Corona-Norco Alternative
Corona · CA · Corona-Norco Unified · Public · K-12 combined
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Excelsior Charter School Corona-Norco → Sunshine Special Education → Canyon Hills → Riverside County Juvenile Court → OUSD Home Sch → George Key → Gateway → California School for the Deaf-Riverside →📋 At a glance
- ✅ Gifted & talented program
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 14% of US high schools
- 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 77% (Bottom 25% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Corona-Norco Alternative compares for families
What families should know about Corona-Norco 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: Excelsior Charter School Corona-Norco, Sunshine Special Education, Canyon Hills 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 25% 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.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of -68.9%/year, projecting from 2023's 73 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Excelsior Charter School Corona-Norco Corona |
Public · charter | 1.1 | 96 | +4.3% |
| Sunshine Special Education Riverside |
Public | 8.5 | 74 | +42.3% |
| Canyon Hills Anaheim |
Public | 12.6 | 104 | -10.3% |
| Riverside County Juvenile Court Riverside |
Public | 13.8 | 102 | +15.9% |
| OUSD Home Sch Orange |
Public | 15.6 | 52 | — |
| George Key Placentia |
Public | 16.7 | 101 | -4.7% |
| Gateway Riverside |
Public | 5.4 | — | — |
| California School for the Deaf-Riverside Riverside |
Public | 12.4 | 131 | -10.9% |