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George Washington Carver School Of Arts And Science

· Sacramento County · Sacramento City Unified · Public

Public Sacramento County 🏛 Sacramento City Unified → CDS 3467439…
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📋 At a glance

Programs & features
  • 📚 3 AP courses offered — Strong
  • ✅ Dual-enrollment program (college credit while in HS)
  • ✅ Gifted & talented program
  • 🔢 2 calculus classes · 10 physics
Academic signals
  • 🎓 AP rigor: 58th percentile nationally
  • 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 92% (60th percentile nationally)

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

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How George Washington Carver School Of Arts And Science compares for families

Solid mid-tier academic profile.

  • StatewideAP rigor at the 58th percentile nationally with 3 AP courses.
  • vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Foundations Academy, Walnutwood High (independent Study), American Legion High (continuation) and 2 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.

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🎓 Academic rigor

AP + advanced-course offerings

Strong — solid AP program + advanced courses

58th percentile nationally

50th 90th ↑ this school
Less rigorMore rigorMost rigor
AP courses offered
3
Math ✓
Students taking AP courses
23
≈13 per 100 students · uptake, not just offerings
Advanced math classes
4
2 calculus · 2 advanced
Lab science classes
10
10 physics · 0 chemistry
Other rigor signals
✅ Dual-enrollment program
✅ 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
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?

60th percentile nationally

50th 90th
4-year graduation rate
92%
Range: 90–94%
4-year cohort size
61
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

50.6%
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 = 38
52.6%
incl. 13.2% exceeded
+6.5 pts above Sacramento County median (46.1%) · CA median 54.3% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 79.3%
Math — met or exceeded
n = 38
10.5%
incl. 2.6% exceeded
-7.2 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

White 39%
Hispanic / Latino 34% -3.1
Two or more 14% +5.7
Black / African Am. 10% +1.8
American Indian 2%
Asian 1% -1.4

Program subgroups

Students w/ disabilities 52% -1.1
Socioeconomically disadv. 37% +3.6

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
31.4%
55 of 175 students

Absenteeism is up 20.2 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 worse than 60% 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)
272 (2018)147 (2026)
-46.0%
Grade 12 (graduating class)
61 (2018)37 (2026)
-39.3%

If this trend holds (-7.5%/yr, Total enrollment)

At per-pupil funding of $ / student:

Horizon Projected Total enrollment Change Funding impact / yr
1 yr (2027) ~136 -11 $0
3 yr (2029) ~116 -31 $0
5 yr (2031) ~100 -47 $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.

George Washington Carver School Of Arts And Science — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot

Public · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools

  • Senior-class enrollment is down 39% (61→37 from 2018 to 2026), trailing the peer-group median of -21%.
  • At its recent rate (-7.4%/yr), enrollment projects to ~117 by 2029 — about 30 fewer students than today.

Enrollment projection

147 students (2026)
~117 projected (2029)
at -7.4%/yr

That's about 30 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 Score Enroll. trend
George Washington Carver School Of Arts And Science Public 147 -39%
Peer-group median -21%
Foundations Academy Public 158 -30%
Walnutwood High (independent Study) Public 146 +4%
American Legion High (continuation) Public 130 -60%
Calvine High School Public 129 -12%
New Technology High Public 141 -14%
Elinor Lincoln Hickey Jr./Sr. High Public 112 +134%
Kinney High (continuation) Public 98 -36%
Rio Cazadero High (continuation) Public 118 -31%
Arthur A. Benjamin Health Professions High Public 176 +11%
Vista Nueva Career And Technology High Public 102 -29%

UC Reach Score = 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.

Critical
Sharp demand downturn hidden by elite retention.

George Washington Carver School Of Arts And Science's enrollment is shrinking 13.1× the county rate (school -39.3% vs. county +3.0%). Stability of 88.3% means every family you keep is one fewer; the leverage is at recruitment, not retention. This is the case the high stability number alone would hide. Chronic absenteeism is also at 31.4% (up +20.2 pts from 2016-17) — engagement and demand are both signaling decline.

-39.3%  school enrollment (2018–2026)
+3.0%  Sacramento County baseline
-42.3pp  gap vs. county
88.3%  retention (county median 80.8%)
Enrollment — indexed to 100 at 2018
Stability rate by year (raw %)
Stability rate
88.3%
159 of 180 students

21 of 180 students who enrolled at George Washington Carver School Of Arts And Science this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (11.7% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.

Sacramento County median
80.8% · school is in the 71st percentile of 77 HS
Statewide median
87.2% · in the 56th percentile of 1,688 HS

Stability by student group

Socio. disadvantaged (97) 85.6%
White (75) 89.3%
Hispanic / Latino (65) 89.2%
Students w/ disabilities (57) 89.5%

Nearest peer high schools

Foundations Academy 83.5% Walnutwood High (independent Study) 42.1% American Legion High (continuation) 26.8% Calvine High School 33.6% New Technology High 80.0%

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 — Sacramento City 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
$772.7M
+16.1% since FY2017
Per-pupil revenue
$18,978
40,711 students enrolled
Revenue mix
State: 56.4%
Local: 24.8%
Federal: 18.8%
Instruction share
60.3%
of current spending · $9,721/pupil
Long-term debt
$495.5M
-10.4% since FY2017
Total revenue by year ($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 Sacramento City 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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