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Le Grand High

· Merced County · Le Grand Union High · Public

Public Merced County 🏛 Le Grand Union High → CDS 2465730…
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📘Top 5 ELA proficiency in Merced 🧮Top 4 Math proficiency in Merced 🎯Top 2 Attendance (lowest chronic absenteeism) in Merced 🎯Top 10% Attendance (lowest chronic absenteeism) in CA

📋 At a glance

Programs & features
  • 📚 5 AP courses offered — Strong
  • ✅ Dual-enrollment program (college credit while in HS)
  • 🔢 1 calculus classes · 4 physics · 5 chemistry
Academic signals
  • 🎓 AP rigor: 63th 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 Le Grand High compares for families

Solid mid-tier academic profile.

  • StatewideAP rigor at the 63th percentile nationally with 5 AP courses.
  • Locally📘 Top 5 in Merced County on ELA proficiency — plus 3 more top-ranks.
  • vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Yosemite High (continuation), Chowchilla Union High School, Mariposa County High School 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

63th percentile nationally

50th 90th ↑ this school
Less rigorMore rigorMost rigor
AP courses offered
5
Math ✓
Students taking AP courses
74
≈15 per 100 students · uptake, not just offerings
Advanced math classes
4
1 calculus · 3 advanced
Lab science classes
9
4 physics · 5 chemistry
Other rigor signals
✅ Dual-enrollment 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
135
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

87.2%
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 = 100
51.0%
incl. 12.0% exceeded
+8.4 pts above Merced County median (42.6%) · CA median 54.3% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 79.3%
Math — met or exceeded
n = 100
20.0%
incl. 1.0% exceeded
+6.4 pts above Merced County median (13.6%) · 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 94% +1.6
White 5% -1.1

Program subgroups

Students w/ disabilities 90% +1.3
English learners 19% -5.0
Socioeconomically disadv. 2%

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
7.6%
38 of 498 students

Absenteeism is down 7.3 pp since 2017-18. Engagement improving — a positive trajectory worth understanding and reinforcing.

Merced County median
26.3% · school is better than 95% of 19 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)
469 (2018)485 (2026)
+3.4%
Grade 12 (graduating class)
103 (2018)103 (2026)
+0.0%

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) ~485 +0 $0
3 yr (2029) ~486 +1 $0
5 yr (2031) ~486 +1 $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.

Le Grand High — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot

Public · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools

  • Senior-class enrollment is up 0% (103→103 from 2018 to 2026), outpacing the peer-group median of -4%.
  • Enrollment has been growing (+0.4%/yr); projects to ~491 by 2029.

Enrollment projection

485 students (2026)
~491 projected (2029)
at +0.4%/yr

Your school vs. its 10 most similar nearby schools

School Type Size UC Reach Enroll. trend
Le Grand High Public 485 +0%
Peer-group median 11.9% -4%
Yosemite High (continuation) Public 295 -8%
Chowchilla Union High School Public 1038 11.9% +1%
Mariposa County High School Public 459 3.6% +45%
Merced Scholars Charter Sch Public 299 -14%
Dos Palos High School Public 632 8.6% -14%
Firebaugh High School Public 674 11.7% +4%
Yosemite High School Public 509 18.1% -37%
Liberty High Public 775 12.1% +59%
Minarets High School Public 296 +56%
Delhi High School Public 716 25.3% -15%

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

Action needed
Strong inside, weak at the gate.

Families who enroll at Le Grand High stay (90.0% stability — elite). But enrollment is dropping faster than Merced County (school +0.0% vs. county +7.6%). The audit question isn't why students leave — it's why fewer families are choosing to enroll in the first place.

+0.0%  school enrollment (2018–2026)
+7.6%  Merced County baseline
-7.6pp  gap vs. county
90.0%  retention (county median 87.2%)
Enrollment — indexed to 100 at 2018
Stability rate by year (raw %)
Stability rate
90.0%
451 of 501 students

50 of 501 students who enrolled at Le Grand High this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (10.0% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.

Merced County median
87.2% · school is in the 84th percentile of 19 HS
Statewide median
87.2% · in the 65th percentile of 1,688 HS

Stability by student group

Socio. disadvantaged (496) 90.7%
Hispanic / Latino (461) 90.9%
English learners (122) 80.3%
Students w/ disabilities (38) 92.1%
White (32) 78.1%

Nearest peer high schools

Yosemite High (continuation) 55.2% Chowchilla Union High School 89.3% Mariposa County High School 87.0% Merced Scholars Charter Sch 67.6% Dos Palos High School 86.7%

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 — Le Grand 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.

Total revenue
$10.5M
+21.0% since FY2017
Per-pupil revenue
$20,391
514 students enrolled
Revenue mix
State: 56.5%
Local: 25.6%
Federal: 17.9%
Instruction share
48.6%
of current spending · $9,607/pupil
Long-term debt
$5.3M
+121.9% since FY2017
Total revenue by year ($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 Le Grand 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).

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