Connecting Waters Charter School - Central Valley

Located at 2000 West Briggsmore Ave., in Modesto, California, Connecting Waters Charter School - Central Valley is a middle-of-the-pack all-grades campus that enrolls 776 students (grades K through 12), one of the schools within Connecting Waters Charter School - Central Valley District. By comparison, California's public schools average about 602 students each, so Connecting Waters Charter School - Central Valley sits 29% bigger than that benchmark.

Connecting Waters Charter School - Central Valley sits inside Connecting Waters Charter School - Central Valley District, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

On the student-mix side, Connecting Waters Charter School - Central Valley lists that the most-represented group is White (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school logs 33% Hispanic, 13% multiracial, 3% Asian.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.6:1, putting Connecting Waters Charter School - Central Valley tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 53% of students at Connecting Waters Charter School - Central Valley qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Stanislaus County runs at roughly 71%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Stanislaus County indicate the typical household earns roughly $81,468 per year, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Connecting Waters Charter School - Central Valley is one of 190 public schools in Stanislaus County (combined enrollment of about 106,477 students).

Nearest neighbor: Orchard Elementary, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies an inner-city site. As a public charter, Connecting Waters Charter School - Central Valley runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Inside the community feed, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.