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Opportunity Youth Academy

· Santa Clara County · Santa Clara County Office of Education · Public

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📋 At a glance

Programs & features
Academic signals
  • 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 6% of US high schools
  • 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 12% (Bottom 2% 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 2% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate

50th 90th
4-year graduation rate
12%
Range: 10–14%
4-year cohort size
168
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

69.6%
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 = 102
14.7%
incl. 0.0% exceeded
-43.1 pts vs. Santa Clara County median (57.8%) · CA median 54.3% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 79.3%
Math — met or exceeded
n = 100
5.0%
incl. 4.0% exceeded
-26.2 pts vs. Santa Clara County median (31.2%) · 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

Hispanic / Latino 87% -1.4
White 5% +1.1
Black / African Am. 4% +1.0
Two or more 2% +1.0
Asian 1%

Program subgroups

Students w/ disabilities 87%
English learners 25% -1.9
Homeless 20% +10.8
Socioeconomically disadv. 18% -5.7

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
76.5%
372 of 486 students

Absenteeism is down 12.5 pp since 2016-17. Engagement improving — a positive trajectory worth understanding and reinforcing.

Santa Clara County median
19.0% · school is worse than 91% of 58 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)
222 (2018)333 (2026)
+50.0%
Grade 12 (graduating class)
203 (2018)114 (2026)
-43.8%

If this trend holds (+2.8%/yr, Total enrollment)

At per-pupil funding of $ / student:

Horizon Projected Total enrollment Change Funding impact / yr
1 yr (2027) ~342 +9 $0
3 yr (2029) ~362 +29 $0
5 yr (2031) ~383 +50 $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.

Opportunity Youth Academy — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot

Public · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools

  • Senior-class enrollment is down 44% (203→114 from 2018 to 2026), trailing the peer-group median of -6%.
  • Enrollment has been growing (+5.2%/yr); projects to ~388 by 2029.

Enrollment projection

333 students (2026)
~388 projected (2029)
at +5.2%/yr

Your school vs. its 10 most similar nearby schools

School Type Size UC Reach Score Enroll. trend
Opportunity Youth Academy Public 333 -44%
Peer-group median 14 -6%
Alpha Cindy Avitia High School Public 341 10 -4%
Ace Charter High School Public 283 3 +19%
Kipp Navigate College Prep Public 300 14 -5%
Latino College Prep Academy Public 427 24 -8%
Luis Valdez Leadership Academy Public 261 14 +6%
Kipp San Jose Collegiate Public 530 42 +38%
Foothill High Public 217 -36%
Downtown College Prep - Alum Rock Public 202 -21%
San Jose Conservation Corps Charter Public 185 -29%
B. Roberto Cruz Leadership Academy Public 215 -10%

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

Critical
Compounding decline on both vectors.

Enrollment -43.8% vs. county -6.2% AND stability (29.9%) below the county median. Recruitment and retention both under pressure — likely a foundational rather than tactical problem. Chronic absenteeism is also at 76.5% (up -12.5 pts from 2016-17) — engagement and demand are both signaling decline.

-43.8%  school enrollment (2018–2026)
-6.2%  Santa Clara County baseline
-37.6pp  gap vs. county
29.9%  retention (county median 90.2%)
Enrollment — indexed to 100 at 2018
Stability rate by year (raw %)
Stability rate
29.9%
172 of 575 students

403 of 575 students who enrolled at Opportunity Youth Academy this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (70.1% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.

Santa Clara County median
90.2% · school is in the 5th percentile of 60 HS
Statewide median
87.2% · in the 6th percentile of 1,688 HS

Stability by student group

Hispanic / Latino (501) 29.7%
Socio. disadvantaged (470) 28.5%
English learners (149) 24.8%
Students w/ disabilities (131) 32.1%
White (31) 41.9%
Black / African Am. (21) 33.3%

Nearest peer high schools

Alpha Cindy Avitia High School 87.5% Ace Charter High School 87.5% Kipp Navigate College Prep 90.1% Luis Valdez Leadership Academy 85.0%

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 County Office of Education (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
$352.8M
+8.7% since FY2017
Per-pupil revenue
$232,405
1,518 students enrolled
Revenue mix
State: 14.1%
Local: 71.4%
Federal: 14.5%
Instruction share
37.4%
of current spending · $54,338/pupil
Long-term debt
$3.0M
-46.9% since FY2017
Total revenue by year ($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 Santa Clara County Office of Education 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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