Cobalt Institute Of Math And Science Academy
· San Bernardino County · Victor Valley Union High · Public
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- 📚 5 AP courses offered — Strong
- 🎓 AP rigor: 52th percentile nationally
- 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 67% (Bottom 13% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
🎓 Where grads go
UC admits by campus · Class of 2025
Source: University of California Office of the President, Admissions by Source School. Full campus-by-campus breakdown below.
How Cobalt Institute Of Math And Science Academy compares for families
Top-tier college outcomes for California families.
- ▸ Statewide54.9% UC Reach — 36.8 points above the California median of 18.1%. 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 (54.9% UC Reach vs 9.3% median) across the 5 most similar nearby schools.
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🎓 Academic rigor
AP + advanced-course offerings
Strong — solid AP program + advanced courses
52th 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.
Cobalt Institute Of Math And Science Academy — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot
Public · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools
- ▸On UC Reach, Cobalt Institute Of Math And Science Academy sits near the top of its similar-school group (ranked #1 of 6): 55% vs. a peer median of 9%.
- ▸Senior-class enrollment is up 72% (78→134 from 2018 to 2026), outpacing the peer-group median of +12%.
- ▸Enrollment has been growing (+0.2%/yr); projects to ~1044 by 2029.
Enrollment projection
Your school vs. its 10 most similar nearby schools
| School | Type | Size | UC Reach | Enroll. trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cobalt Institute Of Math And Science Academy | Public | 1036 | 54.9% | +72% |
| Peer-group median | 9.3% | +12% | ||
| University Preparatory | Public | 1136 | 38.2% | +1% |
| Mojave River Academy Oro Grande | Public | 917 | — | +49% |
| Options For Youth-Victor Valley Charter | Public | 847 | — | -29% |
| Lakeview Leadership Academy | Public | 908 | — | +18% |
| Academy For Academic Excellence | Public | 1498 | 16.2% | +13% |
| Silverado High School | Public | 2209 | 7.3% | -7% |
| Taylion High Desert Academy/Adelanto | Public | 1857 | — | -79% |
| Adelanto High School | Public | 2291 | 9.3% | +25% |
| Victor Valley High School | Public | 2258 | 8.6% | +10% |
| Mojave River Academy Route 66 | Public | 425 | — | +18% |
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 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 of 54.9% — 36.8 percentage points above the California median of 18.1%, higher than 92% of California high schools. The school produces 6.3 UCLA + UC Berkeley admits per 100 seniors.
+45.6 pp above peer median (9.3%) · Ranked #1 of 6 similar schools
18.1%
9.3%
51.2%
54.9%
Higher than 92% of California high schools (978 ranked, ≥50 seniors)
Cobalt Institute Of Math And Science Academy's UC Reach of 54.9% clears the statewide top-10% cutoff (51.2%) — 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 12.6%, 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 9.3%.
For context, the elite tier (top 1%) clears 97.3% — 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 (978 ranked).
Campus Breakdown — 2025
| Campus | Applicants | Admits | Enrollees | Admit Rate | UC Reach | Yield | Avg GPA (App) | Avg GPA (Adm) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UC Berkeley → Elite | 32 | 4 | —† | 12.5% | 2.3% | — | — | —† |
| UCLA → Elite | 66 | 7 | 5 | 10.6% | 4.0% | 71.4% | — | —† |
| UC San Diego → Selective | 71 | 35 | 6 | 49.3% | 20.0% | 17.1% | — | —† |
| UC Santa Barbara → Selective | 28 | 8 | —† | 28.6% | 4.6% | — | — | —† |
| UC Irvine → Selective | 79 | 27 | 6 | 34.2% | 15.4% | 22.2% | — | —† |
| UC Davis → | 28 | 15 | —† | 53.6% | 8.6% | — | — | —† |
What This Means
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