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Boron Junior-Senior High

· Kern County · Muroc Joint Unified · Public

Public Kern County 🏛 Muroc Joint Unified → CDS 1563685…
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📘Top 25% Math · SBAC (CA)

📋 At a glance

Programs & features
  • 📚 1 AP courses offered — Moderate
  • 🔢 1 calculus classes · 3 chemistry
Academic signals
  • 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 37% of US high schools
  • 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 10% (Bottom 1% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)

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

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How Boron Junior-Senior High compares for families

Solid mid-tier academic profile.

  • vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Academy Of Careers And Exploration, Desert Junior-Senior High, Mojave River Academy - Marble City and 2 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.

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🎓 Academic rigor

AP + advanced-course offerings

Moderate — some AP / advanced course access

Bottom 37% of US high schools

50th 90th ↑ this school
Less rigorMore rigorMost rigor
AP courses offered
1
Math ✓
Students taking AP courses
8
≈5 per 100 students · uptake, not just offerings
Advanced math classes
1
1 calculus · 0 advanced
Lab science classes
3
0 physics · 3 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 1% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate

50th 90th
4-year graduation rate
10%
Single-point estimate
4-year cohort size
29
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

Title I Schoolwide eligible

≥40% FRPL — qualifies for Title I Schoolwide program

60.1%
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)

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.

SBAC academic outcomes — grade 11, 2025

Share of grade-11 students meeting or exceeding the California standard on Smarter Balanced ELA and Math. This is the academic-readiness signal that pairs with UC Reach (post-grad outcomes), stability (retention), and absenteeism (engagement). Note: statewide median Math is only ~20% — a school at 20% isn't an outlier; one at 45%+ genuinely is.

ELA — met or exceeded
n = 37
37.8%
incl. 13.5% exceeded
-13.9 pts vs. Kern County median (51.7%) · CA median 54.3% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 79.3%
Math — met or exceeded
n = 36
38.9%
incl. 8.3% exceeded
+26.0 pts above Kern County median (12.9%) · CA median 21.1% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 53.6%

Source: California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP) Smarter Balanced research files. Benchmarks limited to non-virtual public & charter HS with ≥30 tested students.

Student composition — 2025-26

HS grades 9–12 racial/ethnic composition and program subgroups, from CDE Census Day Enrollment. Two-year shift shown when ≥1 pt — surfaces how the community served has changed since 2023-24.

Race / ethnicity

White 41%
Hispanic / Latino 39% +3.5
Black / African Am. 13%
Two or more 3% -4.1
Pacific Islander 1%
Not reported 1%
Asian 1%
American Indian 1% -1.2

Program subgroups

Students w/ disabilities 54%

Source: California Department of Education, Census Day Enrollment 2025-26 (HS grades 9–12). Δ shown when shift is ≥1 pt since 2023-24. Categories below 0.5% omitted.

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: grades 9–12.

Chronic absent
57.9%
103 of 178 students

Absenteeism is up 26.2 pp since 2016-17. A rising absenteeism trend often precedes formal departure — worth investigating which subgroups are driving it.

Kern County median
19.6% · school is worse than 85% of 47 HS
Statewide median
22.9%
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 (9–12)
263 (2018)251 (2026)
-4.6%
Grade 12 (graduating class)
46 (2018)40 (2026)
-13.0%

If this trend holds (+0.1%/yr, Total enrollment)

At per-pupil funding of $ / student:

Horizon Projected Total enrollment Change Funding impact / yr
1 yr (2027) ~251 +0 $0
3 yr (2029) ~251 +0 $0
5 yr (2031) ~252 +1 $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.

Boron Junior-Senior High — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot

Public · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools

  • Senior-class enrollment is down 13% (46→40 from 2018 to 2026), trailing the peer-group median of +1%.
  • At its recent rate (-0.6%/yr), enrollment projects to ~247 by 2029 — about 4 fewer students than today.

Enrollment projection

251 students (2026)
~247 projected (2029)
at -0.6%/yr

That's about 4 fewer students. At per-student funding of $ per student, that's roughly $0 in annual state funding at risk.

Default = California's LCFF base grant for grades 9–12 ($12,423 per ADA) — adjust to your district's actual per-pupil figure. Projection extrapolates the recent annual rate — not a forecast of intent.

Your school vs. its 10 most similar nearby schools

School Type Size UC Reach Enroll. trend
Boron Junior-Senior High Public 251 -13%
Peer-group median 10.2% +1%
Academy Of Careers And Exploration Public 310 +9%
Desert Junior-Senior High Public 507 -12%
Mojave River Academy - Marble City Public 254 +188%
Mojave Jr./Sr. High Public 368 +27%
High Desert Premier Academy Public 273 +240%
Summit Leadership Academy-High Desert Public 275 -29%
California City High School Public 613 10.2% +6%
Mojave High School Public 210 -27%
Independence Charter Academy Public 105 -48%
Canyon Ridge High Public 174 -3%

UC Reach = top-6 UC admits ÷ senior class (can exceed 100% when students are admitted to multiple campuses). Enrollment trend = first-to-latest grade-12 change on file. Similar schools matched on proximity, size, type. Methodology →

Enrollment stability & demand — 2024-25

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

Critical
Compounding decline on both vectors.

Enrollment -13.0% vs. county +12.7% AND stability (77.9%) below the county median. Recruitment and retention both under pressure — likely a foundational rather than tactical problem. Chronic absenteeism is also at 55.5% (up +23.8 pts from 2016-17) — engagement and demand are both signaling decline.

-13.0%  school enrollment (2018–2026)
+12.7%  Kern County baseline
-25.7pp  gap vs. county
77.9%  retention (county median 84.4%)
Enrollment — indexed to 100 at 2018
Stability rate by year (raw %)
Stability rate
77.9%
141 of 181 students

40 of 181 students who enrolled at Boron Junior-Senior High this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (22.1% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.

Kern County median
84.4% · school is in the 30th percentile of 47 HS
Statewide median
87.2% · in the 27th percentile of 1,688 HS

Stability by student group

Socio. disadvantaged (189) 73.0%
Hispanic / Latino (125) 76.8%
White (105) 81.0%
Students w/ disabilities (55) 87.3%
Black / African Am. (30) 86.7%

Nearest peer high schools

Academy Of Careers And Exploration 84.0% Desert Junior-Senior High 88.3% Mojave River Academy - Marble City 61.0% Mojave Jr./Sr. High 73.9% High Desert Premier Academy 28.4%

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 — Muroc Joint Unified (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
$71.9M
+118.6% since FY2017
Per-pupil revenue
$42,619
1,687 students enrolled
Revenue mix
State: 22.3%
Local: 6.3%
Federal: 71.4%
Instruction share
55.6%
of current spending · $7,638/pupil
Long-term debt
$21.3M
+19.9% since FY2017
Total revenue by year ($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 Muroc Joint Unified 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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