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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% in 2019 (Bottom 33% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)

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

How Vineyard Alternative School compares for families

Solid mid-tier academic profile.

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California College-Going Rate

46.9% 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

46.9%

of 32 graduates

Give the same class four more months and 46.9% had enrolled — CDE publishes a 16-month window alongside the 12-month one, 15 students.

Up 10.2 points from the 2021-22 class (36.7%).

Where the 2022-23 class enrolled

In California — 14 students (43.8%)

University of California 0.0% 0

California State University 0.0% 0

California Community College 43.8% 14

California private college 0.0% 0

Out of state — 1 students (3.1%)

Out-of-state 4-year 3.1% 1

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.

Academic rigor

AP + advanced-course offerings

Moderate — some AP / advanced course access

Bottom 37% of US high schools

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AP courses offered

Subject breadth not reported

Students taking AP courses

≈1 per 100 students · uptake, not just offerings

Lab science classes

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

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

4-year graduation rate

84%

Range: 80–89%

4-year cohort size

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.

College readiness

Getting ready for college

These come from the state and federal files, not from UC — so they are here whether or not Vineyard Alternative School has a UC admissions record.

Student-Counselor Ratio ⓘ

Counseling here is unusually well-staffed — about 71 students per counselor, near what experts recommend.

71:1

0.8 FTE counselors · 57 students

In context: CA median 337:1 · 266 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.

2 of 31 graduates · 2024-25 cohort

In context: CA median 55.9% · -49.4 pp vs. median · Alameda Co. 77.3%.

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 6 in 10 students read and write at grade level — above the state norm.

About 1 in 4 students do math at grade level — about the state norm.

ELA — met or exceeded

n = 15

60.0%

incl. 13.3% exceeded

+4.6 pts above Alameda County median (55.4%) · CA median 54.5% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 79.4%

Math — met or exceeded

n = 12

25.0%

incl. 8.3% exceeded

On the Alameda County median (24.4%) · 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 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.

55% of students miss 10%+ of school days — above the state's ~23%. Ask what the school is doing about engagement.

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 78% of 73 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)

94 (2024) → 57 (2026)

-39.4%

Grade 12 (graduating class)

27 (2024) → 17 (2026)

-37.0%

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

65% of students who start the year here finish it here.

Critical

Compounding decline on both vectors.

Enrollment -37.0% vs. county -10.2% 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% senior class, grade 12 (2024–2026)

-10.2% Alameda County baseline

-26.8pp gap vs. county

65.3% retention (county median 90.2%)

Senior class (grade 12) — 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

90.2% · school is in the 20th percentile of 74 HS

Statewide median

87.3% · in the 22nd percentile of 1,734 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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