Carter G. Woodson Public Charter

Carter G. Woodson Public Charter is a tight-knit secondary school in Fresno, California, one of the schools within Carter G. Woodson Public Charter District. The school teaches 364 students in grades 7 through 12. That puts it 57% leaner than the typical public school in California, which averages around 838 students.

Carter G. Woodson Public Charter is a school of Carter G. Woodson Public Charter District, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

On demographics, Carter G. Woodson Public Charter shows that 64% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder consists of 18% Black, 11% White, 4% Asian, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 55% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Carter G. Woodson Public Charter records 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. Roughly 94% of students at Carter G. Woodson Public Charter qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Fresno County's rate of about 75%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Fresno County indicate median household income runs about $74,201, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. Across Fresno County's 368 public schools (combined enrollment of about 206,072 students), Carter G. Woodson Public Charter is one campus in the mix.

Birney Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area. Carter G. Woodson Public Charter is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

On the community side, the feed for Carter G. Woodson Public Charter typically covers pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.