No UC admissions data on file for Valley Robotics Academy.

This school doesn't appear in UCOP's source-school records (it may send few or no applicants to UC). Its enrollment trend and similar-school comparison are still below.

Valley Robotics Academy

Lodi · San Joaquin County · Lodi Unified · Public

Public San Joaquin County Lodi Unified → CDS 3968585…
Shareable scorecard →

Top 25% Math · SBAC (CA) Top 8 Attendance (lowest chronic absenteeism) in San Joaquin

At a glance

Programs & features
  • Gifted & talented program
Academic signals
  • AP rigor: Bottom 14% of US high schools

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

How Valley Robotics Academy compares for families

What families should know about Valley Robotics Academy.

  • Locally🎯 Top 8 in San Joaquin County on Attendance (lowest chronic absenteeism).
  • vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Rio Valley Charter School, Vista Oaks Charter School, Middle College High and 2 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
You've seen Valley Robotics Academy. What are your child's real college odds? Check any college in 10 seconds — no email needed — then get the free Family Decision Report: Reach / Competitive / Match / Likely + the real cost range for every college on their list. Check odds →

For Parents

Get alerts when Valley Robotics Academy's numbers change

New admissions results, enrollment shifts, test scores — a few alerts a year, no spam. Your email also saves your list across devices.

Objective, government-grade data — no school pays us for placement.

California College-Going Rate

60.7% 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
60.7%
of 28 graduates

Give the same class four more months and 64.3% had enrolled — CDE publishes a 16-month window alongside the 12-month one, 18 students.

Where the 2022-23 class enrolled

In California — 17 students (60.7%)

University of California 3.6% 1
California State University 3.6% 1
California Community College 53.6% 15
California private college 0.0% 0

Out of state — 0 students (0.0%)

Out-of-state 4-year 0.0% 0
Out-of-state 2-year 0.0% 0

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.

Federal Title I context

Title I Schoolwide eligible

≥40% FRPL — qualifies for Title I Schoolwide program

50.7%
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 Valley Robotics Academy has a UC admissions record.

Student-Counselor Ratio
Each counselor juggles about 1440 students — above the level experts recommend. Ask how junior-year college advising is handled.
1440:1
0.2 FTE counselors · 288 students
In context: CA median 337:1 · 1103 more students per counselor · ASCA target 250:1.
A-G Completion
Only 1 in 10 graduates finish the courses UC and CSU require — below the state norm. Worth asking how course access and planning work here.
12%
3 of 25 graduates · 2022-23 cohort
In context: CA median 54.1% · -42.1 pp vs. median · San Joaquin Co. 35.0%.

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.

About half of students read and write at grade level — about the state norm.
About half of students do math at grade level — the top quarter of California high schools.
ELA — met or exceeded
n = 14
50.0%
incl. 21.4% exceeded
On the San Joaquin County median (50.5%) · CA median 54.5% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 79.4%
Math — met or exceeded
n = 14
50.0%
incl. 0.0% exceeded
+30.4 pts above San Joaquin County median (19.6%) · 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

White 36%
Asian 30% +13.3
Hispanic / Latino 20% -12.8
Two or more 4%
Filipino 3%
Pacific Islander 3% +1.9
Black / African Am. 2% -2.0
Not reported 2% -1.0
American Indian 1%

Program subgroups

Socioeconomically disadv. 41% +12.2

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.

Kids show up: 11% are chronically absent versus about 23% statewide — engagement most schools would envy.
Chronic absent
10.7%
11 of 103 students

Absenteeism is down 45.3 pp since 2020-21. Engagement improving — a positive trajectory worth understanding and reinforcing.

San Joaquin County median
20.5% · school is better than 87% of 47 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)
79 (2020)288 (2026)
+264.6%
Grade 12 (graduating class)
33 (2023)17 (2026)
-48.5%

How does Valley Robotics Academy really compare on getting kids to college?

Unlock a head-to-head snapshot of Valley Robotics Academy against its 10 most similar nearby schools — matched on size, location, type. See exactly where it stands on the college pipeline.

The full head-to-head table — every peer school's UC Reach, side by side.
Enrollment trend + 3-year projection — is this school growing or quietly shrinking?
The plain-English read on what it all means for your family.

Your similar-school group includes

Rio Valley Charter School · Vista Oaks Charter School · Middle College High · Pacific Law Academy · Stockton High · Independence School · +4 more

Objective, government-grade data — no school pays us for placement. We'll email you the snapshot and a few alerts a year. Unsubscribe anytime.

Enrollment stability & demand — 2024-25

Two complementary signals: retention (do students stay once enrolled?) and demand (are families choosing the school?). Read against the San Joaquin County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.

89% of students who start the year here finish it here.
Critical
Sharp demand downturn hidden by elite retention.

Valley Robotics Academy's enrollment is shrinking 9.5× the county rate (school -48.5% vs. county +5.1%). Stability of 88.8% means every family you keep is one fewer; the leverage is at recruitment, not retention. This is the case the high stability number alone would hide.

-48.5%  senior class, grade 12 (2023–2026)
+5.1%  San Joaquin County baseline
-53.6pp  gap vs. county
88.8%  retention (county median 86.0%)
Senior class (grade 12) — indexed to 100 at 2023
Stability rate by year (raw %)
Stability rate
88.8%
95 of 107 students

12 of 107 students who enrolled at Valley Robotics Academy this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (11.2% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.

San Joaquin County median
86.0% · school is in the 60th percentile of 47 HS
Statewide median
87.3% · in the 58th percentile of 1,734 HS

Stability by student group

Socio. disadvantaged (152) 92.1%
Hispanic / Latino (95) 88.4%
White (90) 94.4%
Asian (60) 91.7%
Students w/ disabilities (34) 97.1%

Nearest peer high schools

Rio Valley Charter School 77.8% Vista Oaks Charter School 84.2% Middle College High 96.0% Pacific Law Academy 95.0% Stockton High 39.7%

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 — Lodi 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
$480.7M
+16.9% since FY2017
Per-pupil revenue
$17,231
27,896 students enrolled
Revenue mix
State: 64.8%
Local: 20.9%
Federal: 14.3%
Instruction share
57.3%
of current spending · $8,708/pupil
Long-term debt
$301.1M
+39.9% since FY2017
Total revenue by year ($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 Lodi 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).

For School Admins

The full Reach Report for Valley Robotics Academy

A board- and LCAP-ready intelligence brief: your enrollment retention and college outcomes, benchmarked against your closest competitors, with a 5-year forecast, concrete steps to act on, and the rigor + outcomes story you can share with your families. Built from primary public data — prepared for you, not auto-generated.

  • Student-retention benchmarking vs your county median — and the LCAP evidence to back your goals
See a sample report →

Related reading

The data Newsom asked for already exists — school by school

UC testing review · August 25, 2026

Nursing at NYU is harder to get into than Brown

College admissions · August 21, 2026

All stories from the data →

For Parents

Researching colleges for your kid at Valley Robotics Academy?

Check any college's odds in 10 seconds — no email needed — then get the free Family Decision Report: Reach / Competitive / Match / Likely with real admit odds and your real net price, for every college on their list.

Check your child's odds →

For School Admins looking at enrollment trends: request a Reach Report →

What are your child's odds? →

What families ask next