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Honest take: what's the hardest part about being a student at Livermore High?
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Enrollment
1,827
High
DISTRICT 1,357 · STATE 838
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LIVERMORE VALLEY JOINT UNIFIED·NCES 062211002630
Livermore High
600 Maple St., Livermore, CA 94550 · (925) 606-4812 · Alameda County
GRADES 09–12HIGH13-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL1,827 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 35% of California public high schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C+Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public high schools
Student : Teacher
21.4:1
85 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.5:1 · STATE 18.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
23%
429 students
DISTRICT 22% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 485 | 27% |
| Grade 10 | 450 | 25% |
| Grade 11 | 458 | 25% |
| Grade 12 | 434 | 24% |
Student demographics
69%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 70% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
59.5%
CA avg 49.1% . -7.5pp since 2014
Math
34.6%
CA avg 37.7% . -14.4pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 59 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 35 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are down about 8 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 14 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 28.3% | 31.2% | 17.2% | 23.3% |
| Math | 15.8% | 18.8% | 22.7% | 42.7% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 59.5% | 34.6% |
| 2023-24 | 57.8% | 36.3% |
| 2022-23 | 61.8% | 34.9% |
| 2021-22 | 56.2% | 37.5% |
| 2020-21 | 74.2% | 59.7% |
| 2018-19 | 60.5% | 41.3% |
| 2017-18 | 64.7% | 47.9% |
| 2016-17 | 67.4% | 47.8% |
| 2015-16 | 65.0% | 45.0% |
| 2014-15 | 67.0% | 49.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of CA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
47.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
65.8%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-18.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 47% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 66% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Livermore High
Livermore High's state test result (47.0% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Livermore High this school | 1,827 | 23.5% | 47.0% |
| Thousand Oaks High Thousand Oaks | 1,703 | 23.8% | 49.2% |
| Great Oak High Temecula | 2,946 | 24.6% | 63.3% |
| Saugus High Saugus | 2,317 | 17.6% | 65.2% |
| Hillsdale High San Mateo | 1,585 | 25.2% | 54.0% |
| Clovis North High Fresno | 2,360 | 28.0% | 79.3% |
Matched among California high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Livermore High ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Alameda County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 47.0% | #371 of 1,052 | #17 of 35 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 34.6% | #349 of 1,056 ▼ 55 | #18 of 35 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 59.5% | #489 of 1,056 ▼ 18 | #18 of 35 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +0.2pp | #647 of 1,044 | #16 of 34 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,827 | #379 of 2,093 | #14 of 85 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 21.4:1 | #748 of 1,352 | #31 of 55 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 68.6% | #159 of 1,351 | #13 of 55 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 23.5% | #1,457 of 1,575 | #61 of 68 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -5.6% | #609 of 802 | #19 of 27 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
1,827
-33 (-2%) vs 2020
+25% since 1990-91, when it was 1,466
Student : Teacher
21.4:1
was 23.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 1,827 | 85.2 | 21.4:1 | 23% (429) |
| 2023-24 | 1,803 | 82.1 | 22.0:1 | 26% (475) |
| 2022-23 | 1,765 | 83.8 | 21.1:1 | 28% (494) |
| 2020-21 | 1,860 | 80 | 23.3:1 | 23% (428) |
| 2017-18 | 1,936 | 84.5 | 22.9:1 | 23% (450) |
| 2015-16 | 1,794 | 80 | 22.4:1 | 20% (365) |
| 2010-11 | 2,000 | N/A | N/A | 21% (420) |
| 2000-01 | 1,936 | 76 | 25.5:1 | 8% (154) |
| 1990-91 | 1,466 | 69 | 21.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Livermore High.
Since 2017-18: students down 6% (1,936 to 1,827); teachers up 1% (84.5 to 85.2).
About Livermore High
Livermore High, a large high school, is located in Livermore, California. A federal count lists 1,827 students at the school, in grades 9 through 12. An average school in this group (high schools in California) has about 838 students.
The 18 schools of Livermore Valley Joint Unified, including Livermore High, enroll 12,945 students.
Livermore High has no majority group; White students are the largest, at 40%. The remaining students are 35% Hispanic, 14% Asian, and 8% multiracial. Among people living in Alameda County, the White share is about 30%. Pick two students at random and there is a 69% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Federal data list 85.2 full-time-equivalent teachers at Livermore High in 2024-25, for a ratio of 21.4:1. That is higher than the 18.2:1 average for high schools in California. The lunch program counts 23% of students at Livermore High as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. For comparison, public schools in Alameda County average 49%.
Measured against California public high schools, Livermore High receives a C+. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
The BeatsExpectations model predicts 65.8% for Livermore High, given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The actual figure is 47.0%. The 18.7-point gap ranks in the bottom 10% of California schools.
Census estimates describe Alameda County this way: the median household income is $129,367, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 52% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 6%. In all, Alameda County has 394 public schools and roughly 210,511 students.
Nearby, Vineyard Alternative is about 0.3 miles away. Within five miles of Livermore High, there are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 54.6%; Livermore High's is 47.0%, ranking 5th of 7.
The NCES locale for Livermore High is City: Small, which covers schools inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Enrollment went from 1,860 in 2020-21 to 1,827 in 2024-25, a change of 33 students. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio fell from 23.3:1 to 21.4:1.
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Alameda County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,649,473
Census ACS
Median income
$129,367
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
52%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
394
210,511 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Livermore Valley Joint Unified
- Granada HighHigh · 2,156 students
- William Mendenhall MiddleMiddle · 876 students
- Junction K-8Elementary · 801 students
- Joe MichellElementary · 786 students
- Sunset ElementaryElementary · 759 students
- Emma C. Smith ElementaryElementary · 648 students
Other schools in Livermore
- Granada HighHigh · 2,156 students
- William Mendenhall MiddleMiddle · 876 students
- Junction K-8Elementary · 801 students
- Joe MichellElementary · 786 students
- Sunset ElementaryElementary · 759 students
- Emma C. Smith ElementaryElementary · 648 students
Nearby schools
- Vineyard Alternative0.3 mi · 92
- Del Valle Continuation High0.3 mi · 87
- Junction K-80.6 mi · 801
- East Avenue Middle0.6 mi · 581
- Lawrence Elementary0.8 mi · 494
- Jackson Avenue Elementary1.1 mi · 489
Frequently asked questions
About Livermore HighHow many students attend Livermore High?
Livermore High enrolls approximately 1,827 students in grades 09-12.
Is Livermore High an elementary, middle, or high school?
Livermore High is a high school covering grades 09-12.
How many students per teacher at Livermore High?
Approximately 21.4:1 students per teacher at Livermore High.
How diverse is Livermore High?
Livermore High reports a student body of 40% White, 35% Hispanic, 2% Black, 14% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Who oversees Livermore High?
Livermore High is overseen by Livermore Valley Joint Unified in Alameda County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.