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Rosamond High Early College Campus

· Kern County · Southern Kern Unified · Public

Public Kern County 🏛 Southern Kern Unified → CDS 1563776…
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📋 At a glance

Programs & features
  • 📚 1 AP courses offered — Moderate
  • ✅ Gifted & talented program
Academic signals
  • 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 37% of US high schools
  • 📝 SAT/ACT participation: Bottom 7% by test-taker volume
  • 🎓 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 Rosamond High Early College Campus compares for families

Solid mid-tier academic profile.

  • vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Soar High (students On Academic Rise), Antelope Valley High School, Desert Sands Charter and 2 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.

🎓 Academic rigor

AP + advanced-course offerings

Moderate — some AP / advanced course access

Bottom 37% of US high schools

50th 90th ↑ this school
Less rigorMore rigorMost rigor
AP courses offered
1
Math ✓
Lab science classes
5
0 physics · 5 chemistry
Other rigor signals
✅ 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 7% by test-taker volume

50th 90th
SAT/ACT test-takers
4
11th-12th graders who took 1+ college admissions test
Test-taking intensity
0.4
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?

60th percentile nationally

50th 90th
4-year graduation rate
92%
Range: 90–94%
4-year cohort size
191
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

79.8%
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 = 209
33.0%
incl. 10.5% exceeded
-18.7 pts vs. Kern County median (51.7%) · CA median 54.3% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 79.3%
Math — met or exceeded
n = 211
9.9%
incl. 3.3% exceeded
-3.0 pts vs. Kern County median (12.9%) · 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 62% +1.9
White 22%
Black / African Am. 9%
Two or more 3%
Filipino 2%
Not reported 1%
Asian 1%

Program subgroups

Students w/ disabilities 80% -1.4
Socioeconomically disadv. 17% -3.2
English learners 12%
Homeless 8% +1.6

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.

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
27.3%
263 of 965 students

Absenteeism is up 8.9 pp since 2016-17. A rising absenteeism trend often precedes formal departure — worth investigating which subgroups are driving it.

Kern County median
19.6% · school is worse than 70% of 47 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)
827 (2018)907 (2026)
+9.7%
Grade 12 (graduating class)
192 (2018)209 (2026)
+8.9%

If this trend holds (+1.2%/yr, Total enrollment)

At per-pupil funding of $ / student:

Horizon Projected Total enrollment Change Funding impact / yr
1 yr (2027) ~918 +11 $0
3 yr (2029) ~939 +32 $0
5 yr (2031) ~961 +54 $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.

Rosamond High Early College Campus — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot

Public · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools

  • Senior-class enrollment is up 9% (192→209 from 2018 to 2026), outpacing the peer-group median of -12%.
  • Enrollment has been growing (+1.2%/yr); projects to ~939 by 2029.

Enrollment projection

907 students (2026)
~939 projected (2029)
at +1.2%/yr

Your school vs. its 10 most similar nearby schools

School Type Size UC Reach Enroll. trend
Rosamond High Early College Campus Public 907 +9%
Peer-group median 10.4% -12%
Soar High (students On Academic Rise) Public 720 +60%
Antelope Valley High School Public 1378 10.6% -12%
Desert Sands Charter Public 604 -63%
Antelope Valley Learning Academy Public 911 -56%
Palmdale Academy Charter Public 1075 10.0% +1%
Desert Winds Continuation High Public 468 -20%
Desert Junior-Senior High Public 507 -12%
Tehachapi High School Public 1249 10.9% -14%
California City High School Public 613 10.2% +6%
Mojave Jr./Sr. High Public 368 +27%

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 Kern 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 8.9% vs. county +12.7%, AND stability (80.0%) below the county median. Fewer families are choosing the school, and the ones who do aren't staying through year-end.

+8.9%  school enrollment (2018–2026)
+12.7%  Kern County baseline
-3.8pp  gap vs. county
80.0%  retention (county median 84.4%)
Enrollment — indexed to 100 at 2018
Stability rate by year (raw %)
Stability rate
80.0%
802 of 1,003 students

201 of 1,003 students who enrolled at Rosamond High Early College Campus this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (20.0% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.

Kern County median
84.4% · school is in the 36th percentile of 47 HS
Statewide median
87.2% · in the 29th percentile of 1,688 HS

Stability by student group

Socio. disadvantaged (810) 78.6%
Hispanic / Latino (609) 80.5%
White (216) 86.1%
Students w/ disabilities (197) 78.7%
English learners (120) 78.3%
Black / African Am. (119) 64.7%

Nearest peer high schools

Soar High (students On Academic Rise) 95.0% Antelope Valley High School 75.0% Desert Sands Charter 48.1% Antelope Valley Learning Academy 52.3% Palmdale Academy Charter 86.0%

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 — Southern Kern 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
$59.2M
+21.9% since FY2017
Per-pupil revenue
$17,595
3,366 students enrolled
Revenue mix
State: 64.3%
Local: 25.2%
Federal: 10.5%
Instruction share
57.8%
of current spending · $7,544/pupil
Long-term debt
$55.8M
+51.5% since FY2017
Total revenue by year ($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 Southern Kern 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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