Attendance · School

Oasis High (Alternative)

2 empty seats, every school day.

On an average day in 2024–25, about 2 of Oasis High (Alternative)'s 74 students were not in school. The state pays Fallbrook Union High for students who attend, so those empty seats were worth about $27k to the district that year.

2students absent on an average day
$27ka year in attendance funding those seats would bring
1 in 10students chronically absent (9.7%)
97.7%attendance rate; California 92.9%

2024–25. Attendance funding goes to Fallbrook Union High, so the empty seats are valued at the district's dollars per student. Method and sources at the foot of the page.

Enrolled, but not in school

Each bar is everyone enrolled that year. The blue part is how many were in school on an average day; the red part is how many were not.

In school on an average dayAbsent on an average day
Numbers on the bars: students absent on an average day. 2019–20 has no attendance data (COVID); 2020–21 was mostly distance learning.

What the empty seats are worth

California pays a school's district for each student in school on an average day (its Average Daily Attendance, or ADA). Each empty seat, valued at that year's dollars per ADA:

Hatched years: the state froze or protected attendance funding during COVID, so absences that year did not cut the money. Since 2022–23 a district is paid on the best of this year, last year or a three-year average, which softens a fall but also delays a rise.

What better attendance would bring

Attendance rate is the share of enrolled students in school on an average day. Move the slider to a higher rate: how many more seats would be filled, and what would Fallbrook Union High receive?

Already above Fallbrook Union High average (91.3%), San Diego County average (93.3%), and California before COVID (94.6%).

1more students in school on an average day
3.6fewer days missed per student a year
$24kmore attendance funding a year, at 2024–25 rates

Oasis High (Alternative)'s attendance rate in 2024–25 was 97.7%. Each point is worth the same wherever it starts, since it is a point of every enrolled student's days.

Who is missing

Some students carry far more of it

Groups too small for the state to report are left out. Foster youth and homeless students point to the transport, housing and family pressures outside school. They are real, and no school model removes them on its own.

Why days are missed

Of the days Oasis High (Alternative) students missed in 2024–25, 0% were unexcused, 0% excused (illness, appointments), 100% were independent study work not completed, and 0% were suspensions. In 2018–19, before COVID, 0% were unexcused. Unexcused absence, where no reason is given, is the kind most likely to reflect a student choosing not to come.

Students who left

Oasis High (Alternative) has 39 fewer students than in 2014–15. Its district, Fallbrook Union High, has 18.0% fewer. Had Oasis High (Alternative) changed at the district's pace it would have about 93; it has 74. A school's enrollment also moves with boundaries, programs and new schools nearby, so read this as a prompt to ask why rather than as a verdict. About 19 more students than that trend have left, worth about $293k a year.

Oasis High (Alternative)Fallbrook Union High
Enrollment as a share of 2014–15's. Census-day counts.

How we worked it out

  • Absent on an average day = every day of school missed by every student that year, divided by 180 school days. In school = census-day enrollment minus that. For 2024–25 this gives about 72 students in school on an average day.
  • Attendance rate = students in school on an average day ÷ students enrolled.
  • Dollars per ADA = LCFF revenue that year divided by funded ADA, from CDE's LCFF Summary Data: Fallbrook Union High's, since the district is paid for its schools' students. It includes the extra grants for low-income students and English learners, so it is what an added student brings, not the statewide base rate.
  • Years. The absence collection began in 2017–18, and some districts' figures jump the next year in a way that looks like a change in recording, so this page starts in 2018–19. 2019–20 has no attendance data (COVID). 2020–21 was mostly distance learning, when attendance meant something different.
  • Chronically absent is CDE's measure: a student who missed at least 10% of the days they were enrolled.
  • Sources: California Department of Education: Absenteeism by Reason and Chronic Absenteeism (DataQuest downloads), Census Day Enrollment, LCFF Summary Data, CAASPP research files and Free or Reduced Price Meal files.
The numbers behind the first two charts
YearEnrolledDays missedAbsent, average dayIn schoolFunded ADA$ per ADAValue of empty seats
2018–1980587 377 — $10,870$35k
2020–2184274 282 — $11,576$18k
2021–2266275 264 — $12,644$19k
2022–2366230 165 — $14,501$19k
2023–2471308 269 — $15,875$27k
2024–2574304 272 — $16,089$27k