Deer Valley High School - Antioch, California/CA

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Deer Valley High School

4700 Lone Tree Way, Antioch, CA, 94509-1145 -

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Definition of Terms

Deer Valley High School

School Level

High school

Grades Offered

Grades 9 - 12

County

Contra Costa County, CA

Students & Faculty

Total Students

3351 students

% Male / % Female

47% / 53%

Total Classroom Teachers

133 teachers

Students by Grade

Grade 9 - 883 students

Grade 10 - 966 students

Grade 11 - 783 students

Grade 12 - 719 students

This School

(CA) School Average

Teacher : Student Ratio

1:25

1:20

Students by Ethnicity

This School

(CA) School Average

% American Indian	1%	n/a
% Asian	18%	11%
% Hispanic	23%	50%
% Black	25%	7%
% White	28%	28%
% Unknown	5 %	4%

Additional Student Information

This School

(CA) School Average

% Eligible for Free Lunch

15%

44%

% Eligible for Reduced Lunch

10%

% Migrant Students Enrolled

n/a

(CA) Statewide Testing Performance

School Statewide Performance

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School District Name

Antioch Unified School District

This School's Agency

(CA) District Average

Number of Schools Managed	24	4
Number of Students Managed	22,362 students	1,760 students
District Total Revenue	$147,059,000	$14,612,000
District Expenditure	$137,996,000	$15,326,000
District Revenue / Student	$6,576	$7,880
District Expenditure / Student	$6,171	$7,807
District Graduation Rates	n/a	n/a

Deer Valley High School in Antioch, California is a suburban school serving southeast Antioch. Antioch is located in Contra Costa County, California. It has been in operation since 1996. Over 3300 students attend the school, which is divided into four schools-within-a-school, called houses. Each house has its own vice-principal, secretary, and attendance clerk. In addition certain elective classes such as foreign language and arts are housed in separate parts of the campus. Deer Valley also uses the teaming concept, where groups of students share the same English, Math, Science, and History teacher, depending on grade level. The school website does not elaborate as to how this accommodates for AP classes. Also, the school does not say whether students more advanced in one particular subject may take that subject outside of their team.
Athletics: In 2002 the girls cross country team won the North Coast Section Championship, and became the first cross country team at Deer Valley to go to the CIF State Championship meet. They again went to the State championship in 2003. In 2005, the varsity boys cross country team became the first boys cross country team at Deer Valley to go to the CIF State Championship meet, after finishing second at the North Coast Section championship.
Interdisciplinary teams: "DVHS interdisciplinary teams are used at the 9th , 10th , and 11th grades[sic] level. The team concept utilizes the smaller school within a school organization, which, among other advantages, allow for common planning time for teachers.
Usually each interdisciplinary team includes teachers from each discipline. The teachers have a common planning/conference time when the students are in physical education classes or elective classes. The teams provide a sense of identity and a family-like atmosphere for the students.
Deer Valley also sponsors a number of academically oriented academies such as Business Technology and the ESPACE academy (Earth, Space, Astronomy Center for Education). They have one of the few planetariums contained on a high school campus in the state of California. Students from DVHS have used space probes to investigate a number of questions for school projects, most notably the Spitzer Space Telescope and the Mars Global Surveyor.
Assessment Results: Deer Valley's California State assessment scores have consistently hovered around 700 on a scale where the target desirable passing score is 800. It ranks in the 9th decile of schools with similar demographics and has been ranked from 6th to 9th decile in overall scores compared to all schools in the state.
Notable alumni: Kevin Pereira, host of the G4 television show "Attack of the Show."
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About This Zip Code (94509)

School Zip (94509)

(CA) State Average

Population (Approximate)

90,879 people

33,115,272 people

% (age 25+) w/College Degree

27%

32%

Population Average Age

32 years old

32 years old

Average Household size

3.1 persons

2.9 persons

Median Household Income

$60,375

$48,909

Avg. # of Rooms in Household

5.9 rooms

4.8 rooms

Median Age of Housing Structure

27 years old

39 years old

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% Owning / % Renting

71% / 29%

58% / 42%

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