Cobalt Institute Of Math And Science Academy
· San Bernardino County · Victor Valley Union High · Public
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- The UC pipeline here is real. 96 admissions to the top six UC campuses for a class of 175 seniors puts this school in roughly the top 8% of California high schools.
- 9 in 10 graduates leave eligible for UC and CSU. 94% finish the A-G courses California's universities require before a student can even apply — most California schools manage about 6 in 10.
- Families don't leave. 95% of students who start the year here finish it here — top-tier retention statewide. Kids stay; that tells you something no test score does.
- About 9 in 10 students read and write at grade level. On the state's own 11th-grade test, 88% met or exceeded the college-readiness bar — the top 10% of California high schools (statewide: 54%).
- Worth asking about on a tour: counselor load. One counselor serves about 345 students here — above the 250-to-1 level counseling experts recommend. Ask how junior-year college advising actually gets covered.
Composed from this page's data — every claim is backed by a number in the sections below.
📋 At a glance
- 📚 5 AP courses offered — Strong
- 🎓 AP rigor: 52nd percentile nationally
- 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 67% (Bottom 13% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts graduation data, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
🎓 Where grads go — and what it costs & pays
UC admits by campus · Class of 2025
Getting in is step one. The cost above is the average family's net price — yours depends on your income — and your child's odds depend on their GPA + scores. See your family's real numbers at these campuses:
🎯 Get my child's odds + our real net price →Sources: UC Office of the President (admits); IPEDS net price + College Scorecard 10-yr earnings (cost & payoff). Full campus-by-campus breakdown below.
How Cobalt Institute Of Math And Science Academy compares for families
Top-tier college outcomes for California families.
- ▸ StatewideUC Reach Score of 55 — 37 points above the California median of 18. Ahead of 92% of California high schools.
- ▸ Locally🎓 Top 2 in San Bernardino County on UC Reach — plus 4 more top-ranks.
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsBeats the peer median (UC Reach Score 55 vs a 9 median) across the 5 most similar nearby schools.
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🎓 Academic rigor
AP + advanced-course offerings
Strong — solid AP program + advanced courses
52nd percentile nationally
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 · 2020-21Source: 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 13% 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
High-poverty school
Title I Schoolwide eligible
≥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.
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.
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
Program subgroups
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.
Absenteeism is up 3.1 pp since 2016-17. A rising absenteeism trend often precedes formal departure — worth investigating which subgroups are driving it.
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
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) | ~1,035 | -1 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2029) | ~1,034 | -2 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2031) | ~1,032 | -4 | $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.
How does Cobalt Institute Of Math And Science Academy really compare on getting kids to college?
We've ranked it #1 of 6 most similar nearby schools on UC Reach. Unlock the full snapshot to see the head-to-head — who's ahead, by how much, and where it's heading.
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University Preparatory · Mojave River Academy Oro Grande · Options For Youth-Victor Valley Charter · Lakeview Leadership Academy · Academy For Academic Excellence · Silverado High School · +4 more
Enrollment stability & demand — 2024-25
Two complementary signals: retention (do students stay once enrolled?) and demand (are families choosing the school?). Read against the San Bernardino County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.
Cobalt Institute Of Math And Science Academy outperformed San Bernardino County on enrollment (school +71.8% vs. county +0.0%) AND maintains 95.2% stability. Replicable model — worth documenting what's working.
33 of 692 students who enrolled at Cobalt Institute Of Math And Science Academy this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (4.8% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.
Stability by student group
Nearest peer high schools
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 — Victor Valley Union High (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.
Local: 17.9%
Federal: 15.7%
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 Victor Valley Union High 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).
Cobalt Institute Of Math And Science Academy sent 304 applications to the six most selective University of California campuses and 31.6% were admitted, producing a UC Reach Score of 55 — 37 points above the California median of 18, higher than 92% of California high schools. The school produces 6.3 UCLA + UC Berkeley admits per 100 seniors.
+46 pts above peer median (9) · Ranked #1 of 6 similar schools
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Higher than 92% of California high schools (980 ranked, ≥50 seniors)
Cobalt Institute Of Math And Science Academy's UC Reach Score of 55 clears the statewide top-10% cutoff (51) — meaning roughly 54 top-6 UC admits per 100 seniors, well above what most California schools achieve.
In San Bernardino County, where the local median is just 13, this score is unusually strong for its immediate market.
Against similar schools, Cobalt Institute Of Math And Science Academy stands out clearly — the peer-group median is 9.
For context, the elite tier (top 1%) clears 97 — a gap of 42 pp from where this school sits.
Overall, Cobalt Institute Of Math And Science Academy's UC Reach is higher than 92% of California high schools (980 ranked).
Campus Breakdown — 2025
| Campus | Applicants | Admits | Enrollees | Admit Rate | UC Reach Score | Yield | Avg GPA (App) | Avg GPA (Adm) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UC Berkeley → Elite | 32 | 4 | —† | 12.5% | 2 | — | — | —† |
| UCLA → Elite | 66 | 7 | 5 | 10.6% | 4 | 71.4% | — | —† |
| UC San Diego → Selective | 71 | 35 | 6 | 49.3% | 20 | 17.1% | — | —† |
| UC Santa Barbara → Selective | 28 | 8 | —† | 28.6% | 5 | — | — | —† |
| UC Irvine → Selective | 79 | 27 | 6 | 34.2% | 15 | 22.2% | — | —† |
| UC Davis → | 28 | 15 | —† | 53.6% | 9 | — | — | —† |
What This Means
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