City Heights Preparatory Charter
San Diego · CA · City Heights Preparatory Charter District · Public charter · K-12 combined
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- 📚 1 AP courses offered — Limited
- ✅ Gifted & talented program
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 18% of US high schools
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How City Heights Preparatory Charter compares for families
What families should know about City Heights Preparatory Charter.
- ▸ LocallyCA trails the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (−4 points). Stronger local schools matter even more.
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: America's Finest Charter, Riley/New Dawn, Urban Discovery Academy Charter and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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🎓 Academic rigor
AP + advanced-course offerings
Limited — narrow advanced curriculum
Bottom 18% of US high schools
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 · 2020-21Source: 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
≥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.
Counselor capacity
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020-2021. Counselor ratio = the school's most recent total enrollment ÷ counselor FTE. The American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommends a 250:1 maximum; the US national median across schools with on-staff counselors is roughly 430:1.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of +9.4%/year, projecting from 2024's 160 students:
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Most similar nearby high schools
The schools most like this one — same type, blended on distance and size — and where their enrollment is heading. These are the schools families here weigh against each other.
| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| America's Finest Charter San Diego |
Public · charter | 3.0 | 86 | -21.8% |
| Riley/New Dawn San Diego |
Public | 6.9 | 63 | -17.1% |
| Urban Discovery Academy Charter San Diego |
Public · charter | 5.0 | 51 | -50.5% |
| East Hills Academy Chula Vista |
Public | 11.9 | 65 | +20.4% |
| The Learning Choice Academy - East County La Mesa |
Public · charter | 3.9 | 165 | +35.2% |
| Options Secondary San Diego |
Public | 11.8 | 57 | -1.7% |
| Mountain Valley Academy Ramona |
Public | 22.2 | 87 | -16.3% |
| Sunset High (Continuation) Encinitas |
Public | 23.1 | 87 | -13.9% |