Valor Academy High

North Hills · CA · Valor Academy High District · Public charter


📋 At a glance

Programs & features
  • 📚 7 AP courses offered — Elite
  • 🔢 3 calculus classes · 4 physics · 5 chemistry
Academic signals
  • 🎓 AP rigor: 70th percentile nationally
  • 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 82% (Bottom 29% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)

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

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How Valor Academy High compares for families

Stronger-than-average college-prep profile.

  • StatewideAP rigor at the 70th percentile nationally with 7 AP courses.
  • LocallyCA trails the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (−4 points). Stronger local schools matter even more.
  • vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: CHAMPS - Charter HS of Arts-Multimedia & Performing, Robert Fulton College Preparatory, PUC Lakeview Charter High and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.

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🎓 Academic rigor

AP + advanced-course offerings

Elite — exceptional AP + advanced course breadth

70th percentile nationally

50th 90th ↑ this school
Less rigorMore rigorMost rigor
AP courses offered
7
Math ✓ · Science ✓
Students taking AP courses
221
≈45 per 100 students · uptake, not just offerings
Advanced math classes
5
3 calculus · 2 advanced
Lab science classes
9
4 physics · 5 chemistry
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.

🎓 4-year graduation rate · federal EDFacts

What % of students graduate on time?

Bottom 29% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate

50th 90th
4-year graduation rate
82%
Range: 80–84%
4-year cohort size
113
Students in the 9th-grade entry class tracked over 4 years
Compared against
17,988
US high schools reporting 4-year ACGR

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

High-poverty school

Title I Schoolwide eligible

94.5%
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)

≥75% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. These schools qualify for the highest tier of federal Title I funding and typically receive extra wraparound services. Academic outcomes vary widely — check the state assessment + grad-rate tiles.

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
123:1
Below the ASCA 250:1 recommendation — strong capacity for college planning, course selection, and student supports.
Counselor FTE
4.0
Full-time-equivalent school counselors on staff.
Teacher FTE
34
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

Grade 12 went from 132 in 2021 to 112 in 2024 — over 3 years.
-15.2%

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

If the recent trend holds…

At its recent rate of -2.5%/year, projecting from 2024's 492 students:

2025
480
2027
456
2029
433

≈ 59 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 $15,638 per student in district revenue, the 59 students projected to be lost by 2029 represent ≈ $922,642/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.

SchoolTypeMilesHS enrollmentTrend
CHAMPS - Charter HS of Arts-Multimedia & Performing
Van Nuys
Public · charter 3.2 424 -16.5%
Robert Fulton College Preparatory
Van Nuys
Public 2.2 603 +5.6%
PUC Lakeview Charter High
Sylmar
Public · charter 5.1 444 +2.5%
Cesar E. Chavez Lrng Acads-Acad of Scientific Explr (ASE)
San Fernando
Public 3.9 420 -6.5%
Alliance Marine - Innovation and Technology 6-12 Complex
Sun Valley
Public · charter 3.7 590 +14.3%
PUC Triumph Charter Academy and PUC Triumph Charter High
Sylmar
Public · charter 5.1 434 +1.2%
PUC Comm Charter Mid and PUC Comm Charter Early College High
Lake View Terrace
Public · charter 5.1 416 -8.4%
Vaughn Next Century Learning Center
San Fernando
Public · charter 3.4 700 -11.3%

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