Urban Discovery Academy Charter
San Diego · CA · Urban Discovery Academy Charter District · Public charter · K-12 combined
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Riley/New Dawn → Options Secondary → Home & Hosp/Transition Support → America's Finest Charter → City Heights Preparatory Charter → East Hills Academy → Greater San Diego Academy → San Diego County ROP →📋 At a glance
- ✅ Dual-enrollment program (college credit while in HS)
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 29% of US high schools
- 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 69% (Bottom 14% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Urban Discovery Academy Charter compares for families
What families should know about Urban Discovery Academy Charter.
- ▸ LocallyCA trails the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (−4 points). Stronger local schools matter even more.
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Riley/New Dawn, Options Secondary, Home & Hosp/Transition Support 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.
🎓 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.
🏛️ 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 330 students:
≈ 159 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.
Revenue at risk
At $12,746 per student in district revenue, the 159 students projected to be lost by 2029 represent ≈ $2,026,614/year in funding at risk.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Riley/New Dawn San Diego |
Public | 6.8 | 63 | -17.1% |
| Options Secondary San Diego |
Public | 10.3 | 57 | -1.7% |
| Home & Hosp/Transition Support San Diego |
Public | 2.8 | 31 | — |
| America's Finest Charter San Diego |
Public · charter | 3.2 | 86 | -21.8% |
| City Heights Preparatory Charter San Diego |
Public · charter | 5.0 | 83 | +20.3% |
| East Hills Academy Chula Vista |
Public | 12.8 | 65 | +20.4% |
| Greater San Diego Academy Jamul |
Public · charter | 17.2 | 41 | — |
| San Diego County ROP San Diego |
Public | 4.2 | — | — |