Grow Academy Shafter

Grow Academy Shafter, a micro-enrollment primary school in Shafter, California, part of Grow Academy Shafter District, instructs 80 students, covering grades K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 83% leaner than typical.

Grow Academy Shafter sits inside Grow Academy Shafter District, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

On demographics, Grow Academy Shafter reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (85%). Beyond that, the school lists 15% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 57%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 73% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Kern County indicate median household income runs about $70,210, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. In all, Kern County runs 279 public schools (combined enrollment of about 197,431 students), of which Grow Academy Shafter is one.

The closest other public school is Golden Oak Elementary, roughly 0.6 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around Grow Academy Shafter.

The school occupies a town-center site. Grow Academy Shafter is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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