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New Valley Continuation High

Santa Clara · Santa Clara County · Santa Clara Unified · Public

Public Santa Clara County Santa Clara Unified → CDS 4369674…
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At a glance

Academic signals
  • AP rigor: Bottom 6% of US high schools
  • 4-yr grad rate: 72% in 2019 (Bottom 16% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)

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

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California College-Going Rate

31.7% of the 2022-23 graduating class enrolled in college within a year.

The share of 2022-23 graduates who enrolled at a college anywhere in the U.S. within 12 months, per the National Student Clearinghouse match the California Department of Education publishes.

Within 12 months
31.7%
of 82 graduates

Give the same class four more months and 37.8% had enrolled — CDE publishes a 16-month window alongside the 12-month one, 31 students.

Up 10.3 points from the 2021-22 class (21.4%).

Where the 2022-23 class enrolled

In California — 23 students (28.0%)

University of California 0.0% 0
California State University 0.0% 0
California Community College 28.0% 23
California private college 0.0% 0

Out of state — 3 students (3.7%)

Out-of-state 4-year 1.2% 1
Out-of-state 2-year 2.4% 2

CDE puts each graduate in one bucket only — whichever kind of college they were enrolled in longest — so these add up to the rate above. That is a different count from the UC Reach Score on this page, which counts a student at every UC campus that admitted them.

Source: California Department of Education, College-Going Rate (DataQuest) ↗, cohort 2022-23, posted 17-Sep-2025. Data file: cgr12mo23.txt ↗ (and the 16-month file ↗). CDE builds the rate by matching California high school completers to National Student Clearinghouse enrollment records; we publish CDE’s aggregates and hold no student-level data.

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 16% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate

50th 90th
4-year graduation rate
72%
Range: 70–74%
4-year cohort size
75
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

44.4%
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.

College readiness

Getting ready for college

These come from the state and federal files, not from UC — so they are here whether or not New Valley Continuation High has a UC admissions record.

Student-Counselor Ratio
Counseling here is unusually well-staffed — about 117 students per counselor, near what experts recommend.
117:1
1.0 FTE counselors · 117 students
In context: CA median 337:1 · 220 fewer students per counselor · ASCA target 250:1.
A-G Completion
Fewer than 1 in 10 graduates finish the courses UC and CSU require — below the state norm. Worth asking how course access and planning work here.
0%
2024-25 cohort
In context: CA median 55.9% · -55.9 pp vs. median · Santa Clara Co. 67.2%.

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.

Fewer than 1 in 10 students read and write at grade level — below the state norm — worth asking what extra support looks like.
Fewer than 1 in 10 students do math at grade level — below the state norm — worth asking what extra support looks like.
ELA — met or exceeded
n = 46
4.3%
incl. 0.0% exceeded
-53.9 pts vs. Santa Clara County median (58.3%) · CA median 54.5% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 79.4%
Math — met or exceeded
n = 49
0.0%
incl. 0.0% exceeded
-34.7 pts vs. Santa Clara County median (34.7%) · CA median 21.4% · 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 87% +6.9
White 7% -4.7
Two or more 3%
Not reported 2% +1.1
Asian 1% -1.0
Pacific Islander 1%

Program subgroups

Socioeconomically disadv. 56% -7.3
Students w/ disabilities 30% +16.5
English learners 17% -11.6

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.

72% of students miss 10%+ of school days — above the state's ~23%. Ask what the school is doing about engagement.
Chronic absent
72.3%
149 of 206 students

Roughly one in three students is chronically absent. A floor this high signals systemic engagement problems beyond what any single intervention can fix.

Santa Clara County median
19.0% · school is worse than 87% of 60 HS
Statewide median
22.8%
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)
125 (2018)117 (2026)
-6.4%
Grade 12 (graduating class)
81 (2018)73 (2026)
-9.9%

If this trend holds (+1.0%/yr, Total enrollment)

At per-pupil funding of $ / student:

Horizon Projected Total enrollment Change Funding impact / yr
1 yr (2027) ~118 +1 $0
3 yr (2029) ~120 +3 $0
5 yr (2031) ~123 +6 $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.

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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.

47% of students who start the year finish it here — more churn than most CA schools. Ask what's behind the turnover.
Critical
Bleeding from both ends.

Enrollment down 9.9% vs. county -3.1%, AND stability (47.2%) below the county median. Fewer families are choosing the school, and the ones who do aren't staying through year-end. Chronic absenteeism is also at 72.3% (up -1.5 pts from 2016-17) — engagement and demand are both signaling decline.

-9.9%  senior class, grade 12 (2018–2026)
-3.1%  Santa Clara County baseline
-6.8pp  gap vs. county
47.2%  retention (county median 90.4%)
Senior class (grade 12) — indexed to 100 at 2018
Stability rate by year (raw %)
Stability rate
47.2%
103 of 218 students

115 of 218 students who enrolled at New Valley Continuation High this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (52.8% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.

Santa Clara County median
90.4% · school is in the 10th percentile of 62 HS
Statewide median
87.3% · in the 15th percentile of 1,734 HS

Stability by student group

Hispanic / Latino (181) 47.5%
Socio. disadvantaged (143) 49.0%
Students w/ disabilities (52) 46.2%
English learners (52) 57.7%

Nearest peer high schools

Boynton High School 48.2% Pegasus High 58.0% Apollo High 78.1% Mission Early College High School 96.7% Alta Vista High 49.0%

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 — Santa Clara 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
$455.7M
+24.3% since FY2017
Per-pupil revenue
$30,776
14,808 students enrolled
Revenue mix
State: 10.5%
Local: 83.8%
Federal: 5.7%
Instruction share
57.8%
of current spending · $12,558/pupil
Long-term debt
$1015.2M
+43.8% since FY2017
Total revenue by year ($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 Santa Clara 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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