Motivated Youth Academy

Motivated Youth Academy is a school serving multiple grade levels in Escondido, California, and it is part of Motivated Youth Academy District. Students in kindergarten through 12 make up the school's enrollment of 251 students. By comparison, combined schools in California enroll about 602 students on average.

The local education agency for Motivated Youth Academy is Motivated Youth Academy District.

On staff are 14 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 17.9:1. The 18.6:1 average for combined schools in California is close to this figure. Motivated Youth Academy has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 78%. Public schools in San Diego County average 54%.

The school's county is San Diego County. According to Census Bureau estimates, the median household earns about $106,268 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 43% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 7%. Motivated Youth Academy shares San Diego County with 765 other public schools.

Limitless Learning Academy is about 0.4 miles from Motivated Youth Academy, the shortest distance to any other public school. The five-mile area around Motivated Youth Academy holds at least 8 other public schools.

Federal data place Motivated Youth Academy in the Suburb: Large locale, which means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more. This is a charter school, which is a tuition-free public school operating under a charter. Motivated Youth Academy carries a virtual school designation in NCES data.

Federal records list enrollment at Motivated Youth Academy as 167 in 2020-21 and 251 in 2024-25. A change that size can reflect a shift in the grades the school serves as well as a change in students. The number of students per teacher dropped from 27.8 to 17.9 over 4 years.

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