Aspire Vanguard College Preparatory Academy

Aspire Vanguard College Preparatory Academy is a modestly sized senior high in Modesto, California, one of the schools within Aspire Vanguard College Preparatory Academy District. The school hosts 617 students in grades 6 through 12. By comparison, California's public schools average about 838 students each, so Aspire Vanguard College Preparatory Academy sits 26% below that benchmark.

Aspire Vanguard College Preparatory Academy is a school of Aspire Vanguard College Preparatory Academy District, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

In terms of who attends, Aspire Vanguard College Preparatory Academy records that 80% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest comes out to 9% multiracial, 6% White, 3% Asian, 3% Black. By comparison, Stanislaus County as a whole is about 50% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.2:1, putting Aspire Vanguard College Preparatory Academy higher than the state norm the norm. About 77% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Stanislaus County shows median household earnings sit near $81,468, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Aspire Vanguard College Preparatory Academy is one of 190 public schools in Stanislaus County (combined enrollment of about 106,477 students).

Aspire University Charter is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Aspire Vanguard College Preparatory Academy.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area. As a public charter, Aspire Vanguard College Preparatory Academy runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

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