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Santa Barbara County Community → Santa Barbara County Special Education → San Luis Obispo County Juvenile Court → Dr Bob Forinash Community Day → Santa Barbara County ROP-South → Eagle Canyon High → Santa Barbara County Juvenile Court → San Luis County Special Education →📋 At a glance
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 6% 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 Refugio High compares for families
What families should know about Refugio High.
- ▸ LocallyCA trails the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (−4 points). Stronger local schools matter even more.
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Santa Barbara County Community, Santa Barbara County Special Education, San Luis Obispo County Juvenile Court 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 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.
👩🏫 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 Targeted Assistance eligible
35-39% FRPL — qualifies for Title I Targeted Assistance
35-39% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. The school can receive Title I funds targeted to identified students (not schoolwide).
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 +3.5%/year, projecting from 2024's 11 students:
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Barbara County Community Santa Barbara |
Public | 21.7 | 11 | — |
| Santa Barbara County Special Education Santa Barbara |
Public | 21.7 | 15 | — |
| San Luis Obispo County Juvenile Court San Luis Obispo |
Public | 60.5 | 11 | — |
| Dr Bob Forinash Community Day Lompoc |
Public | 20.6 | 26 | — |
| Santa Barbara County ROP-South Santa Barbara |
Public | 21.7 | — | — |
| Eagle Canyon High Templeton |
Public | 73.4 | 13 | — |
| Santa Barbara County Juvenile Court Santa Barbara |
Public | 21.7 | 30 | — |
| San Luis County Special Education San Luis Obispo |
Public | 62.0 | 7 | — |