Central Online Home is a small, alternative public virtual school serving grades K-12 in the Central Unified School District in Fresno, California. With 269 students, the school has a 2-star rating out of 5 from SchoolDigger, placing it in the bottom 40% of schools statewide.
Central Online Home faces some challenges common to alternative schools, such as higher dropout rates and lower test scores compared to the state. However, the school has seen a significant decrease in chronic absenteeism, from 64.6% in 2021-2022 to 9.2% in 2022-2023. Its 4-year graduation rate of 81.3% and 83.3% in the past two school years is higher than the 62.5% rate at the nearby Central Unified Alternative/Opportunity school, but lower than the 88.9% rate at Yosemite Valley Charter. Central Online Home's test scores are generally below the state and district averages across English Language Arts, Math, and Science.
Compared to nearby alternative and charter schools, Yosemite Valley Charter and Endeavor Charter generally outperform Central Online Home and the state on test scores, graduation rates, and other metrics. The other alternative and charter schools in the area, such as Big Picture Educational Academy and Ambassador Phillip V. Sanchez II Public Charter, tend to have lower performance than Central Online Home on many measures. The traditional public school, J.E. Young Academic Center, performs better than Central Online Home on some metrics like graduation rates and test scores, but worse on others like chronic absenteeism.
Students at Central Online Home are 59% Hispanic, 22% White, 6% Asian, 6% African American, 5% Two or more races, 2% American Indian.
In the 2023-24 school year, 157 students attended Central Online Home.
Central Unified
Central Online Home ranks 2008th of 2777 California alternative schools. SchoolDigger rates this school 1 star out of 5.