Jim Maples Academy

Jim Maples Academy is one of the moderately sized primary schools in Porterville, California, one of the schools within Burton Elementary, with 466 students on its rolls from grades K through 6.

Across the 7 schools in Burton Elementary (4,805 students total), Jim Maples Academy accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Jim Maples Academy records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (80%); the rest reads as 9% multiracial, 7% White, 2% Asian. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 67%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Jim Maples Academy higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 89% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Tulare County runs at roughly 77%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Jim Maples Academy tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 26.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 22.5%.

In the broader community, census data for Tulare County shows the typical household earns roughly $71,300 per year, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. Across Tulare County's 196 public schools (combined enrollment of about 101,494 students), Jim Maples Academy is one campus in the mix.

Burton Community Day is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Jim Maples Academy. On composite proficiency, Jim Maples Academy comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 33.8%.

Jim Maples Academy operates from a bedroom-community location.

Over the past 7-year window. Jim Maples Academy's enrollment has ticked up 3% since 2018, when it stood at 452 (now 466). White enrollment moved from 16% to 7% across the same window.

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