Leadership Public Schools: Richmond

Set in Richmond, California, Leadership Public Schools: Richmond is a cozy secondary school, one of the schools within Leadership Public Schools: Richmond District. It caters to 546 students across grades 9 through 12. By comparison, California's public schools average about 838 students each, so Leadership Public Schools: Richmond sits 35% leaner than that benchmark.

Operationally, Leadership Public Schools: Richmond answers to Leadership Public Schools: Richmond District, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

Demographically, Leadership Public Schools: Richmond reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (96%); the rest is composed of 2% Black. By comparison, Contra Costa County as a whole is about 28% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Leadership Public Schools: Richmond has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. Roughly 65% of students at Leadership Public Schools: Richmond qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Contra Costa County's rate of about 45%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Contra Costa County) records that median household income runs about $127,229, about 45% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Contra Costa County runs 280 public schools (combined enrollment of about 167,423 students), of which Leadership Public Schools: Richmond is one.

Nearest neighbor: Greenwood Academy, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area. As a public charter, Leadership Public Schools: Richmond runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

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