Liberty Alternative
San Jose · CA · San Jose Unified · Public · K-12 combined
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B. Roberto Cruz Leadership Academy → KIPP Navigate College Prep → Summit Public School: Tahoma → ACE Charter High → Downtown College Prep - Alum Rock → Santa Clara County Special Education → Alpha Cindy Avitia High → University Preparatory Academy Charter →📋 At a glance
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 6% of US high schools
- 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 62% (Bottom 12% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Liberty Alternative compares for families
What families should know about Liberty Alternative.
- ▸ LocallyCA trails the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (−4 points). Stronger local schools matter even more.
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: B. Roberto Cruz Leadership Academy, KIPP Navigate College Prep, Summit Public School: Tahoma and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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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 12% 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.
👩🏫 Teacher workforce · federal CRDC
Teacher experience & reliability
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2017-18 — the most recent vintage that publishes per-school teacher quality fields; the 2020-21 sweep had them suppressed). "Inexperienced" = teachers in their first or second year. "Chronic absence" = teachers absent 10+ days/year.
🏛️ 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.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of -13.7%/year, projecting from 2024's 274 students:
≈ 143 fewer students by 2029 — a real revenue/relevance risk worth getting ahead of.
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Revenue at risk
At $18,618 per student in district revenue, the 143 students projected to be lost by 2029 represent ≈ $2,662,374/year in funding at risk.
District total revenue ÷ enrollment, NCES F-33. Public funding largely follows enrollment, so a shrinking class is a recurring budget hit.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B. Roberto Cruz Leadership Academy San Jose |
Public · charter | 7.3 | 261 | +2.8% |
| KIPP Navigate College Prep San Jose |
Public · charter | 6.7 | 297 | -16.6% |
| Summit Public School: Tahoma San Jose |
Public · charter | 2.4 | 383 | +3.2% |
| ACE Charter High San Jose |
Public · charter | 7.3 | 313 | -24.0% |
| Downtown College Prep - Alum Rock San Jose |
Public · charter | 7.3 | 208 | -30.7% |
| Santa Clara County Special Education San Jose |
Public | 8.7 | 345 | -23.0% |
| Alpha Cindy Avitia High San Jose |
Public · charter | 5.3 | 405 | -18.2% |
| University Preparatory Academy Charter San Jose |
Public · charter | 2.1 | 478 | +0.8% |