ACE Empower Academy

ACE Empower Academy, a rural-scale 6-8 campus in San Jose, California, run under ACE Empower Academy District, instructs 189 students, covering grades 5 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 71% smaller than the state mean of about 659.

Operationally, ACE Empower Academy answers to ACE Empower Academy District, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

Demographically, ACE Empower Academy lists that 97% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest reads as 3% Asian. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 25%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 23.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 20.7:1, putting ACE Empower Academy higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 93% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Santa Clara County runs at roughly 37%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

In the area at large, census data for Santa Clara County shows median household earnings sit near $164,281, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. ACE Empower Academy is one of 412 public schools in Santa Clara County (combined enrollment of about 230,059 students).

Cesar Chavez Early Learning Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a metropolitan site. As a public charter, ACE Empower Academy runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

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