Summary:
The Options for Youth San Gabriel District contains a single, non-traditional charter school, Options for Youth San Gabriel, which serves grades 7 through 12 in an alternative education setting for 244 students.
This school shows significant strengths and challenges, with notable volatility in its year-to-year performance rankings. It demonstrates pockets of academic success, such as 7th-grade math scores exceeding the state average, but overall test proficiency in English and math is below state benchmarks. A particularly concerning finding is the school's very low graduation rate of 28.9% and high dropout rate of 37.7%, which are not fully explained by test scores alone and suggest significant barriers to student completion. Chronic absenteeism is also high at 29.3%, which correlates with these academic outcomes.
Operating with a high student-teacher ratio and notably low per-student spending compared to state averages, the school serves a population with high economic need. The data indicates a program managing severe resource constraints while working with a high-needs student body, resulting in inconsistent performance across grades and subjects but maintaining a mid-range state ranking. The extreme graduation and dropout figures represent the most urgent area for improvement.
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