Esperanza High
Cutler · CA · Cutler-Orosi Joint Unified · Public · K-12 combined
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Cutler-Orosi Community Day → Lovell High → Lindsay Community Day → Exeter Community Day → Kaweah High → Fowler Academy Continuation → Valley ROP → Countryside Community Day →📋 At a glance
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 6% of US high schools
- 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 10% (Bottom 1% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Esperanza High compares for families
What families should know about Esperanza 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: Cutler-Orosi Community Day, Lovell High, Lindsay Community Day 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 1% 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.
🏛️ Federal Title I context
High-poverty school
Title I Schoolwide eligible
≥75% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. These schools qualify for the highest tier of federal Title I funding and typically receive extra wraparound services. Academic outcomes vary widely — check the state assessment + grad-rate tiles.
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 -31.7%/year, projecting from 2024's 19 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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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cutler-Orosi Community Day Cutler |
Public | 0.0 | 6 | — |
| Lovell High Cutler |
Public | 0.0 | 54 | — |
| Lindsay Community Day Lindsay |
Public | 23.4 | 14 | — |
| Exeter Community Day Exeter |
Public | 16.4 | 9 | — |
| Kaweah High Exeter |
Public | 16.7 | 29 | — |
| Fowler Academy Continuation Fowler |
Public | 22.9 | 22 | — |
| Valley ROP Reedley |
Public | 11.4 | — | — |
| Countryside Community Day Tulare |
Public | 21.5 | 24 | — |