Aspire Capitol Heights Academy

Aspire Capitol Heights Academy is an elementary school in Sacramento, California, according to federal school records. It is open to students in kindergarten through 8 and enrolls 222 students. Elementary schools in California have about 465 students on average; enrollment here is 52% lower.

Aspire Capitol Heights Academy is administered by Aspire Capitol Heights Academy District.

The student body at Aspire Capitol Heights Academy is 54% Black. The rest of enrollment is 28% Hispanic, 15% multiracial, and 3% Native American. Among all residents of Sacramento County, the Black share is about 9%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 61%.

Aspire Capitol Heights Academy lists 13.2 full-time-equivalent teachers; that is about 16.8 students per teacher. The school's 16.8:1 compares with an average of 22.3:1 for elementary schools in California. Free or reduced-price lunch covers 91% of the student body. That is 28 points above the 63% average for public schools in Sacramento County.

In Sacramento County, median household income comes to about $92,175, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 34% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 9%. The county's public schools total 387, with about 259,342 students.

Aspire Capitol Heights Academy is about 0.8 miles from Hiram W. Johnson High, its nearest public school. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools.

On the NCES locale scale, the school is City: Large. Aspire Capitol Heights Academy operates as a charter school, which is publicly funded and run under a charter.

By 2024-25, enrollment had risen to 222, from 186 in 2020-21. The ratio was 15.5:1 in 2020-21 and 16.8:1 in 2024-25.

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