Alta Vista Alternative High
Santa Barbara · CA · Santa Barbara Unified · Public
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La Cuesta Continuation High → Santa Barbara County ROP-South → Golden Valley Charter → Santa Barbara County Juvenile Court → Renaissance High → The High School at Moorpark College → Maple High → Pacific High →At a glance
- Dual-enrollment program (college credit while in HS)
- Gifted & talented program
- AP rigor: Bottom 29% of US high schools
- SAT/ACT participation: Bottom 4% by test-taker volume
- 4-yr grad rate: 82% in 2019 (Bottom 29% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts graduation data, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
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How Alta Vista Alternative High compares for families
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- ▸ LocallyCA trails the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (−4 points). Stronger local schools matter even more.
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: La Cuesta Continuation High, Santa Barbara County ROP-South, Golden Valley Charter and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-21Bottom 4% by test-taker volume
Source: 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 29% 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 -0.4%/year, projecting from 2024's 119 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| La Cuesta Continuation High Santa Barbara |
Public | 0.0 | 77 | -33.0% |
| Santa Barbara County ROP-South Santa Barbara |
Public | 4.7 | — | — |
| Golden Valley Charter Ventura |
Public · charter | 27.7 | 107 | -3.6% |
| Santa Barbara County Juvenile Court Santa Barbara |
Public | 4.7 | 30 | — |
| Renaissance High Santa Paula |
Public | 35.8 | 113 | -5.0% |
| The High School at Moorpark College Moorpark |
Public | 49.8 | 121 | +21.0% |
| Maple High Lompoc |
Public | 48.0 | 135 | +7.1% |
| Pacific High Ventura |
Public | 27.9 | 213 | +7.0% |
At a glance
JSON · Using this page with an AI assistantAlta Vista Alternative High is a public high school in Santa Barbara, CA, enrolling 119 students in grades 9-12 in 2024.
Enrollment is up 3% from 2021 to 2024.
2 students took the SAT or ACT in the most recent federal count, a participation level above 4% of U.S. high schools.
Its federal four-year graduation rate was about 82% in the latest EDFacts release.
Sources: National Center for Education Statistics (enrollment), the federal Civil Rights Data Collection and EDFacts, state education agencies where named, and the school's own published documents where named.
Questions families ask
What is Alta Vista Alternative High's graduation rate? Alta Vista Alternative High's federal four-year graduation rate was about 82% in the latest EDFacts release.
How many students attend Alta Vista Alternative High? Alta Vista Alternative High is a public high school in Santa Barbara, CA, enrolling 119 students in grades 9-12 in 2024.
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