Valley Robotics Academy, Lodi CA

Original Research by School Decision on Valley Robotics Academy

Valley Robotics Academy is an alternative school serving kindergarten through twelfth grade in Lodi, with a small enrollment of about a few hundred students. The school sits in a mid-size Central Valley agricultural city with a wine-growing heritage, where housing values are moderate and the local economy is anchored by school districts, hospitals, food processing, and retail alongside agricultural and wine industries.

This is a school built explicitly around robotics and technical learning, though the data provided does not include details about specific program offerings, course sequencing, or how the robotics focus is woven into the curriculum across grade bands. As an alternative school, Valley Robotics Academy likely serves students seeking a different instructional approach or pathway than traditional public schools offer, but the profile does not specify whether it addresses particular student needs, follows project-based or experiential learning, or targets students with specific interests or challenges.

Academically, the school's state test results show broad proficiency challenges across the tested grades. In English language arts, students show somewhat stronger performance, with roughly two in five meeting or exceeding proficiency across the grade levels tested. Mathematics proficiency is considerably lower, ranging from very low in the early grades to closer to two in five by eighth grade. Science proficiency in the limited grades tested spans from modest to moderate. A parent should know that these results sit below the midpoint among the county's districts when overall proficiency across subjects and grades is compared, and the trend data available covers only one year, so no direction of change is visible. The school does not have a reported graduation rate in the data, and data on attendance and chronic absenteeism were not available.

The student body is diverse and economically mixed. More than half of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, reflecting a moderate level of economic need. The enrollment spans roughly equal numbers across the Asian, Hispanic, and white populations, with smaller representations of Black, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, and Native American students. Special education and English learner enrollment counts were not reported, so a parent may want to ask the school directly about how it serves students with disabilities and multilingual learners.

Because Valley Robotics Academy is an alternative school, it sits outside some of the comparison metrics typically applied to traditional district schools. The data does not cover graduation rates, chronic absenteeism, or other attendance measures that would help characterize school engagement and completion. A parent considering this school should reach out directly to understand the school's instructional model, how the robotics focus supports academic growth across the full K-12 range, what supports exist for students working below grade level, and how the school structures transitions from elementary to secondary.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 332%

School 32% · District 35% · ▼ 3 pts below district

▼ 11 pts below state median · ▲ 1 pts above county median

Grade 425%

School 25% · District 34% · ▼ 9 pts below district

▼ 12 pts below state median · ▼ 1 pts below county median

Grade 55%

School 5% · District 26% · ▼ 21 pts below district

▼ 25 pts below state median · ▼ 15 pts below county median

Grade 624%

School 24% · District 32% · ▼ 9 pts below district

▼ 6 pts below state median · ▲ 2 pts above county median

Grade 732%

School 32% · District 30% · ▲ 2 pts above district

▲ 2 pts above state median · ▲ 9 pts above county median

Grade 839%

School 39% · District 26% · ▲ 13 pts above district

▲ 11 pts above state median · ▲ 16 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 344%

School 44% · District 32% · ▲ 12 pts above district

▲ 3 pts above state median · ▲ 14 pts above county median

Grade 450%

School 50% · District 34% · ▲ 16 pts above district

▲ 8 pts above state median · ▲ 20 pts above county median

Grade 530%

School 30% · District 38% · ▼ 8 pts below district

▼ 15 pts below state median · ▼ 3 pts below county median

Grade 641%

School 41% · District 41%

▼ 3 pts below state median · ▲ 8 pts above county median

Grade 737%

School 37% · District 42% · ▼ 5 pts below district

▼ 9 pts below state median · even with county median

Grade 845%

School 45% · District 36% · ▲ 9 pts above district

▲ 1 pts above state median · ▲ 6 pts above county median

Science

Grade 515%

School 15% · District 22% · ▼ 7 pts below district

▼ 13 pts below state median · ▼ 3 pts below county median

Grade 839%

School 39% · District 21% · ▲ 18 pts above district

▲ 13 pts above state median · ▲ 19 pts above county median

This schoolLodi Unified, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 8Lower-income39%Higher-income54%15 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 8Lower-income28%Higher-income54%26 pp gap