Dropout Rates In Cupertino Continue To Be A Non-Issue

This won't come as a surprise—rather the news of stellar graduation rates versus low drop-out rates for Cupertino students is partly why some parents chose the city as their residence. Still, it's nice to bask in the glow of success.

Students in Cupertino schools drop out of high school at lower rates and graduate at higher rates than their peers in neighboring districts, according to a data report released today through the Santa Clara County Office of Education. As a whole Fremont Union High School District, the district in which Cupertino residents attend high school, bests the county’s graduation rate by 13.9 percent.

Its district-wide dropout rate is also lower than the countywide average by 10.7 percent.

#of Students

Graduation Rate

Dropout Rate

County

20,697

78.3%

16.8%

FUHSD

10,285

92.2%

6.1%

The report examined four years worth of “cohort data,” or that of a group of students that entered high school together at the same time, for all grade nine through 12 districts in Santa Clara County.

"We need to do a better job of serving all of our students," said Dr. Charles Weis, Santa Clara County Superintendent of Schools. "When they drop out, we not only have failed them, we have failed the entire community."

In the , Asian students in the overall district make up 52.7 percent of the population, and Caucasians make up 27.3 percent.

Here’s what four of Fremont Union High School District schools look like:

High School

% Asian Grads

% Caucasian Grad

# Dropouts/1-Year Dropout Rate

Cupertino High School

95.4

95.7

34 / 2.0%

Homestead High School

98.6

94.3

61 / 2.7%

Lynbrook High School

99.0

94.3

7 / 0.4%

Monta Vista High School

98.0

97.2

12 / 0.5%

A more comprehensive breakdown of the data is available through the California Office of Education.

Anne Ward Ernst contributed to this article.