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Millennium High Alternative

· Alameda County · Piedmont City Unified · Public

Public Alameda County 🏛 Piedmont City Unified → CDS 0161275…
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📋 At a glance

Programs & features
  • ✅ Gifted & talented program
Academic signals
  • 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 18% of US high schools
  • 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 90% (Bottom 49% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)

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

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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?

Bottom 49% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate

50th 90th
4-year graduation rate
90%
Range: 80–100%
4-year cohort size
28
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

Lower-need school

Not Title I eligible (FRPL < 25%)

18.0%
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)

<25% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. Well below the Title I threshold; expect a higher-income student body on average.

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 = 13
53.9%
incl. 23.1% exceeded
-1.5 pts vs. Alameda County median (55.4%) · CA median 54.3% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 79.3%
Math — met or exceeded
n = 14
35.7%
incl. 21.4% exceeded
+11.5 pts above Alameda County median (24.2%) · 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 41% -1.1
Hispanic / Latino 27% +13.1
Two or more 17%
Asian 8% -2.2
Black / African Am. 4% -11.3
Pacific Islander 1%
American Indian 1%

Program subgroups

Socioeconomically disadv. 15%

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
23.9%
16 of 67 students

Absenteeism is up 8.6 pp since 2016-17. A rising absenteeism trend often precedes formal departure — worth investigating which subgroups are driving it.

Alameda County median
25.4% · school is better than 54% of 69 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)
60 (2018)75 (2026)
+25.0%
Grade 12 (graduating class)
18 (2018)19 (2026)
+5.6%

If this trend holds (+0.9%/yr, Total enrollment)

At per-pupil funding of $ / student:

Horizon Projected Total enrollment Change Funding impact / yr
1 yr (2027) ~76 +1 $0
3 yr (2029) ~77 +2 $0
5 yr (2031) ~78 +3 $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.

Millennium High Alternative — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot

Public · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools

  • Senior-class enrollment is up 6% (18→19 from 2018 to 2026), outpacing the peer-group median of -21%.
  • Enrollment has been growing (+2.8%/yr); projects to ~82 by 2029.

Enrollment projection

75 students (2026)
~82 projected (2029)
at +2.8%/yr

Your school vs. its 10 most similar nearby schools

School Type Size UC Reach Score Enroll. trend
Millennium High Alternative Public 75 +6%
Peer-group median 20 -21%
Street Academy Alternative High Public 83 +4%
Alternatives in Action Hs Public 86 +440%
Gateway To College High At Laney College Public 100 -11%
Ralph J. Bunche Continuation High Public 53 -40%
Berkeley Technology Academy Public 52 +5%
Island High (continuation) Public 50 -55%
Dewey High School Public 127 -52%
Lincoln High (continuation) Public 112 -31%
Emery Secondary School Public 148 31 +6%
Lps Oakland R&d Campus Public 143 8 -36%

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

Mixed signal
Outperforming on demand; some mid-year churn to look at.

Millennium High Alternative is recruiting families faster than Alameda County is shrinking (school +5.6% vs. county +0.6%), but 8 students didn't make it to year-end. The recruitment engine works; the mid-year exits are worth understanding. Chronic absenteeism is rising (23.9%, +8.6 pts since 2016-17) — a watch signal worth monitoring as a leading indicator.

+5.6%  school enrollment (2018–2026)
+0.6%  Alameda County baseline
+5.0pp  gap vs. county
88.2%  retention (county median 89.9%)
Enrollment — indexed to 100 at 2018
Stability rate by year (raw %)
Stability rate
88.2%
60 of 68 students

8 of 68 students who enrolled at Millennium High Alternative this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (11.8% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.

Alameda County median
89.9% · school is in the 44th percentile of 70 HS
Statewide median
87.2% · in the 55th percentile of 1,688 HS

Stability by student group

Students w/ disabilities (38) 89.5%
White (28) 89.3%

Nearest peer high schools

Street Academy Alternative High 49.5% Alternatives in Action Hs 72.6% Gateway To College High At Laney College 62.8% Ralph J. Bunche Continuation High 27.8% Berkeley Technology Academy 54.7%

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 — Piedmont 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
$54.3M
+2.2% since FY2017
Per-pupil revenue
$22,052
2,464 students enrolled
Revenue mix
State: 24.4%
Local: 72.0%
Federal: 3.6%
Instruction share
58.3%
of current spending · $11,774/pupil
Long-term debt
$148.4M
+43.6% since FY2017
Total revenue by year ($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 Piedmont 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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