Castro Valley Virtual Academy
Castro Valley · CA · Castro Valley Unified · Public · K-12 combined
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Alameda County Juvenile Hall/Court → Valley High (Continuation) → Brenkwitz High → Del Amigo High (Continuation) → Roy A. Johnson High → Royal Sunset (Continuation) → Eden Area ROP → Alternatives in Action →📋 At a glance
- 📚 1 AP courses offered — Moderate
- ✅ Gifted & talented program
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 44% of US high schools
- 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 75% (Bottom 21% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Castro Valley Virtual Academy compares for families
Solid mid-tier academic profile.
- ▸ LocallyCA trails the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (−4 points). Stronger local schools matter even more.
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Alameda County Juvenile Hall/Court, Valley High (Continuation), Brenkwitz High and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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🎓 Academic rigor
AP + advanced-course offerings
Moderate — some AP / advanced course access
Bottom 44% 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.
🎓 4-year graduation rate · federal EDFacts
What % of students graduate on time?
Bottom 21% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate
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
Title I Schoolwide eligible
≥40% FRPL — qualifies for Title I Schoolwide program
40-74% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. The district can use Title I funds across the whole school under federal Schoolwide Program rules.
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 -47.2%/year, projecting from 2024's 45 students:
A small or specialty program — naive trend math doesn't capture the school's full picture. Read the trend as directional, not predictive.
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
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| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alameda County Juvenile Hall/Court San Leandro |
Public | 1.4 | 55 | +0.0% |
| Valley High (Continuation) Dublin |
Public | 9.2 | 36 | — |
| Brenkwitz High Hayward |
Public | 2.8 | 76 | -51.3% |
| Del Amigo High (Continuation) San Ramon |
Public | 10.9 | 34 | — |
| Roy A. Johnson High Castro Valley |
Public | 0.0 | 18 | — |
| Royal Sunset (Continuation) Hayward |
Public | 3.3 | 107 | +105.8% |
| Eden Area ROP Hayward |
Public | 5.2 | — | — |
| Alternatives in Action Oakland |
Public · charter | 6.6 | 106 | -29.3% |