Monarch River Academy

Porterville · CA · Monarch River Academy District · Public charter · K-12 combined


📋 At a glance

Programs & features
  • 📚 4 AP courses offered — Moderate
Academic signals
  • 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 37% of US high schools

Composed from federal CRDC offerings, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.

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How Monarch River Academy compares for families

Solid mid-tier academic profile.

  • LocallyCA trails the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (−4 points). Stronger local schools matter even more.
  • vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Sierra Charter, Dewolf Continuation High, School of Unlimited Learning and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.

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🎓 Academic rigor

AP + advanced-course offerings

Moderate — some AP / advanced course access

Bottom 37% of US high schools

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AP courses offered
4
Math ✓
Students taking AP courses
2
≈1 per 100 students · uptake, not just offerings
Other rigor signals
No dual-enrollment or gifted program reported

Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). CRDC reports what's offered + enrolled — it doesn't collect AP exam pass rates (College Board owns that data and doesn't release it school-level).

SAT / ACT participation

CRDC federal data · 2020-21
SAT/ACT test-takers
0
11th-12th graders who took 1+ college admissions test
Test-taking intensity
0.0
takers per 100 students in grades 9-12

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.

🏛️ Federal Title I context

Title I Schoolwide eligible

≥40% FRPL — qualifies for Title I Schoolwide program

49.3%
FRPL rate — % of students who qualify for the federal Free or Reduced-Price Lunch program. This is the underlying federal income-eligibility signal Title I designations are computed from (ESEA Sec. 1113).
0% (no FRPL) 35% TA · 40% Schoolwide 100% (universal FRPL)

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.

Counselor capacity

Student : Counselor
1338:1
Well above the US median — a real constraint on individualized college and course planning.
Counselor FTE
1.0
Full-time-equivalent school counselors on staff.
Teacher FTE
30
Full-time-equivalent classroom teachers.

Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020-2021. Counselor ratio = the school's most recent total enrollment ÷ counselor FTE. The American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommends a 250:1 maximum; the US national median across schools with on-staff counselors is roughly 430:1.

Enrollment trend & projection

Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).

If the recent trend holds…

At its recent rate of +6.2%/year, projecting from 2024's 1,338 students:

2025
1,421
2027
1,603
2029
1,808

An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.

Revenue upside

At $10,510 per student in district revenue, the 470 students projected to be gained by 2029 represent ≈ $4,939,700/year in additional funding.

District total revenue ÷ enrollment, NCES F-33. Public funding largely follows enrollment, so a shrinking class is a recurring budget hit.

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.

SchoolTypeMilesHS enrollmentTrend
Sierra Charter
Fresno
Public · charter 2.6 205 +4.6%
Dewolf Continuation High
Fresno
Public 4.2 182 +12.3%
School of Unlimited Learning
Fresno
Public · charter 3.9 199 +18.5%
Gateway High (Continuation)
Clovis
Public 5.2 215 +0.9%
Design Science Middle College High
Fresno
Public 2.5 243 -6.9%
Fresno County Special Education
Fresno
Public 4.3 249 +0.4%
Phillip J Patino School of Entrepreneurship
Fresno
Public 2.1 282 +7.6%
Career Technical Education Charter
Fresno
Public · charter 2.4 289 +16.5%

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