Vantage Point Charter
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Silver Springs High (continuation) → Bitney Prep High → Victory High → Feather River Academy → Confluence Continuation High → Compare all similar →No UC admissions data on file for Vantage Point Charter.
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
If this trend holds (+0.0%/yr, Total enrollment)
At per-pupil funding of $ / student:
| Horizon | Projected Total enrollment | Change | Funding impact / yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 yr (2027) | ~37 | +0 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2029) | ~37 | +0 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2031) | ~37 | +0 | $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 Nevada County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.
Enrollment growth is beating Nevada County (-35.7% vs. -40.8%), but 18 of 33 students didn't maintain continuous enrollment. Why are families leaving once enrolled? Chronic absenteeism is also at 29.6% (up +29.6 pts from 2016-17) — engagement and demand are both signaling decline.
18 of 33 students who enrolled at Vantage Point Charter this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (54.5% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.
Stability by student group
Nearest peer high schools
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.
Absenteeism is up 33.3 pp since 2016-17. A rising absenteeism trend often precedes formal departure — worth investigating which subgroups are driving it.
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).
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
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 — Penn Valley Union Elementary (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.
Local: 63.9%
Federal: 12.3%
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 Penn Valley Union Elementary 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).
Vantage Point Charter — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot
Public · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools
- ▸Senior-class enrollment is down 36% (14→9 from 2018 to 2026), trailing the peer-group median of +17%.
- ▸In business terms, this is market-share growth during a market contraction. Nevada County's senior population shrank 41% over the same window — Vantage Point Charter only shrank 36%. So Vantage Point Charter picked up about 5 percentage points of relative share — families chose it over the alternatives even as the overall pool got smaller. That's overperforming the market in a shrinking market.
Enrollment projection
Your school vs. its 10 most similar nearby schools
| School | Type | Size | UC Reach | Enroll. trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vantage Point Charter | Public | 37 | — | -36% |
| Peer-group median | — | +17% | ||
| Silver Springs High (continuation) | Public | 94 | — | -29% |
| Bitney Prep High | Public | 93 | — | +35% |
| Victory High | Public | 43 | — | -47% |
| Feather River Academy | Public | 26 | — | -70% |
| Confluence Continuation High | Public | 75 | — | +104% |
| John Adams Academy | Public | 26 | — | +0% |
| William & Marian Ghidotti High | Public | 167 | — | +12% |
| Phoenix High (continuation) | Public | 95 | — | +21% |
| Ipakanni Early College Charter | Public | 66 | — | +50% |
| Valley Oak Continuation High | Public | 17 | — | +25% |
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 →