Harvest Ridge Cooperative Charter

As an intimate K-5 school in Newcastle, California, Harvest Ridge Cooperative Charter serves 349 students from grades K through 8, one of the schools within Harvest Ridge Cooperative Charter District. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 25% below typical.

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

On demographics, Harvest Ridge Cooperative Charter logs that White students make up the majority at 79%. Other groups include 14% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 69%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.7:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 12% of students at Harvest Ridge Cooperative Charter qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is below Placer County's rate of about 33%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Placer County indicate median household income runs about $115,998, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Placer County runs 123 public schools (combined enrollment of about 70,590 students), of which Harvest Ridge Cooperative Charter is one.

Nearest neighbor: Newcastle Charter, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Harvest Ridge Cooperative Charter.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area. Harvest Ridge Cooperative Charter is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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