Banta Charter

Banta Charter is an one-room-style elementary campus in Tracy, California, one of the schools within Banta Charter District. The school educates 73 students in grades K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 84% smaller than the state mean of about 465.

Banta Charter District is the operating authority for Banta Charter, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

Looking at the student body, Banta Charter shows that 84% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 16% White. By comparison, San Joaquin County as a whole is about 43% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 3 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 81% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, San Joaquin County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for San Joaquin County indicate the typical household earns roughly $92,179 per year, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across San Joaquin County's 251 public schools (combined enrollment of about 153,026 students), Banta Charter is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Banta Elementary, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Banta Charter.

The campus sits in an outlying setting. Banta Charter operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

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