Santa Clara County Special Education
San Jose · CA · Santa Clara County Office of Education · Public · K-12 combined
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Opportunity Youth Academy → ACE Charter High → Alpha Cindy Avitia High → KIPP Navigate College Prep → Foothill High → Latino College Preparatory Academy → B. Roberto Cruz Leadership Academy → KIPP San Jose Collegiate →At a glance
- 4-yr grad rate: 2% in 2019 (Bottom 0% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)
Composed from EDFacts graduation data, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
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4-year graduation rate · federal EDFacts
What % of students graduate on time?
Bottom 0% 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
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.
Counselor capacity
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 -6.1%/year, projecting from 2024's 771 students:
≈ 209 fewer students by 2029 — a real revenue/relevance risk worth getting ahead of.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opportunity Youth Academy San Jose |
Public · charter | 0.0 | 283 | -8.1% |
| ACE Charter High San Jose |
Public · charter | 2.6 | 313 | -24.0% |
| Alpha Cindy Avitia High San Jose |
Public · charter | 5.3 | 405 | -18.2% |
| KIPP Navigate College Prep San Jose |
Public · charter | 5.8 | 297 | -16.6% |
| Foothill High San Jose |
Public | 3.6 | 268 | +7.2% |
| Latino College Preparatory Academy San Jose |
Public · charter | 4.9 | 421 | -0.2% |
| B. Roberto Cruz Leadership Academy San Jose |
Public · charter | 5.0 | 261 | +2.8% |
| KIPP San Jose Collegiate San Jose |
Public · charter | 2.5 | 512 | -4.5% |
At a glance
JSON · Using this page with an AI assistantSanta Clara County Special Education is a public high school in San Jose, CA, enrolling 771 students in grades 9-12 in 2024.
Enrollment is down 20% from 2021 to 2024.
Its federal four-year graduation rate was about 2% in the latest EDFacts release.
It has about 771 students per school counselor.
Sources: National Center for Education Statistics (enrollment), the federal Civil Rights Data Collection and EDFacts, state education agencies where named, and the school's own published documents where named.
Questions families ask
What is Santa Clara County Special Education's graduation rate? Santa Clara County Special Education's federal four-year graduation rate was about 2% in the latest EDFacts release.
How many students attend Santa Clara County Special Education? Santa Clara County Special Education is a public high school in San Jose, CA, enrolling 771 students in grades 9-12 in 2024.
Analysis: Test Prep Gurus (High School Reach, highschoolreach.com). These figures may be quoted with attribution to Test Prep Gurus.
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