Summary:
The Alta Vista Innovation High District consists of a single high school, Alta Vista Innovation High, serving grades 9-12 with an enrollment of over 2,800 students.
This school faces significant and widespread challenges, consistently performing far below state averages. Academic proficiency rates are very low, with only about 23% of students proficient in English and a strikingly low 8% proficient in mathematics, compared to state averages of 49% and 37%, respectively. Furthermore, the graduation rate is critically low at 19%, while the dropout rate is high at nearly 20%, both figures representing extreme gaps compared to the state.
Key areas of concern include a chronic absenteeism rate of 72%, which is more than three times the state average and severely impacts learning, and a very high student-to-teacher ratio of nearly 33-to-1. Despite per-student spending that is above the national average, these outcomes have persisted over several years, indicating deep-rooted systemic issues that require comprehensive intervention and support for the student population.
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