Leona Connected High School

As a modestly sized four-year high school in CASA GRANDE, Arizona, Leona Connected High School works with 266 students from grades 9 through 12, part of Kaizen Education Foundation dba Mission Heights Pr (90548). That puts it 58% leaner than the typical public school in Arizona, which averages around 631 students.

Kaizen Education Foundation dba Mission Heights Pr (90548) runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 817 students. Leona Connected High School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Leona Connected High School logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 69% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school records 12% White, 11% Black, 5% Native American, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Maricopa County as a whole is about 31% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 38.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 20.2:1 average.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Maricopa County put median household income runs about $89,300, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Maricopa County's 1352 public schools (combined enrollment of about 725,139 students), Leona Connected High School is one campus in the mix.

Madison Rose Lane School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Leona Connected High School.

Leona Connected High School operates from a city-core location. As a public charter, Leona Connected High School runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school. Leona Connected High School delivers learning online rather than in a traditional classroom setting.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.