Merced County Special Education
Merced · CA · Merced County Office of Education · Public · K-12 combined
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Yosemite High (Continuation) → Merced County ROP → Merced Scholars Charter → Come Back Charter → Valley Merced Community → Valley Atwater Community → Sequoia High → Delhi High →📋 At a glance
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 6% of US high schools
- 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 24% (Bottom 4% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Merced County Special Education compares for families
What families should know about Merced County Special Education.
- ▸ LocallyCA trails the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (−4 points). Stronger local schools matter even more.
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Yosemite High (Continuation), Merced County ROP, Merced Scholars Charter 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 4% 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 +5.2%/year, projecting from 2024's 942 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yosemite High (Continuation) Merced |
Public | 0.8 | 342 | +14.8% |
| Merced County ROP Merced |
Public | 0.0 | — | — |
| Merced Scholars Charter Merced |
Public · charter | 1.2 | 139 | +27.5% |
| Come Back Charter Merced |
Public · charter | 2.5 | 128 | +66.2% |
| Valley Merced Community Merced |
Public | 1.1 | 90 | -47.7% |
| Valley Atwater Community Atwater |
Public | 7.7 | 107 | — |
| Sequoia High Merced |
Public | 0.9 | 77 | -20.6% |
| Delhi High Delhi |
Public | 18.8 | 710 | -8.9% |