Darnall Charter

As a mid-tier K-5 school in San Diego, California, Darnall Charter hosts 442 students from grades K through 8, overseen by Darnall Charter District.

Darnall Charter is a school of Darnall Charter District, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

Looking at the student body, Darnall Charter logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (81%); the rest reads as 9% Black, 6% Asian, 3% multiracial. By comparison, San Diego County as a whole is about 35% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 80% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against San Diego County (around 54%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

In the surrounding community, census data for San Diego County shows median household income runs about $106,268, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, San Diego County runs 766 public schools (combined enrollment of about 467,437 students), of which Darnall Charter is one.

Nearest neighbor: Carver Elementary, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area. Darnall 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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