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La Paloma High (Continuation) is a public high school located in Brentwood, California, serving grades 9-12 with a relatively small student population of 191 students. The school is part of the Liberty Union High School District, which is ranked 682 out of 1,568 districts in California and has a 3-star rating from SchoolDigger.
Despite being a continuation high school, La Paloma High has consistently struggled with low academic performance, ranking in the bottom 15-20% of California high schools with a 1-star rating from SchoolDigger. In the 2023-2024 school year, only 11.39% of 11th-grade students were proficient or better in English Language Arts/Literacy, compared to 60.35% for the Liberty Union High School District and 55.73% for the state of California. In mathematics, the proficiency rate was just 1.27% for 11th-grade students, compared to 25.26% for the district and 27.9% for the state. The school has also experienced high dropout rates, ranging from 15.2% to 27.9% over the past five years, and extremely high chronic absenteeism, with rates between 86.5% and 95.6% during the same period.
When compared to other high schools in the Liberty Union High School District, such as Freedom High, Heritage High, and Liberty High, La Paloma High's performance is significantly lower across all academic metrics, graduation rates, and attendance measures. Similarly, when compared to other continuation schools outside of the district, such as Live Oak High (Continuation) in the Antioch Unified School District, La Paloma High faces similar challenges with low academic achievement, high dropout rates, and chronic absenteeism.
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