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Delta High

· Sacramento County · River Delta Joint Unified · Public

Public Sacramento County 🏛 River Delta Joint Unified → CDS 3467413…
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📖12 AP courses 🎓95% 4-yr grad rate

📋 At a glance

Programs & features
  • 📚 12 AP courses offered — Elite
  • ✅ Gifted & talented program
Academic signals
  • 🎓 AP rigor: 71th percentile nationally
  • 📝 SAT/ACT participation: Bottom 21% by test-taker volume
  • 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 95% (75th percentile nationally)

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

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How Delta High compares for families

Stronger-than-average college-prep profile.

  • StatewideAP rigor at the 71th percentile nationally with 12 AP courses.
  • vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Arthur A. Benjamin Health Professions High, New Technology High, Rio Cazadero High (continuation) and 2 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.

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🎓 Academic rigor

AP + advanced-course offerings

Elite — exceptional AP + advanced course breadth

71th percentile nationally

50th 90th ↑ this school
Less rigorMore rigorMost rigor
AP courses offered
12
Math ✓
Students taking AP courses
66
≈34 per 100 students · uptake, not just offerings
Advanced math classes
4
0 calculus · 4 advanced
Lab science classes
5
2 physics · 3 chemistry
Other rigor signals
✅ Gifted/talented program

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

Bottom 21% by test-taker volume

50th 90th
SAT/ACT test-takers
17
11th-12th graders who took 1+ college admissions test
Test-taking intensity
8.7
takers per 100 students in grades 9-12
Compared against
18,426
US high schools reporting SAT/ACT participation

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?

75th percentile nationally

50th 90th
4-year graduation rate
95%
Range: 90–100%
4-year cohort size
55
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

High-poverty school

Title I Schoolwide eligible

75.0%
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)

≥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.

ELA — met or exceeded
n = 62
35.5%
incl. 9.7% exceeded
-10.6 pts vs. Sacramento County median (46.1%) · CA median 54.3% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 79.3%
Math — met or exceeded
n = 61
9.8%
incl. 0.0% exceeded
-7.9 pts vs. Sacramento County median (17.7%) · 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

Hispanic / Latino 75% +9.6
White 19% -9.3
Two or more 3%
Black / African Am. 2%
Asian 1%
Filipino 1%
American Indian 1%

Program subgroups

Students w/ disabilities 76% +4.7

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
18.4%
37 of 201 students

Absenteeism is up 5.6 pp since 2016-17. A rising absenteeism trend often precedes formal departure — worth investigating which subgroups are driving it.

Sacramento County median
25.8% · school is better than 75% of 75 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)
164 (2018)177 (2026)
+7.9%
Grade 12 (graduating class)
55 (2018)64 (2026)
+16.4%

If this trend holds (-0.0%/yr, Total enrollment)

At per-pupil funding of $ / student:

Horizon Projected Total enrollment Change Funding impact / yr
1 yr (2027) ~177 +0 $0
3 yr (2029) ~177 +0 $0
5 yr (2031) ~177 +0 $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.

Delta High — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot

Public · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools

  • Senior-class enrollment is up 16% (55→64 from 2018 to 2026), outpacing the peer-group median of -25%.
  • Enrollment has been growing (+1.0%/yr); projects to ~182 by 2029.

Enrollment projection

177 students (2026)
~182 projected (2029)
at +1.0%/yr

Your school vs. its 10 most similar nearby schools

School Type Size UC Reach Enroll. trend
Delta High Public 177 +16%
Peer-group median 8.6% -25%
Arthur A. Benjamin Health Professions High Public 176 +11%
New Technology High Public 141 -14%
Rio Cazadero High (continuation) Public 118 -31%
Elk Grove Charter Public 280 -20%
Calvine High School Public 129 -12%
Washington Middle College Hs Public 206 8.6% +371%
American Legion High (continuation) Public 130 -60%
Foundations Academy Public 158 -30%
George Washington Carver School Of Arts And Science Public 147 -39%
Sava - Sacramento Academic And Vocational Academy - Egusd Public 368 -38%

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

Healthy
Best in class — winning on demand and retention.

Delta High outperformed Sacramento County on enrollment (school +16.4% vs. county +3.0%) AND maintains 88.8% stability. Replicable model — worth documenting what's working.

+16.4%  school enrollment (2018–2026)
+3.0%  Sacramento County baseline
+13.4pp  gap vs. county
88.8%  retention (county median 80.8%)
Enrollment — indexed to 100 at 2018
Stability rate by year (raw %)
Stability rate
88.8%
183 of 206 students

23 of 206 students who enrolled at Delta High this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (11.2% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.

Sacramento County median
80.8% · school is in the 75th percentile of 77 HS
Statewide median
87.2% · in the 58th percentile of 1,688 HS

Stability by student group

Socio. disadvantaged (164) 90.2%
Hispanic / Latino (147) 91.2%
White (43) 86.0%
English learners (31) 90.3%
Students w/ disabilities (24) 87.5%

Nearest peer high schools

Arthur A. Benjamin Health Professions High 82.8% New Technology High 80.0% Rio Cazadero High (continuation) 25.7% Elk Grove Charter 54.4% Calvine High School 33.6%

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 — River Delta 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
$30.0M
+2.0% since FY2017
Per-pupil revenue
$15,992
1,874 students enrolled
Revenue mix
State: 40.2%
Local: 50.1%
Federal: 9.7%
Instruction share
54.6%
of current spending · $7,611/pupil
Long-term debt
$29.8M
+118.3% since FY2017
Total revenue by year ($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 River Delta 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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