Mesa Verde High

Summary:

Mesa Verde High is a public high school located in Citrus Heights, California, serving grades 9-12 with a total enrollment of 888 students. The school is part of the San Juan Unified School District, which is ranked 923 out of 1,568 districts in California and has a 2-star rating from SchoolDigger.

Mesa Verde High consistently ranks in the bottom half of California high schools, with its academic performance significantly below the state and district averages. In 2023-2024, only 29.22% of 11th-grade students were proficient or better in English Language Arts/Literacy, compared to 55.73% statewide and 44.31% in the San Juan Unified School District. In Mathematics, the proficiency rate was just 8.11%, compared to 27.9% statewide and 23.08% in the district. The school's performance is particularly low for certain student subgroups, such as Hispanic and White students. Additionally, Mesa Verde High has had a lower four-year graduation rate than the state and district averages, and its dropout rate has been steadily increasing.

Interestingly, the nearby schools in the San Juan Unified School District, such as Bella Vista High, generally perform better academically and have higher graduation rates than Mesa Verde High. Bella Vista High, for example, ranks much higher in the state (ranked 504 out of 2,323 in 2023-2024) and has significantly higher proficiency rates in English Language Arts/Literacy and Mathematics. In contrast, the nearby schools in the Twin Rivers Unified School District, such as Foothill High and Highlands High, have similar or lower academic performance compared to Mesa Verde High.


Detail:

Public 9-12

 7501 Carriage Dr.
       Citrus Heights, CA  95621-2000


(916) 971-5288

District: San Juan Unified

SchoolDigger Rank:
1428th of 2,323 California High Schools

Per Pupil Expenditures:  $9,295 Help


Feeder schools for Mesa Verde High:

Elementary:    Arlington Heights Elementary
    Grand Oaks Elementary
    Lichen K-8
    Mariposa Avenue Elementary
Middle:    Sylvan Middle

Student/teacher ratio:  20.8 Help
Number of students:  888

Racial breakdown:

White:
43.4%
Hispanic:
39.3%
Two or more races:
6.6%
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Free/discounted lunch recipients:  57.4% Help


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Compare Details Mesa Verde High ranks worse than 61.5% of high schools in California. It also ranks 10th among 13 ranked high schools in the San Juan Unified School District. (See more...)
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Compare Details In 2024 the calculated Average Standard Score was 29.8. (See more...)
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The Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate (ACGR) measures the percentage of Mesa Verde High freshmen who graduate within four years, adjusting for students who transfer in or out.
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The high school dropout rate measures the percentage of students who do not complete their high school education.
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Chronic absenteeism in a high school refers to a situation where students repeatedly miss school, with the threshold often defined as missing 10% or more of school days for any reason, excused or unexcused.
Student Body
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Compare Details Racial makeup is: White (43.4%), Hispanic (39.3%), two or more races (6.6%). (See more...)
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Compare Details 57.4% of students are receiving a free or discounted lunch. (See more...)
Teachers
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Compare Details The student/teacher ratio at Mesa Verde High is 20.8, which is the 7th best among 13 high schools in the San Juan Unified School District. (See more...)
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Compare Mesa Verde High employs 42.6 full-time teachers.
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Compare Details The average total spent per student at Mesa Verde High is $9,295, which is the 7th highest among 13 high schools in the San Juan Unified School District.
Schooldigger 2024 Rankings:

Mesa Verde High:

SchoolDigger ranks Mesa Verde High 1428th of 2323 California public high schools. (See Mesa Verde High in the ranking list.)

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San Juan Unified:

SchoolDigger ranks San Juan Unified 923rd of 1568 California school districts. (See district ranking list.)


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Rank History for Mesa Verde High

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Rank History for all students at Mesa Verde High

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked High Schools CA State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2004 38.46 734th 1653 55.6%
2005 41.95 756th 1901 60.2%
2006 46.94 692nd 1968 64.8%
2007 44.83 756th 2063 63.4%
2008 41.33 880th 2117 58.4%
2009 49.00 773rd 2238 65.5%
2010 41.89 969th 2281 57.5%
2011 36.17 1145th 2367 51.6%
2012 33.20 1227th 2354 47.9%
2013 31.47 1279th 2426 47.3%
2015 41.58 1147th 1994 42.5%
2016 42.39 1152nd 2039 43.5%
2017 37.53 1274th 2021 37.0%
2018 31.94 1348th 2017 33.2%
2019 41.34 1180th 2133 44.7%
2021 25.61 960th 1290 25.6%
2022 25.89 1517th 2123 28.5%
2023 36.29 1244th 2348 47.0%
2024 29.80 1428th 2323 38.5%
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Rank History for Multi-racial students at Mesa Verde High

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked High Schools CA State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2023 18.07 610th 786 22.4%
2024 37.32 454th 804 43.5%
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Rank History for English Language Learner students at Mesa Verde High

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked High Schools CA State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2023 30.05 809th 1323 38.9%
2024 24.90 1049th 1350 22.3%
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Rank History for Special Education students at Mesa Verde High

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked High Schools CA State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2023 32.87 892nd 1547 42.3%
2024 44.23 608th 1534 60.4%
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Rank History for Low Socio Economic Status students at Mesa Verde High

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked High Schools CA State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 32.91 1269th 1862 31.8%
2019 43.93 1076th 1937 44.5%
2021 25.03 867th 1126 23.0%
2022 26.85 1414th 1943 27.2%
2023 36.06 1244th 2247 44.6%
2024 29.53 1439th 2235 35.6%
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Rank History for Homeless students at Mesa Verde High

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked High Schools CA State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2022 26.82 217th 290 25.2%
2023 49.41 169th 417 59.5%
2024 53.30 199th 451 55.9%
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Rank History for Female students at Mesa Verde High

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked High Schools CA State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 31.40 1239th 1760 29.6%
2019 33.29 1205th 1833 34.3%
2021 29.23 772nd 1054 26.8%
2022 27.83 1318th 1858 29.1%
2023 36.12 1193rd 2118 43.7%
2024 26.18 1457th 2098 30.6%
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Rank History for Disabled students at Mesa Verde High

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked High Schools CA State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 21.35 919th 1052 12.6%
2019 28.01 812th 1117 27.3%
2021 35.20 336th 555 39.5%
2022 30.43 812th 1161 30.1%
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Rank History for Male students at Mesa Verde High

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked High Schools CA State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 28.70 1265th 1834 31.0%
2019 42.81 1033rd 1880 45.1%
2021 17.83 925th 1122 17.6%
2022 21.64 1466th 1916 23.5%
2023 32.85 1256th 2207 43.1%
2024 29.48 1334th 2172 38.6%
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Rank History for African American students at Mesa Verde High

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked High Schools CA State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 29.41 406th 582 30.2%
2024 23.00 583rd 721 19.1%
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Rank History for Hispanic students at Mesa Verde High

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked High Schools CA State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 29.96 1222nd 1742 29.9%
2019 45.20 998th 1814 45.0%
2022 20.94 1478th 1861 20.6%
2023 27.87 1427th 2142 33.4%
2024 20.22 1576th 2125 25.8%
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Rank History for White students at Mesa Verde High

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked High Schools CA State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 15.10 996th 1173 15.1%
2019 20.28 1000th 1222 18.2%
2022 11.41 1078th 1204 10.5%
2023 22.11 1060th 1434 26.1%
2024 16.40 1117th 1406 20.6%
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Data source: test scores: California Department of Education, rankings: SchoolDigger.com

As you review the school rankings data, please be aware that some of the information from certain demographics is missing. The reason for this omission is that the data has been redacted from the source data itself due to low population samples in these specific demographic groups.

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Enrollment information for Mesa Verde High

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Year White African American Asian Hispanic American Indian Pacific Islander Two or More Races Not Specified Total
1988 904 34 30 46 10 n/a n/a 0 1024
1989 926 24 30 60 8 n/a n/a 0 1048
1990 620 50 101 217 74 n/a n/a 0 1062
1991 740 52 54 249 3 n/a n/a 0 1098
1992 980 24 41 94 22 n/a n/a 0 1161
1993 1029 27 38 99 7 n/a n/a 0 1200
1994 942 37 47 86 28 n/a n/a 0 1140
1995 858 30 40 89 30 n/a n/a 0 1047
1996 858 30 40 89 30 n/a n/a 0 1047
1997 902 38 34 80 21 n/a n/a 0 1075
1998 912 43 37 86 25 n/a n/a 0 1103
1999 894 57 29 101 29 n/a n/a 0 1110
2000 941 59 47 109 28 n/a n/a 0 1184
2001 977 57 54 123 32 n/a n/a 0 1243
2002 1005 53 58 131 38 n/a n/a 0 1285
2003 1005 53 58 131 38 n/a n/a 0 1285
2004 1015 75 54 152 29 n/a n/a 0 1325
2005 999 87 59 165 32 n/a n/a 0 1342
2006 965 79 64 183 31 n/a n/a 0 1322
2007 935 63 60 184 37 n/a n/a 1 1280
2008 865 58 64 207 27 n/a n/a 0 1221
2009 832 63 51 224 30 15 6 0 1221
2010 789 67 60 223 31 11 0 0 1181
2011 715 56 56 245 19 9 3 0 1103
2012 646 60 36 234 25 10 7 0 1018
2013 615 45 34 246 24 11 8 0 983
2014 567 56 33 246 23 10 9 0 944
2015 557 59 34 261 22 9 19 0 961
2016 537 63 41 275 13 6 4 0 939
2017 496 59 44 295 14 6 22 0 936
2018 460 50 37 316 12 6 28 0 909
2019 433 39 35 332 10 5 45 0 899
2020 397 40 30 318 7 5 53 3 853
2021 377 37 31 319 5 5 55 6 835
2022 392 48 34 323 4 5 59 9 874
2023 385 43 37 349 2 5 59 8 888

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Dept of Education.

About Enrollment/Ethnicity

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Students eligible for free or discounted lunch at Mesa Verde High

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Year # Students Full-time Teachers Student/Teacher ratio % Free/Discounted Lunch
1988 1024 45.4 22.5 n/a
1989 1048 44.3 23.6 n/a
1990 1062 46.3 22.9 n/a
1991 1098 45.5 24.1 n/a
1992 1161 46.2 25.1 9.6
1993 1200 44.6 26.9 11.8
1994 1140 48.2 23.7 11.6
1995 1047 44.6 23.5 19.6
1996 1047 44.6 23.5 19.6
1997 1075 45.2 23.8 20.7
1998 1103 48.6 22.7 20.6
1999 1110 46.0 24.1 24.7
2000 1184 43.9 27.0 17.9
2001 1243 56.0 22.2 15.4
2002 1285 54.1 23.8 10.9
2003 1285 54.1 23.8 10.9
2004 1325 52.7 25.1 13.9
2005 1342 56.0 24.0 17.1
2006 1322 53.5 24.7 23.1
2007 1280 53.5 23.9 29.1
2008 1221 55.9 21.8 33
2009 1221 48.3 22.5 40.5
2010 1181 46.6 25.3 48.2
2011 1103 n/a n/a 55.5
2012 1018 47.8 21.2 n/a
2013 983 41.2 23.8 55.6
2014 944 44.1 21.3 62.4
2015 961 44.0 21.8 63.8
2016 939 43.0 21.8 64.7
2017 936 45.3 20.6 63.1
2018 909 43.5 20.8 69.1
2019 899 44.8 20.0 65.4
2020 853 n/a n/a 64.5
2021 835 38.3 21.7 55.4
2022 874 44.4 19.6 54.2
2023 888 42.6 20.8 57.4

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Dept of Education.

About Students eligible for discounted/free lunch:

The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) provides low-cost or free meals to students in U.S. public and nonprofit private schools based on household income. Those with incomes below 130% of the poverty line receive free lunch, while those between 130% and 185% qualify for reduced-price lunch. The percentage of students receiving free or reduced-price lunch serves as a marker for poverty, as it reflects the socioeconomic status of families in a given school or district. A higher FRPL rate typically indicates a higher concentration of low-income families, suggesting that the school or district may face additional challenges in providing adequate resources and support for student success.

Student/Teacher Ratio Mesa Verde High

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Year # Students Full-time Teachers Student/Teacher ratio % Free/Discounted Lunch
1988 1024 45.4 22.5 n/a
1989 1048 44.3 23.6 n/a
1990 1062 46.3 22.9 n/a
1991 1098 45.5 24.1 n/a
1992 1161 46.2 25.1 9.6
1993 1200 44.6 26.9 11.8
1994 1140 48.2 23.7 11.6
1995 1047 44.6 23.5 19.6
1996 1047 44.6 23.5 19.6
1997 1075 45.2 23.8 20.7
1998 1103 48.6 22.7 20.6
1999 1110 46.0 24.1 24.7
2000 1184 43.9 27.0 17.9
2001 1243 56.0 22.2 15.4
2002 1285 54.1 23.8 10.9
2003 1285 54.1 23.8 10.9
2004 1325 52.7 25.1 13.9
2005 1342 56.0 24.0 17.1
2006 1322 53.5 24.7 23.1
2007 1280 53.5 23.9 29.1
2008 1221 55.9 21.8 33
2009 1221 48.3 22.5 40.5
2010 1181 46.6 25.3 48.2
2011 1103 n/a n/a 55.5
2012 1018 47.8 21.2 n/a
2013 983 41.2 23.8 55.6
2014 944 44.1 21.3 62.4
2015 961 44.0 21.8 63.8
2016 939 43.0 21.8 64.7
2017 936 45.3 20.6 63.1
2018 909 43.5 20.8 69.1
2019 899 44.8 20.0 65.4
2020 853 n/a n/a 64.5
2021 835 38.3 21.7 55.4
2022 874 44.4 19.6 54.2
2023 888 42.6 20.8 57.4

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Dept of Education.

About Student-Teacher Ratio

Student/teacher ratio is calculated by dividing the total number of students by the total number of full-time equivalent teachers. Please note that a smaller student/teacher ratio does not necessarily translate to smaller class size. In some instances, schools hire teachers part time, and some teachers are hired for specialized instruction with very small class sizes. These and other factors contribute to the student/teacher ratio. Note: For private schools, Student/teacher ratio may not include Pre-Kindergarten.
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Per Pupil Expenditures for Mesa Verde High

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YearTotal Expenditures Per Pupil
2018 $9,295

Data source: California Department of Education
Pre and Post Pandemic Data

Impact of COVID-19 on Mesa Verde High

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Rankings

Rank
Pre-pandemic (2018-2019)
Rank
Post pandemic (2022-2023)
Change (%)
Ranks 1180th of 2133 High schoolsRanks 1244th of 2348 High schools
 2.3%

Test Scores

% proficient
Pre-pandemic (2018-2019)
% proficient
Post pandemic (2022-2023)
Change (%)
11th Grade English Language Arts/Literacy (Mesa Verde High)43.944.3
 0.4%
   11th Grade English Language Arts/Literacy (San Juan Unified)52.455.2
 2.9%
   11th Grade English Language Arts/Literacy (California)57.355.4
 1.9%
11th Grade Mathematics (Mesa Verde High)17.710.4
 7.3%
   11th Grade Mathematics (San Juan Unified)31.127.1
 4%
   11th Grade Mathematics (California)32.227.4
 4.9%
12th Grade Science (Mesa Verde High)14.817.8
 3.1%
   12th Grade Science (San Juan Unified)28.331.9
 3.5%
   12th Grade Science (California)25.626.9
 1.3%

Student Body

Number of students
Pre-pandemic (2018-2019)
Number of students
Post pandemic (2022-2023)
Change (%)
Total Students899888
 1.2%
African American3943
 10.3%
American Indian102
 80%
Asian3537
 5.7%
Hispanic332349
 5.1%
Pacific Islander55
White433385
 11.1%
Two or More Races4559
 31.1%
% Free/Discounted Lunch Recipients65.4%57.4%
 8%


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Frequently Asked Questions about Mesa Verde High

Mesa Verde High is fed by the following schools:

Elementary : Arlington Heights Elementary
Elementary : Grand Oaks Elementary
Elementary : Lichen K-8
Elementary : Mariposa Avenue Elementary
Middle : Sylvan Middle

In the 2022-23 school year, 888 students attended Mesa Verde High.

Mesa Verde High ranks 1428th of 2323 California high schools. SchoolDigger rates this school 2 stars out of 5.

Students at Mesa Verde High are 43% White, 39% Hispanic, 7% Two or more races, 5% African American, 4% Asian.


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