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Val Verde Academy

Perris · Riverside County · Val Verde Unified · Public

Public Riverside County 🏛 Val Verde Unified → CDS 3375242…
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📘Top 25% ELA · SBAC (CA)

📋 At a glance

Programs & features
  • 📚 2 AP courses offered — Strong
  • ✅ Gifted & talented program
  • 🔢 1 calculus classes · 1 physics · 1 chemistry
Academic signals
  • 🎓 AP rigor: 52th percentile nationally
  • 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 90% (Bottom 49% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)

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

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How Val Verde Academy compares for families

Solid mid-tier academic profile.

  • StatewideAP rigor at the 52th percentile nationally with 2 AP courses.
  • vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Leadership Military Academy, Perris Lake High (continuation), Audeo Valley Charter School 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

52th percentile nationally

50th 90th ↑ this school
Less rigorMore rigorMost rigor
AP courses offered
2
Math ✓ · Science ✓
Advanced math classes
1
1 calculus · 0 advanced
Lab science classes
2
1 physics · 1 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
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?

Bottom 49% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate

50th 90th
4-year graduation rate
90%
Range: 80–100%
4-year cohort size
17
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

85.4%
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 = 19
73.7%
incl. 31.6% exceeded
+24.0 pts above Riverside County median (49.7%) · CA median 54.3% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 79.3%
Math — met or exceeded
n = 19
10.5%
incl. 0.0% exceeded
-5.2 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 79% -1.1
Black / African Am. 13% +2.2
White 3% -3.1
Two or more 3% +1.5
Filipino 2% +1.2
Not reported 1%

Program subgroups

Students w/ disabilities 71% -14.0
Socioeconomically disadv. 53% +13.2
English learners 17% +2.8

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
22.3%
29 of 130 students

Absenteeism is up 13.3 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 69% 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)
1 (2018)127 (2026)
+12600.0%
Grade 12 (graduating class)
3 (2023)74 (2026)
+2366.7%

If this trend holds (+83.2%/yr, Total enrollment)

At per-pupil funding of $ / student:

Horizon Projected Total enrollment Change Funding impact / yr
1 yr (2027) ~233 +106 $0
3 yr (2029) ~781 +654 $0
5 yr (2031) ~2,622 +2495 $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.

Val Verde Academy — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot

Public · Perris · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools

  • Senior-class enrollment is up 2367% (3→74 from 2023 to 2026), outpacing the peer-group median of -24%.
  • Enrollment has been growing (+83.2%/yr); projects to ~781 by 2029.

Enrollment projection

127 students (2026)
~781 projected (2029)
at +83.2%/yr

Your school vs. its 10 most similar nearby schools

School Type Size UC Reach Enroll. trend
Val Verde Academy Public 127 +2367%
Peer-group median -24%
Leadership Military Academy Public 134 -40%
Perris Lake High (continuation) Public 171 -23%
Audeo Valley Charter School Public 192 -48%
Abraham Lincoln Continuation Public 99 -14%
Raincross High (continuation) Public 92 -6%
San Jacinto Middle College High Public 136 +2300%
Alvord High Public 105 -24%
Mountain Heights Academy Public 105 -41%
Mission View High Public 90 -39%
March Mountain High School Public 286 +9%

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.

Mixed signal
Demand outpacing county is masking internal churn.

Enrollment growth is beating Riverside County (+2366.7% vs. -2.9%), but 38 of 140 students didn't maintain continuous enrollment. Why are families leaving once enrolled?

+2366.7%  school enrollment (2023–2026)
-2.9%  Riverside County baseline
+2369.6pp  gap vs. county
72.9%  retention (county median 85.4%)
Enrollment — indexed to 100 at 2023
Stability rate by year (raw %)
Stability rate
72.9%
102 of 140 students

38 of 140 students who enrolled at Val Verde Academy this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (27.1% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.

Riverside County median
85.4% · school is in the 31st percentile of 94 HS
Statewide median
87.2% · in the 24th percentile of 1,688 HS

Stability by student group

Socio. disadvantaged (151) 77.5%
Hispanic / Latino (133) 77.4%
Students w/ disabilities (66) 83.3%
English learners (27) 85.2%
Black / African Am. (23) 69.6%

Nearest peer high schools

Leadership Military Academy 60.3% Perris Lake High (continuation) 29.4% Audeo Valley Charter School 53.7% Abraham Lincoln Continuation 37.7% Raincross High (continuation) 32.4%

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 — Val Verde 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
$550.4M
+7.1% since FY2017
Per-pupil revenue
$28,513
19,303 students enrolled
Revenue mix
State: 66.7%
Local: 15.1%
Federal: 18.2%
Instruction share
56.5%
of current spending · $8,240/pupil
Long-term debt
$250.8M
+16.8% since FY2017
Total revenue by year ($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 Val Verde 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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