Ingenuity Charter

As a micro-enrollment four-year high school in San Diego, California, Ingenuity Charter serves 188 students from grades 6 through 12, one of the schools within Ingenuity Charter District. That puts it 78% smaller than the typical public school in California, which averages around 838 students.

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

Looking at the student body, Ingenuity Charter logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 64%. Other groups include 14% Black, 6% White, 6% Asian, 6% multiracial. By comparison, San Diego County as a whole is about 35% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. An estimated 87% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above San Diego County's rate of about 54%.

In the broader community, census data for San Diego County shows median household income runs about $106,268, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, San Diego County runs 766 public schools (combined enrollment of about 467,437 students), of which Ingenuity Charter is one.

The O'Farrell Charter is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area. Ingenuity Charter is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model. As a virtual school, attendance and instruction happen remotely rather than in person.

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