City Arts & Leadership Academy

Set in San Francisco, California, City Arts & Leadership Academy is an intimate high school, operated by City Arts & Leadership Academy District. It works with 397 students across grades 9 through 12. That puts it 53% leaner than the typical public school in California, which averages around 838 students.

Operationally, City Arts & Leadership Academy answers to City Arts & Leadership Academy District, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

Looking at the student body, City Arts & Leadership Academy logs that 83% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder breaks down as 6% Black, 6% multiracial, 2% White. By comparison, San Francisco County as a whole is about 16% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, City Arts & Leadership Academy has 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. Roughly 53% of students at City Arts & Leadership Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Around the school, the surrounding county (San Francisco County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $140,970 per year, about 60% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across San Francisco County's 132 public schools (combined enrollment of about 56,505 students), City Arts & Leadership Academy is one campus in the mix.

Denman (James) Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a city-core setting. City Arts & Leadership Academy operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the City Arts & Leadership Academy community share and discuss sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.