Hawking S.T.E.A.M. Charter

Hawking S.T.E.A.M. Charter is a large multi-level school in Chula Vista, California, one of the schools within Hawking S.T.E.A.M. Charter District. The school caters to 1,321 students in grades K through 12. That puts it 119% bigger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 602 students.

Hawking S.T.E.A.M. Charter is a school of Hawking S.T.E.A.M. Charter District, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

On demographics, Hawking S.T.E.A.M. Charter logs that 95% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 3% White. 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, On paper, Hawking S.T.E.A.M. Charter has 62 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.3:1. The state averages around 18.6:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 46% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

In the broader community, San Diego County reports that median household earnings sit near $106,268, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, San Diego County runs 766 public schools (combined enrollment of about 467,437 students), of which Hawking S.T.E.A.M. Charter is one.

Howard Gardner Community Charter is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Hawking S.T.E.A.M. Charter.

The campus sits in a city-core setting. As a public charter, Hawking S.T.E.A.M. Charter runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

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