Charter Home School Academy

Located at 211 West Tulare Ave., in Visalia, California, Charter Home School Academy is a tight-knit primary school that hosts 240 students (grades K through 8), one of the schools within Visalia Unified. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 48% leaner than typical.

Visalia Unified comprises 41 schools with combined enrollment of 28,725 students; Charter Home School Academy is among them.

On the student-mix side, Charter Home School Academy logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 73%; the rest breaks down as 15% White, 8% multiracial, 3% Asian.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Charter Home School Academy lists 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Charter Home School Academy tighter than the state norm the norm. About 71% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Charter Home School Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.0%, the actual is 28.5%, a residual of -8.5 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Tulare County indicate the typical household earns roughly $71,300 per year, 17% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. Across Tulare County's 196 public schools (combined enrollment of about 101,494 students), Charter Home School Academy is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Mt. Whitney High, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Charter Home School Academy. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Charter Home School Academy ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 32.2%.

Charter Home School Academy operates from a metropolitan location. As a public charter, Charter Home School Academy runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Charter Home School Academy has ticked up 145%, going from 98 students in 2018 to 240 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment increased from 57% to 73% over that span.

On this page, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.