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Buena Vista High (Continuation) → Cuyama Valley High → Nueva Continuation High → Central Valley High (Continuation) → Valley High → La Cuesta Continuation High → Kern County Special Education → Wasco Independence High →At a glance
- AP rigor: Bottom 22% of US high schools
- SAT/ACT participation: Bottom 1% by test-taker volume
- 4-yr grad rate: 69% in 2019 (Bottom 14% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts graduation data, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Maricopa High compares for families
What families should know about Maricopa 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: Buena Vista High (Continuation), Cuyama Valley High, Nueva Continuation High and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-21Bottom 1% 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 14% 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
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 -7.2%/year, projecting from 2024's 72 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buena Vista High (Continuation) Taft |
Public | 7.5 | 85 | +26.9% |
| Cuyama Valley High New Cuyama |
Public | 17.1 | 55 | +5.8% |
| Nueva Continuation High Lamont |
Public | 31.3 | 79 | -15.1% |
| Central Valley High (Continuation) Shafter |
Public | 32.3 | 86 | +1.2% |
| Valley High Delano |
Public | 51.2 | 71 | +29.1% |
| La Cuesta Continuation High Santa Barbara |
Public | 46.8 | 77 | -33.0% |
| Kern County Special Education Bakersfield |
Public | 31.1 | 45 | — |
| Wasco Independence High Wasco |
Public | 36.9 | 109 | -18.7% |
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