Howard Gardner Community Charter

Howard Gardner Community Charter operates as an one-room-style K-5 school in Chula Vista, California, operated by Howard Gardner Community Charter District. Current enrollment sits at 178 students spanning grades K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 62% below typical.

Howard Gardner Community Charter sits inside Howard Gardner Community Charter District, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Howard Gardner Community Charter shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (97%). The remainder looks like 2% Black. By comparison, San Diego County as a whole is about 35% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.8:1 students per teacher. 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, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, San Diego County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (San Diego County) logs that median household income runs about $106,268, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across San Diego County's 766 public schools (combined enrollment of about 467,437 students), Howard Gardner Community Charter is one campus in the mix.

Feaster (Mae L.) Charter is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area. Howard Gardner Community Charter is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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