Gateway College and Career Academy

Set in Riverside, California, Gateway College and Career Academy is a low-enrollment senior high, one of the schools within Gateway College and Career Academy District. It educates 394 students across grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 53% smaller than the state mean of about 838.

Gateway College and Career Academy District is the operating authority for Gateway College and Career Academy, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

In terms of who attends, Gateway College and Career Academy logs that 76% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 11% White, 6% Black, 3% multiracial, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 51% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 49.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. Roughly 60% of students at Gateway College and Career Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Riverside County runs at roughly 74%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

In the surrounding community, census data for Riverside County shows the typical household earns roughly $93,074 per year, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Gateway College and Career Academy is one of 543 public schools in Riverside County (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students).

The closest other public school is Riverside Virtual, roughly 0.4 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

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

On allk12, the feed for Gateway College and Career Academy typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.