River Delta High/Elementary (alternative)

· Sacramento County · River Delta Joint Unified
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No UC admissions data on file for River Delta High/Elementary (alternative).

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)
17 (2018)13 (2026)
-23.5%
Grade 12 (graduating class)
8 (2018)8 (2026)
+0.0%

If this trend holds (-3.3%/yr, Total enrollment)

At per-pupil funding of $ / student:

Horizon Projected Total enrollment Change Funding impact / yr
1 yr (2027) ~13 +0 $0
3 yr (2029) ~12 -1 $0
5 yr (2031) ~11 -2 $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 Sacramento 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 0.0% vs. county +3.0%, AND stability (32.0%) below the county median. Fewer families are choosing the school, and the ones who do aren't staying through year-end.

+0.0%  school enrollment (2018–2026)
+3.0%  Sacramento County baseline
-3.0pp  gap vs. county
32.0%  retention (county median 80.8%)
Enrollment — indexed to 100 at 2018
Stability rate by year (raw %)
Stability rate
32.0%
8 of 25 students

17 of 25 students who enrolled at River Delta High/Elementary (alternative) this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (68.0% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.

Sacramento County median
80.8% · school is in the 12th percentile of 77 HS
Statewide median
87.2% · in the 8th percentile of 1,688 HS

Stability by student group

Socio. disadvantaged (32) 28.1%
White (25) 36.0%

Nearest peer high schools

Mokelumne High (continuation) 0.0% Solano County Juvenile Detention Facility - Evergreen Academy 2.5% Shereene Wilkerson Academy Of Excellence 7.7% Glenbrook Academy 68.2% Maine Prairie High (continuation) 35.9%

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
8.3%
2 of 24 students

Absenteeism is up 8.3 pp since 2016-17. A rising absenteeism trend often precedes formal departure — worth investigating which subgroups are driving it.

Sacramento County median
25.8% · school is better than 91% of 75 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, 2023

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 = —
45.5%
incl. 9.1% exceeded
Math — met or exceeded
n = —
0.0%
incl. 0.0% exceeded

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 46% +8.1
Hispanic / Latino 23% -19.8
Two or more 23% +18.3
Not reported 8%

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 — River Delta Joint 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
$30.0M
+2.0% since FY2017
Per-pupil revenue
$15,992
1,874 students enrolled
Revenue mix
State: 40.2%
Local: 50.1%
Federal: 9.7%
Instruction share
54.6%
of current spending · $7,611/pupil
Long-term debt
$29.8M
+118.3% since FY2017
Total revenue by year ($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 River Delta Joint 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).

River Delta High/Elementary (alternative) — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot

Public · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools

  • Senior-class enrollment is up 0% (8→8 from 2018 to 2026), outpacing the peer-group median of -12%.
  • At its recent rate (-3.3%/yr), enrollment projects to ~12 by 2029 — about 1 fewer students than today.

Enrollment projection

13 students (2026)
~12 projected (2029)
at -3.3%/yr

That's about 1 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
River Delta High/Elementary (alternative) Public 13 +0%
Peer-group median -12%
Mokelumne High (continuation) Public 6 -67%
Solano County Juvenile Detention Facility - Evergreen Academy Public 20 -10%
Shereene Wilkerson Academy Of Excellence Public 7 +33%
Glenbrook Academy Public 32 +300%
Maine Prairie High (continuation) Public 50 -56%
Golden Gate Community School Public 74 -38%
Liberty High Public 89 -36%
Bidwell Continuation High Public 147 -14%
Live Oak High (continuation) Public 155 +20%
Plaza Robles Continuation High Public 104 +6%

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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