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Hesperia, California - 1 schools
An equity score of 63/100 ranks Alta Vista Innovation High District #427 of 1517 districts in California (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $16,590 per pupil, Alta Vista Innovation High District ranks #619 of 1862 California districts by per-pupil spending (California districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
2,023
Total Enrollment
1
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$16,590
Per-Pupil Spending
High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Alta Vista Innovation High District operates 1 public schools serving 2,023 students, placing it among the smallest districts in California. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 high schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in San Bernardino County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $16,590 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 1862 California districts by per-pupil spending. See how California compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 2.1% local, 88.1% state, and 9.8% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles. The district's equity score is 63/100, ranked #427 of 1517 in California against a state average of 50, notably more even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 1 schools offering Advanced Placement (1 AP courses district-wide), a 540.8:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, . Use the school table below to drill into any individual campus for its own demographic and resource profile.
Its largest campus is Alta Vista Innovation High, enrolling 2,812 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Alta Vista Innovation High accounts for 100.0% of all Alta Vista Innovation High District student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Alta Vista Innovation High District a distant remainder — means Alta Vista Innovation High District-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: high. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
Alta Vista Innovation High District has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 81.7% of the population qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch
free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is the federal threshold for Title I funding allocations, established under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015). Areas above 75% eligibility — including this one — receive concentration grants on top of the basic Title I formula. Regions with eligibility this high typically draw a substantially larger federal funding share relative to their local tax base, which can either offset or reinforce existing gaps depending on allocation policy.
Alta Vista Innovation High District student-counselor ratio is 541:1 — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment, districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted Values this far above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.
Comparisons are relative to Alta Vista Innovation High District's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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