santa Cruz 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 -40.0% vs. county +1.3% AND stability (71.1%) below the county median. Recruitment and retention both under pressure — likely a foundational rather than tactical problem. Chronic absenteeism is also at 45.8% (up +45.8 pts from 2020-21) — engagement and demand are both signaling decline.

-40.0%  school enrollment (2021–2025)
+1.3%  Santa Cruz County baseline
-41.3pp  gap vs. county
71.1%  retention (county median 90.8%)
Enrollment — indexed to 100 at 2021
Stability rate by year (raw %)
Stability rate
71.1%
32 of 45 students

13 of 45 students who enrolled at Pvusd Virtual Academy this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (28.9% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.

Santa Cruz County median
90.8% · school is in the 20th percentile of 15 HS
Statewide median
87.2% · in the 24th percentile of 1,688 HS

Stability by student group

Hispanic / Latino (49) 65.3%
Socio. disadvantaged (49) 67.3%

Nearest peer high schools

Central Bay High (continuation) 44.2% Diamond Technology Institute 93.2% Renaissance High Continuation 28.3% Open Door Charter 21.2% Costanoa Continuation High 44.0%

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.

District financial profile — Pajaro 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
$341.2M
+16.9% since FY2017
Per-pupil revenue
$18,204
18,743 students enrolled
Revenue mix
State: 54.9%
Local: 28.7%
Federal: 16.4%
Instruction share
52.9%
of current spending · $8,526/pupil
Long-term debt
$203.6M
+2.5% since FY2017
Total revenue by year ($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 Pajaro 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).

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.
Compare with other schools → See Santa Cruz County rankings →

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