Mark Twain Special Center
Garden Grove · CA · Garden Grove Unified · Public · K-12 combined
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Jordan Secondary Learning Center → Creekside High → Unity Middle College High → George Key → OUSD Home Sch → Canyon Hills → Irvine Adult Transition Programs → ACCESS Juvenile Hall →📋 At a glance
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 6% of US high schools
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Mark Twain Special Center compares for families
What families should know about Mark Twain Special Center.
- ▸ LocallyCA trails the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (−4 points). Stronger local schools matter even more.
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Jordan Secondary Learning Center, Creekside High, Unity Middle College High 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.
👩🏫 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 +12.3%/year, projecting from 2024's 101 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jordan Secondary Learning Center Garden Grove |
Public | 2.3 | 97 | -5.8% |
| Creekside High Irvine |
Public | 9.7 | 78 | -28.4% |
| Unity Middle College High Orange |
Public · charter | 3.6 | 57 | -43.6% |
| George Key Placentia |
Public | 9.1 | 101 | -4.7% |
| OUSD Home Sch Orange |
Public | 6.3 | 52 | — |
| Canyon Hills Anaheim |
Public | 9.3 | 104 | -10.3% |
| Irvine Adult Transition Programs Irvine |
Public | 10.7 | 117 | +36.0% |
| ACCESS Juvenile Hall Costa Mesa |
Public | 2.8 | 169 | -5.6% |