Heritage Peak Charter

As a substantial all-grades campus in Rio Linda, California, Heritage Peak Charter educates 1,181 students from grades K through 12, overseen by Heritage Peak Charter District. Compared to the state average of about 602 students per school, that is 96% bigger than typical.

Heritage Peak Charter District is the operating authority for Heritage Peak Charter, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

Looking at the student body, Heritage Peak Charter logs that White students make up the majority at 57%. Other groups include 25% Hispanic, 9% Asian, 4% Black. By comparison, Sacramento County as a whole is about 45% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 22.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.6:1, putting Heritage Peak Charter higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 55% of students at Heritage Peak Charter qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Sacramento County put median household earnings sit near $92,175, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Sacramento County's 387 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,342 students), Heritage Peak Charter is one campus in the mix.

Orchard Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Heritage Peak Charter.

Heritage Peak Charter operates from an outer-ring location. Heritage Peak 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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