Matt Garcia Career and College Academy

Matt Garcia Career and College Academy operates as a rural-scale middle-grades school in Fairfield, California, one of the schools within Fairfield-Suisun Unified. Current enrollment sits at 204 students spanning grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 69% smaller than the state mean of about 659.

Fairfield-Suisun Unified runs 31 schools in total, collectively educating 20,505 students. Matt Garcia Career and College Academy is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Matt Garcia Career and College Academy records that 76% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school shows 8% Black, 6% multiracial, 5% White, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 30% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 21.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 20.7:1, putting Matt Garcia Career and College Academy higher than the state norm the norm. About 81% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Solano County runs at roughly 60%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Solano County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $100,401 per year, 29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Matt Garcia Career and College Academy is one of 110 public schools in Solano County (combined enrollment of about 60,765 students).

Nearest neighbor: Virtual Academy of Fairfield-Suisun, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Matt Garcia Career and College Academy.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

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