Luis Valdez Leadership Academy
San Jose · Santa Clara County · East Side Union High · Public
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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 24.2 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 (-6.4%/yr, Total enrollment)
At per-pupil funding of $ / student:
| Horizon | Projected Total enrollment | Change | Funding impact / yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 yr (2027) | ~244 | -17 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2029) | ~214 | -47 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2031) | ~188 | -73 | $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.
Luis Valdez Leadership Academy — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot
Public · San Jose · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools
- ▸On UC Reach, Luis Valdez Leadership Academy sits in the middle of its similar-school group (ranked #3 of 5): 14% vs. a peer median of 12%.
- ▸Luis Valdez Leadership Academy's UC Reach has stepped down from a peak of 23% in 2021 to 14% in 2024 — a 9-point decline worth tracking.
- ▸Senior-class enrollment is up 6% (95→101 from 2018 to 2026), outpacing the peer-group median of -9%.
- ▸At its recent rate (-4.6%/yr), enrollment projects to ~227 by 2029 — about 34 fewer students than today.
Enrollment projection
That's about 34 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 | Enroll. trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Luis Valdez Leadership Academy | Public | 261 | 14.0% | +6% |
| Peer-group median | 12.1% | -9% | ||
| Ace Charter High School | Public | 283 | 3.3% | +19% |
| Kipp Navigate College Prep | Public | 300 | 14.5% | -5% |
| Alpha Cindy Avitia High School | Public | 341 | 9.6% | -4% |
| Foothill High | Public | 217 | — | -36% |
| B. Roberto Cruz Leadership Academy | Public | 215 | — | -10% |
| Downtown College Prep - Alum Rock | Public | 202 | — | -21% |
| Opportunity Youth Academy | Public | 333 | — | -44% |
| San Jose Conservation Corps Charter | Public | 185 | — | -29% |
| Latino College Prep Academy | Public | 427 | 24.3% | -8% |
| Calero High School | Public | 177 | — | -8% |
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 Santa Clara County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.
Enrollment growth is beating Santa Clara County (+6.3% vs. -6.2%), but 37 of 247 students didn't maintain continuous enrollment. Why are families leaving once enrolled? Chronic absenteeism is also at 40.7% (up +24.2 pts from 2016-17) — engagement and demand are both signaling decline.
37 of 247 students who enrolled at Luis Valdez Leadership Academy this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (15.0% 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 — East Side 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: 51.7%
Federal: 7.1%
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 East Side 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).
UC funnel — which kids are getting in at what GPA
Combining the school's applicant pool GPA, admit pool GPA, actual admit rate, and statewide CA admit rates by individual GPA band, we can read which GPA tiers tend to get in — and which don't.
| Campus | 4.00+ GPA | 3.70–3.99 GPA | 3.30–3.69 GPA | < 3.30 GPA |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UC Berkeley | Real shot | Long odds | Filtered out | Filtered out |
| UC Santa Barbara | Strong shot | Real shot | Long odds | Filtered out |
| UC Irvine | Strong shot | Real shot | Long odds | Filtered out |
| UC Davis | Strong shot | Strong shot | Real shot | Filtered out |
The numbers behind it
| Campus | Applicant GPA | Admit GPA | Lift ⓘ | Admit rate | vs peer schools @ same GPA ⓘ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UC Berkeley (2021) | 3.97 | 4.20 | +0.23 | 31.2% | Peers +0.25 · matches |
| UC Santa Barbara (2023) | 3.96 | 4.29 | +0.34 | 53.8% | Peers +0.27 · steeper |
| UC Irvine (2019) | 3.84 | 4.25 | +0.42 | 35.7% | Peers +0.31 · steeper |
| UC Davis (2023) | 4.00 | 4.11 | +0.11 | 66.7% | Peers +0.21 · wider |
📊 Statewide CA admit rates by individual GPA band, 2025 (for reference)
| GPA band | UCB | UCLA | UCSD | UCSB | UCI | UCD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4.00+ | 17.0% | 15.1% | 45.2% | 62.3% | 46.3% | 65.9% |
| 3.70–3.99 | 3.1% | 1.6% | 9.3% | 17.6% | 17.0% | 31.1% |
| 3.30–3.69 | 0.8% | 0.5% | 1.5% | 2.8% | 2.4% | 10.3% |
| 3.00–3.29 | 0.4% | 0.3% | 0.2% | 0.4% | 0.3% | 1.9% |
| < 3.00 | 0.7% | 0.4% | 0.3% | 0.2% | 0.1% | 0.7% |
UC Outcomes Trend — 2018–2025
Class size from CDE grade 12 enrollment. Campus-level data — applicant/admit totals may count a student at multiple campuses more than once.
Campus Breakdown — 2025
| Campus | Applicants | Admits | Enrollees | Admit Rate | UC Reach | Yield | Avg GPA (App) | Avg GPA (Adm) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UC Berkeley → Elite | 9 | —† | —† | —† | —† | — | 3.80 | —† |
| UCLA → Elite | 7 | —† | —† | —† | —† | — | 3.83 | —† |
| UC Davis → | 10 | —† | —† | —† | —† | — | 3.81 | —† |
What This Means
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