SOAR High (Students On Academic Rise)
Lancaster · CA · Antelope Valley Union High · Public
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Desert Sands Charter → Desert Winds Continuation High → R. Rex Parris High → Palmdale Aerospace Academy → Antelope Valley Learning Academy → Rosamond High Early College Campus → Antelope Valley High → Vasquez High →📋 At a glance
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 29% of US high schools
- 📝 SAT/ACT participation: 65th percentile by test-taker volume
- 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 97% (90th percentile nationally)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How SOAR High (Students On Academic Rise) compares for families
What families should know about SOAR High (Students On Academic Rise).
- ▸ LocallyCA trails the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (−4 points). Stronger local schools matter even more.
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Desert Sands Charter, Desert Winds Continuation High, R. Rex Parris High and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-2165th percentile 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?
90th percentile nationally
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 +13.7%/year, projecting from 2024's 670 students:
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Revenue upside
At $16,006 per student in district revenue, the 605 students projected to be gained by 2029 represent ≈ $9,683,630/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.
| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Desert Sands Charter Lancaster |
Public · charter | 1.4 | 727 | +3.1% |
| Desert Winds Continuation High Lancaster |
Public | 4.0 | 605 | -15.3% |
| R. Rex Parris High Palmdale |
Public | 7.4 | 469 | -26.1% |
| Palmdale Aerospace Academy Palmdale |
Public · charter | 9.7 | 982 | -2.7% |
| Antelope Valley Learning Academy Palmdale |
Public · charter | 11.7 | 898 | -3.9% |
| Rosamond High Early College Campus Rosamond |
Public | 12.9 | 927 | +11.2% |
| Antelope Valley High Lancaster |
Public | 3.6 | 1,498 | +2.7% |
| Vasquez High Acton |
Public | 13.0 | 394 | +11.6% |