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Vineyard Alternative School

Livermore · Alameda County · Public

Public Alameda County CDS 0161200…
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📋 At a glance

Programs & features
  • 📚 1 AP courses offered — Moderate
  • ✅ Dual-enrollment program (college credit while in HS)
  • ✅ Gifted & talented program
Academic signals
  • 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 37% of US high schools
  • 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 84% (Bottom 33% 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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How Vineyard Alternative School compares for families

Solid mid-tier academic profile.

  • vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Del Valle Continuation High, Valley High (continuation), Del Amigo High (continuation) and 2 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.

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🎓 Academic rigor

AP + advanced-course offerings

Moderate — some AP / advanced course access

Bottom 37% of US high schools

50th 90th ↑ this school
Less rigorMore rigorMost rigor
AP courses offered
1
Subject breadth not reported
Students taking AP courses
1
≈1 per 100 students · uptake, not just offerings
Lab science classes
3
1 physics · 2 chemistry
Other rigor signals
✅ Dual-enrollment program
✅ Gifted/talented program

Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). CRDC reports what's offered + enrolled — it doesn't collect AP exam pass rates (College Board owns that data and doesn't release it school-level).

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 33% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate

50th 90th
4-year graduation rate
84%
Range: 80–89%
4-year cohort size
40
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

Mixed-income school

Below Title I eligibility threshold (FRPL < 35%)

31.5%
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)

25-34% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. Below the federal Title I threshold but a meaningful share of the population is income-eligible for free lunch.

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 = 15
60.0%
incl. 13.3% exceeded
+4.6 pts above Alameda County median (55.4%) · CA median 54.3% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 79.3%
Math — met or exceeded
n = 12
25.0%
incl. 8.3% exceeded
On the 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 39% -2.9
Hispanic / Latino 32% -5.6
Two or more 19% +4.4
Asian 7% +4.9
Black / African Am. 2%
Filipino 2%

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.

Chronic absent
55.4%
51 of 92 students

Absenteeism is up 7.6 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 worse than 77% 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)
94 (2024)57 (2026)
-39.4%
Grade 12 (graduating class)
27 (2024)17 (2026)
-37.0%

If this trend holds (-22.1%/yr, Total enrollment)

At per-pupil funding of $ / student:

Horizon Projected Total enrollment Change Funding impact / yr
1 yr (2027) ~44 -13 $0
3 yr (2029) ~27 -30 $0
5 yr (2031) ~16 -41 $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.

Vineyard Alternative School — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot

Public · Livermore · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools

  • Senior-class enrollment is down 37% (27→17 from 2024 to 2026), trailing the peer-group median of -15%.
  • At its recent rate (-22.1%/yr), enrollment projects to ~27 by 2029 — about 30 fewer students than today.

Enrollment projection

57 students (2026)
~27 projected (2029)
at -22.1%/yr

That's about 30 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
Vineyard Alternative School Public 57 -37%
Peer-group median 20.0% -15%
Del Valle Continuation High Public 83 -19%
Valley High (continuation) Public 45 -9%
Del Amigo High (continuation) Public 39 -16%
Village High Public 104 +22%
Bridgepoint High Public 52 -22%
Vista Alternative Public 47 -10%
Milpitas Middle College Hs Public 73 20.0% +56%
Redwood Continuation High Public 87 -13%
Core Learning Academy At Conley-Caraballo High Public 111 -34%
George And Evelyn Stein Continuation Public 95 -24%

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 Alameda 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 -37.0% vs. county -9.6% AND stability (65.3%) below the county median. Recruitment and retention both under pressure — likely a foundational rather than tactical problem. Chronic absenteeism is also at 58.9% (up +11.1 pts from 2016-17) — engagement and demand are both signaling decline.

-37.0%  school enrollment (2024–2026)
-9.6%  Alameda County baseline
-27.4pp  gap vs. county
65.3%  retention (county median 89.9%)
Enrollment — indexed to 100 at 2024
Stability rate by year (raw %)
Stability rate
65.3%
64 of 98 students

34 of 98 students who enrolled at Vineyard Alternative School this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (34.7% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.

Alameda County median
89.9% · school is in the 21st percentile of 70 HS
Statewide median
87.2% · in the 23rd percentile of 1,688 HS

Stability by student group

Hispanic / Latino (52) 55.8%
White (48) 70.8%
Socio. disadvantaged (48) 60.4%
Students w/ disabilities (37) 67.6%

Nearest peer high schools

Del Valle Continuation High 30.1% Valley High (continuation) 51.8% Del Amigo High (continuation) 32.2% Village High 61.5% Bridgepoint High 58.8%

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.

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