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Death Valley High Academy

Shoshone · Inyo County · Death Valley Unified · Public

Public Inyo County Death Valley Unified → CDS 1463271…

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Academic signals

AP rigor: Bottom 14% of US high schools

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California College-Going Rate

College-going rate: —

The share of 2022-23 graduates who enrolled at a college anywhere in the U.S. within 12 months, per the National Student Clearinghouse match the California Department of Education publishes.

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CDE masks small groups. It suppresses every figure for a school whose graduating class is 10 students or fewer, so no rate is published for Death Valley High Academy’s 2022-23 class. The figure exists — it is withheld, not missing.

Source: California Department of Education, College-Going Rate (DataQuest) ↗, cohort 2022-23, posted 17-Sep-2025. Data file: cgr12mo23.txt ↗ (and the 16-month file ↗). CDE builds the rate by matching California high school completers to National Student Clearinghouse enrollment records; we publish CDE’s aggregates and hold no student-level data.

SAT / ACT participation

CRDC federal data · 2020-21

SAT/ACT test-takers

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.

College readiness

Getting ready for college

These come from the state and federal files, not from UC — so they are here whether or not Death Valley High Academy has a UC admissions record.

Student-Counselor Ratio ⓘ

Counseling here is unusually well-staffed — about 9 students per counselor, near what experts recommend.

9:1

1.0 FTE counselors · 9 students

In context: CA median 337:1 · 328 fewer students per counselor · ASCA target 250:1.

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 50%

Hispanic / Latino 50%

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 — 2021-22

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.

Kids show up: 0% are chronically absent versus about 30% statewide — engagement most schools would envy.

Chronic absent

0.0%

0 of 14 students

Absenteeism is down 57.1 pp since 2016-17. Engagement improving — a positive trajectory worth understanding and reinforcing.

Inyo County median

23.4% · school is better than 100% of 3 HS

Statewide median

30.4%

Source: California Department of Education, Chronic Absenteeism 2021-22. 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)

12 (2018) → 9 (2026)

-25.0%

Grade 12 (graduating class)

2 (2018) → 1 (2026)

-50.0%

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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 Inyo County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.

60% of students who start the year here finish it here.

Critical

Material decline in demand.

Enrollment -50.0% vs. county -39.0% — losing far faster than the county. Each enrolled family matters more, but the engine of new enrollment is breaking down.

-50.0% senior class, grade 12 (2018–2026)

-39.0% Inyo County baseline

-11.0pp gap vs. county

60.0% retention (county median 58.4%)

Senior class (grade 12) — indexed to 100 at 2018

Stability rate

60.0%

3 of 5 students

2 of 5 students who enrolled at Death Valley High Academy this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (40.0% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.

Inyo County median

58.4% · school is in the 50th percentile of 2 HS

Statewide median

87.3% · in the 21st percentile of 1,734 HS

Nearest peer high schools

Mountain View High 29.2% Owens Valley High 87.5% McGowan (robert) High (continuation) 21.6% Baker High School 93.8% Calico Continuation High 35.7%

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 — Death Valley 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

$1.7M

+16.8% since FY2017

Per-pupil revenue

$85,300

20 students enrolled

Revenue mix

State: 24.0%
Local: 65.3%
Federal: 10.7%

Instruction share

35.7%

of current spending · $24,700/pupil

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 Death Valley 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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At a glance

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Death Valley High Academy is a public high school in Shoshone, Inyo County, California.

It has about 9 students per school counselor.

Enrollment was 9 students in 2026, down 25% since 2018.

Sources: University of California Office of the President (admissions), California Department of Education (enrollment, A-G, college-going), and the school's own published documents where named.

Questions families ask

How many students attend Death Valley High Academy? Enrollment was 9 students in 2026, down 25% since 2018.

Analysis: Test Prep Gurus (High School Reach, highschoolreach.com). These figures may be quoted with attribution to Test Prep Gurus.