Ace Empower Academy is a 5-8 school.

It serves grades 5-8 (California Department of Education school directory), so it has no graduating class and there is nothing to measure for UC admissions. Its enrollment, student body and state test results are below.

How Ace Empower Academy compares for families

What families should know about Ace Empower Academy.

  • vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Learning In An Urban Community With High Achievement (l.u.c.h.a.), Ace Inspire Academy, Voices College-Bound Language Academy At Mt. Pleasant and 2 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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Chronic absenteeism — 2024-25

Share of students missing 10% or more of expected attendance — the leading indicator that often precedes the demand decline shown above. Families disengaging tend to raise absenteeism first, then formally leave. Basis: total enrollment.

21% of students are chronically absent — near the state norm of about 21%.
Chronic absent
21.3%
42 of 197 students

Absenteeism is in the typical CA HS range. Worth monitoring alongside the demand and retention signals above.

Santa Clara County median
18.9% · school is worse than 58% of 102 HS
Statewide median
20.9%
Chronic absenteeism by year (raw %)

Source: California Department of Education, Chronic Absenteeism 2024-25. Benchmarks limited to non-virtual public & charter HS with ≥100 eligible students. CDE didn't publish a usable 2019-20 file (COVID).

Enrollment trend & projection

Total enrollment
337 (2018)213 (2026)
-36.8%

If this trend holds (-6.2%/yr, Total enrollment)

At per-pupil funding of $ / student:

Horizon Projected Total enrollment Change Funding impact / yr
1 yr (2027) ~200 -13 $0
3 yr (2029) ~176 -37 $0
5 yr (2031) ~154 -59 $0

Straight-line extrapolation of the recent annual rate — a what-if, not a forecast of intent. Default = California's LCFF base grant for grades 9–12 ($12,423/ADA). Edit the figure to match your school.

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Your similar-school group includes

Learning In An Urban Community With High Achievement (l.u.c.h.a.) · Ace Inspire Academy · Voices College-Bound Language Academy At Mt. Pleasant · Downtown College Preparatory Middle · Rocketship Si Se Puede Academy · College Connection Academy · +4 more

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Enrollment stability & demand — 2024-25

Two complementary signals: retention (do students stay once enrolled?) and demand (are families choosing the school?). Read against the Santa Clara County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.

90% of students who start the year here finish it here.
Stability rate
90.5%
180 of 199 students

19 of 199 students who enrolled at Ace Empower Academy this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (9.5% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.

Santa Clara County median
90.5% · school is in the 52nd percentile of 104 HS
Statewide median
88.7% · in the 61st percentile of 2,689 HS

Stability by student group

Hispanic / Latino (193) 90.2%
Socio. disadvantaged (190) 91.1%
English learners (145) 89.0%
Students w/ disabilities (40) 92.5%

Nearest peer high schools

Learning In An Urban Community With High Achievement (l.u.c.h.a.) 82.2% Ace Inspire Academy 83.9% Voices College-Bound Language Academy At Mt. Pleasant 84.4% Downtown College Preparatory Middle 89.6% Rocketship Si Se Puede Academy 81.6%

Source: California Department of Education, Stability Rate 2024-25. Benchmarks limited to non-virtual public & charter HS with ≥100 cumulative enrollees so by-design-high-churn continuation schools don't dominate the bottom of the distribution. Cumulative enrollment counts every student on the rolls during the year, so it can exceed peak-day enrollment.

District financial profile — Santa Clara County Office of Education (FY2020)

From 4 years of NCES F-33 filings (the federally-mandated district finance survey). Public schools don't have their own books — the district does. These figures show the financial scale, revenue dependence, instruction-vs-overhead mix, and long-term debt that shape what a school can sustain.

Total revenue
$352.8M
+8.7% since FY2017
Per-pupil revenue
$232,405
1,518 students enrolled
Revenue mix
State: 14.1%
Local: 71.4%
Federal: 14.5%
Instruction share
37.4%
of current spending · $54,338/pupil
Long-term debt
$3.0M
-46.9% since FY2017
Total revenue by year ($M)
Total expenditure by year ($M)

Source: NCES F-33 Annual Survey of School System Finances (Urban Institute Education Data API). Latest year currently published: FY2020. F-33 is a district-level federal filing — it reflects the Santa Clara County Office of Education as a whole, not this individual school's books. Revenue mix shows where the district's dollars come from (state aid dominates in CA via LCFF). Instruction share is current expenditure on instruction ÷ total current expenditure (national benchmark ~60%). Long-term debt is end-of-year outstanding (mostly facilities bonds).

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