Alternative school · Kern High
Bakersfield · 9–12 · 491 students (2024–25)
Compared only with other alternative schools: higher than 52 of the 97 other scored California alternative high schools.
The dots are California’s 98 scored alternative high schools, placed by Scope Score on spring 2025 tests. How it’s built ›
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Learning
All students tested
9% met or exceeded · 253 tested
| Level | Here | Alternative schools |
|---|---|---|
| Exceeded | 0% | 9% |
| Met | 9% | 24% |
| Nearly met | 25% | 29% |
| Not met | 66% | 38% |
Below standard combines nearly met and not met. The full track represents all students tested. Share of students tested. Data source: California Department of Education, spring 2025. Reference combines schools in the same enrollment class.
All students tested
0% met or exceeded · 258 tested
| Level | Here | Alternative schools |
|---|---|---|
| Exceeded | 0% | 5% |
| Met | 0% | 6% |
| Nearly met | 5% | 14% |
| Not met | 95% | 75% |
Below standard combines nearly met and not met. The full track represents all students tested. Share of students tested. Data source: California Department of Education, spring 2025. Reference combines schools in the same enrollment class.
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How it compares · met or exceeded
Same grades · spring 2025 · 0–100%
Tested: 253 here · 12,384 in Alternative schools.
| Level | Here | Alternative schools |
|---|---|---|
| Exceeded | 0% | 9% |
| Met | 9% | 24% |
| Nearly met | 25% | 29% |
| Not met | 66% | 38% |
Below standard combines nearly met and not met. The full track represents all students tested. Share of students tested. Data source: California Department of Education, spring 2025. Reference combines schools in the same enrollment class.
All students tested
How it compares · met or exceeded
Same grades · spring 2025 · 0–100%
Tested: 258 here · 12,310 in Alternative schools.
| Level | Here | Alternative schools |
|---|---|---|
| Exceeded | 0% | 5% |
| Met | 0% | 6% |
| Nearly met | 5% | 14% |
| Not met | 95% | 75% |
Below standard combines nearly met and not met. The full track represents all students tested. Share of students tested. Data source: California Department of Education, spring 2025. Reference combines schools in the same enrollment class.
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Preparation · separate measures and cohorts
California alternative schools: 35%
California Department of Education, adjusted cohort graduation records. Comparison is SchoolScope’s combination of graduates and cohort counts across the reference schools, not CDE’s published state rate.
California Department of Education, College/Career Indicator overall Prepared. Prepared is CDE’s overall classification, not AP participation or a college admission rate.
California Department of Education, A–G completion records. Course completion is separate from college enrollment.
Destinations · class of 2023
19% enrolled in college within 12 months · 152 high-school completers
CDE CCI, all students · 200 eligible students. Cohort includes the current four-year graduation cohort and only Prepared fifth-year graduates from the prior cohort. Qualifies through two AP exams scored 3+, two AP courses completed with C− or better, or a qualifying combination in different subjects. Share among Prepared students, not all exam takers or course authorizations. Zero qualifiers does not establish whether AP is offered.
CDE CCI: completed a CTE pathway with C− or better in its capstone plus an additional criterion. Not all CTE completers or a list of courses offered.
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What’s it like
237 of 658 students missed 10% or more of school days.
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Met or exceeded · grade 11 · spring 2025. Compare each group with the same group in the same grades.
224 English · 228 math tested
222 English · 226 math tested
44 English · 45 math tested
31 English · 30 math tested
| Group and subject | Here | vs Alternative schools |
|---|---|---|
| Low-income · 224 tested in English, 228 in math | ||
| English | 8% | −2230% |
| Math | 0% | −1010% |
| Hispanic or Latino · 222 tested in English, 226 in math | ||
| English | 9% | −2130% |
| Math | 0% | −99% |
| English learners · 44 tested in English, 45 in math | ||
| English | 2% | −35% |
| Math | 2% | −35% |
| Students with disabilities · 31 tested in English, 30 in math | ||
| English | 0% | −1212% |
| Math | 0% | −44% |
Each gap is to the same group, grades and subject at other alternative high schools. None is green: no group that is behind at California’s alternative high schools does 10 or more points better here than the same group at California’s alternative high schools.
Black or African American students: fewer than 30 tested here. No published rate here for Asian, Filipino, White, American Indian or Alaska Native, Pacific Islander, homeless and military-family students, students of two or more races and foster youth. That can reflect privacy rules or small numbers; it isn’t evidence of a gap. This table covers groups by income, race or ethnicity, language and disability; girls and boys aren’t split out.
Low-income and Hispanic or Latino students did worse than the same groups at California’s alternative high schools. Students with disabilities did worse than the same group at California’s alternative high schools in English.
At Kern Workforce 2000 Academy in Bakersfield, 8.0% of low-income students (CDE’s “socioeconomically disadvantaged” group) met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025 for reported grade 11, compared to 47.2% district-wide for those same grades and 48.7% statewide for those same grades. Kern Workforce 2000 Academy’s rate for low-income students trails its district average by 39.1 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: low-income students (0.4% met or exceeded the Math standard); Hispanic students (9.5% met or exceeded the ELA standard). The widest gap between a student group’s met-or-exceeded rate and the school-wide rate is 9.1 percentage points: students with disabilities in ELA. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 225 ELA grade test records.
Who goes here
Incomplete category detail
| Eligible enrollment, 2024–25 | Here |
|---|---|
| Hispanic or Latino | 88% |
| Black or African American | 6% |
| White | 5% |
| Asian | — |
| Filipino | — |
| Two or more races | — |
| American Indian or Alaska Native | — |
| Pacific Islander | — |
| Not reported | — |
Data source: California Department of Education chronic-absence file, 2024–25. Shares use eligible enrollment; unavailable categories are shown as a dash.
About 9 in 10 students qualified for free or reduced-price meals in 2024–25 (89%, 437 of 491). California: 63%.
Teachers, 2024–25
CDE SARC report 2024–25. The published rate is 79.83%: 30 properly credentialed teaching-position FTE out of 37.6 total position FTE. This measures positions, not individual teachers.
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Kern Workforce 2000 Academy is ranked #46 of California alternative high schools.
| Factor | School | State | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Graduation rate | 73.5% | 92.9% | 25% |
| Exceeded standard | 0.2% | 20.3% | 22% |
| CCI overall Prepared | 2.0% | 51.7% | 20% |
| Met or exceeded | 4.7% | 43.8% | 18% |
| Chronic absenteeism | 35.8% | 22.7% | 5% |
| Suspension rate | 4.7% | 3.3% | 5% |
Any absence or suspension percentage shown here is a SchoolScope model-adjusted scoring input, not a raw CDE-reported school rate. The State column averages these inputs across scored comprehensive California schools at this level.
These 2024–25 results use Standard Met (Level 3) and Standard Exceeded (Level 4); “Met or exceeded” combines both. California's 2025–26 student reports rename those levels Proficient and Advanced. The later results are not included in this 2024–25 record. California's level descriptions.
ELA · 2024–25 results by grade
| ELA | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 11 | 253 | 0% | 9% | 25% | 66% | 9% | −40 |
California comparison: each reporting school contributes equally; schools with fewer than 15 tested in this grade and subject are excluded.
State grade 11 ELA equal-school mean: 48.6%; n=2080 reporting schools
Math · 2024–25 results by grade
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 11 | 258 | 0% | 0% | 5% | 95% | 0% | −23 |
California comparison: each reporting school contributes equally; schools with fewer than 15 tested in this grade and subject are excluded.
State grade 11 Math equal-school mean: 23.7%; n=2074 reporting schools
We show the grade rows CDE publishes for this school. A missing grade or dash can mean the school does not serve that grade, that we hold no valid result for it, or that the tested group was too small to report. It does not mean zero.
Earlier years · grade and subject
| Year · grade · subject | Students with scores | Met+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 · Grade 11 · ELA | 222 | 9.5% |
| 2024 · Grade 11 · Math | 220 | 0.0% |
| 2023 · Grade 11 · ELA | 361 | 11.9% |
| 2023 · Grade 11 · Math | 355 | 0.3% |
| 2022 · Grade 11 · ELA | 257 | 7.8% |
| 2022 · Grade 11 · Math | 247 | 0.0% |
| 2019 · Grade 11 · ELA | 306 | 4.6% |
| 2019 · Grade 11 · Math | 301 | 0.0% |
Current 2024–25 grade results appear above. These earlier school-level rows are stored CDE records; original historical files still need independent re-verification. “Students with scores” is the rate denominator for that grade, subject and year. A missing result is not zero or a matched cohort.
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Schoolwide | 154 | 0% | 5% | 77% | 18% |
CAST is tested in grades 5 and 8, then once in grade 10, 11, or 12. This row is the school's all-student aggregate. Not part of the Scope Score.
| Subgroup · ELA | Tested | MET+ | vs district | vs CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 225 | 8.0% | −39 | −41 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 223 | 9.5% | −39 | −39 |
| English Learners | 44 | 2.3% | −5 | −6 |
nearest by distance
| School | Dist | Scope · percentile · band | EXC | MET+ | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kern Workforce 2000 Academy ← | — | 2153rd percentile · Solid · within class · 2025 | 0.2% | 4.7% | 4.7% |
| West High | 0.3 mi | 4110th percentile · Needs Support · statewide · 2025 | 9.2% | 33.2% | 8.0% |
| California average | — | 57School average · no percentile | 20.3% | 43.8% | 3.3% |
| Tierra Del Sol Continuation Highscored within its class, not statewide | 1.2 mi | 1925th percentile · Developing · within class · 2025 | 0.4% | 2.8% | 8.0% |
| Vista West Continuation Highscored within its class, not statewide | 2.9 mi | 2136th percentile · Developing · within class · 2025 | 1.8% | 7.7% | 15.0% |
Susp = SchoolScope model-adjusted suspension input, not the raw CDE-reported school rate.
CDE 2024–25 SARC, Teacher Preparation and Placement table; measured school year 2021–22. Share of reported school teaching-position full-time equivalents assigned to properly assigned intern credential holders. A reported 0.0% is shown; unavailable rates are omitted. This is a position share, not a count of current teachers or of emergency permits.
CDE 2024–25 Form J-90, Table 1. These are district-wide reported amounts, not this school's staff salaries. Teacher figures are the district minimum and maximum schedule; principal figures are separate average annual salaries by school level, not career steps. Superintendent salary is the district's reported annual amount. Zero-valued source salary fields are treated as unavailable and omitted.
2025 Scope Score · CDE overall Prepared model · CCI 2025: 21/100. Earlier scores are shown under the legacy model. The score models differ, so their results do not form one trend.
| Measure | Source record |
|---|---|
| This school · CCI overall Prepared | CDE College/Career Indicator · CCI source year 2025 · student group ALL (all students) · all students in the current four-year graduation cohort, plus only Prepared fifth-year graduates from the prior cohort. Overall CCI Prepared rate 2.0% · numerator 4 students classified Prepared · denominator 200 CCI students. |
| California · CCI overall Prepared | CDE statewide CCI cohort · CCI source year 2025 · student group ALL (all students) · overall Prepared rate 51.7% · numerator 257,567 students classified Prepared · denominator 497,814 CCI students. |
CDE's overall Prepared rate is this version's 20% high-school college-readiness score factor. The school rate is 4 of 200 CCI students, not the AP-only pathway or A–G completion rate. The California figure is CDE's statewide CCI student cohort, not an average of SchoolScope's comparable high schools or the SchoolScope school-rank pool.
| Assessment year | Scope Score | Percentile | Rank | Comparison group |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 20/100 | 60 | #44 | California alternative high schools · 110 schools |
| 2022 | 20/100 | 53 | #49 | California alternative high schools · 106 schools |
| 2023 | 22/100 | 54 | #49 | California alternative high schools · 108 schools |
| 2024 | 23/100 | 65 | #38 | California alternative high schools · 111 schools |
These are retrospective calculations using earlier test results and current school levels and comparison classes. Each year's rank and percentile use that year's measured school group. They do not form a trend across different score models.
The legacy high-school model uses 2024–25 graduation records. Its readiness input uses the 2025 AP pathway share among Prepared students when available; otherwise it uses 2024–25 A-G completion. A reported zero remains zero. These inputs do not describe graduation or readiness in the earlier assessment years. The newer 2025 model instead uses CDE's overall Prepared rate.
Historical ELPAC inputs are absent from these calculations. Missing factor weights are redistributed proportionally among available factors. Adjusted climate values are SchoolScope scoring inputs, distinct from the state’s reported rates.
CDE reported all-students (TA) school rates for 2024 and 2025; the change is 2025 minus 2024 in percentage points.
| Year-over-year school rates |
|---|
| Chronic absenteeism2024 · 20.4% → 2025 · 36.0% · +15.6pp |
| Suspension rate2024 · 4.2% → 2025 · 4.8% · +0.6pp |
ELA and Math by test year · all tested grades
| Year · subject | Students with scores | Exc | Met+ |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 · ELA | 253 | 0.4% | 9.1% |
| 2025 · Math | 258 | 0.0% | 0.4% |
| 2024 · ELA | 222 | 1.8% | 9.5% |
| 2024 · Math | 220 | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| 2023 · ELA | 361 | 1.1% | 11.9% |
| 2023 · Math | 355 | 0.0% | 0.3% |
| 2022 · ELA | 257 | 0.8% | 7.8% |
| 2022 · Math | 247 | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| 2019 · ELA | 306 | 0.3% | 4.6% |
| 2019 · Math | 301 | 0.0% | 0.0% |
Each year names its school year end (2025 = 2024–25). “Students with scores” is the subject-specific rate denominator; ELA and Math counts must not be added. Earlier years are stored SchoolScope CDE records whose original files still need independent re-verification; a dash is unavailable, not zero.
These source periods and populations differ: graduation uses an adjusted cohort, while A-G completion and college-going use separately reported groups. The rates are shown individually, without a shared performance tier.
| Year | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 0.2% | 2.3% | 30.4% | 9.9% |
| 2022 | 0.4% | 3.9% | 44.7% | 7.4% |
| 2023 | 0.6% | 6.1% | 34.8% | 6.1% |
| 2024 | 0.9% | 4.7% | 21.1% | 4.2% |
| 2025 | 0.2% | 4.7% | 35.8% | 4.7% |
The Absent and Susp columns are SchoolScope model-adjusted scoring inputs, rather than raw CDE-reported school rates.
| Group | 2018–19 | 2024–25 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 36.3% | 39.2% | +2.9pp |
| Male | 27.3% | 33.7% | +6.4pp |
| Black/African American | 32.4% | 29.3% | -3.1pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 30.9% | 35.8% | +4.9pp |
| White | 21.4% | 46.9% | +25.5pp |
| English Learners | 32.5% | 33.3% | +0.8pp |
| Homeless | 50.0% | 50.0% | +0.0pp |
| Military-Connected | 26.3% | 29.4% | +3.1pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 32.6% | 37.8% | +5.2pp |
| All Students | 30.6% | 36.0% | +5.4pp |
| Students with Disabilities | — | 23.8% | — |
Separate dots mark the reported school years; no line or intervening-year result is implied. Source: CDE school-level chronic absenteeism by student group.
| Measure | This school |
|---|---|
| AP offered | not offered |
| AP course count | not reported |
| AP enrollment | not reported |
| IB participation | not offered |
| Dual enrollment | offered · 17 enrolled |
| Algebra I in grade 8 | not reported |
| Calculus sections | 0 |
| Physics sections | 0 |
| Chemistry sections | 0 |
| Total enrollment (CRDC) | 538 |
Shown, never scored — no entry to any composite. NULL/reserve codes render "not reported," never a fabricated zero. The equity block above this table (§4) is the per-subgroup view of this same collection.
| Destination | Completers | % (derived) |
|---|---|---|
| University of California | 0 | 0.0% |
| California State University | 0 | 0.0% |
| California community college | 17 | 11.2% |
| In-state private | 11 | 7.2% |
| Out-of-state, 4-year | 0 | 0.0% |
| Out-of-state, 2-year | 1 | 0.7% |
| Not enrolled | 123 | 80.9% |
152 completers, class of 2023 · state-reported college-going rate 19% · % column is computed by SchoolScope (count ÷ completers), not a CDE-native rate · an unavailable or suppressed cell is marked as missing; a reported zero remains distinct · source: CDE 12-mo CGR, 2023 cohort (the newest published), National Student Clearinghouse match — a different, older vintage than the fall 2025 UC admissions rows in tables 06-07 above.
NCES F-33 · FY 2020–21 (2021) · fall district membership: 42,370 pupils
NCES F-33 · FY 2020–21 (2021) · SchoolScope’s unweighted mean across 818 selected California district finance records
CDE ESSA · school-attributed per-pupil record · FY 2024–25 (2025) · source denominator: 491
CDE ESSA · central expenditures attributed to this school · FY 2024–25 (2025) · source denominator: 491
CDE SACS Current Expense of Education · district fiscal year ending 2025 · average daily attendance denominator
These figures are not directly comparable: school ESSA attributed spending and NCES district current expense use different measures and populations. Their fiscal years are labeled above.
SchoolScope starts with its selected California finance records, not every NCES California district. For FY 2020–21, it calculates an unweighted mean of NCES F-33 current expense per pupil. District records contribute once, regardless of enrollment. The calculation keeps records with positive per-pupil current expense, enrollment over 100, CCD agency type 1, and a recorded district name; it excludes names ending in County Office of Education, Department of Education, or Superintendent of Schools. This is a SchoolScope calculation, not a state-published spending average.
SchoolScope groups district-level CDE SACS UserGL actuals from Fund 01, using operating objects 1000–5999 and excluding retiree benefits, food and community services, facilities acquisition, other outgo, and nonagency goals. These shares use that filtered total; they do not exactly break down CDE's official current expense per ADA above. The school-level ESSA figure uses a separate source.
Source: NCES F-33 · Full district breakdown →
| Measure | Estimate |
|---|---|
| Median household income | $63,544 |
| Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+) | 19.76% |
| ZCTA population | 63,217 |
| Median age | 32.0 years |
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 2020–2024 5-year estimates. Median household income covers the past 12 months and is reported in 2024 inflation-adjusted dollars. Bachelor's degree or higher uses adults age 25 and over as its population. A dash is unavailable, not zero; a reported zero remains zero. ZIP/ZCTA context does not establish the school's attendance area or describe its enrolled students. These figures are not part of the Scope Score.
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EXC = exceeded standard · MET+ = met or exceeded the standard · Source: CA Dept. of Education · CAASPP 2024–25 · n=1,500 high schools · Vintages: climate subgroups 2019+2025 · district finance per its label · ACS 2024 · CRDC 2020-21 historical snapshot · CDE 12-mo CGR 2023 cohort, National Student Clearinghouse match · Data updated 2026-09-27
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