Mountain Home Charter (Alternative)

Mountain Home Charter (Alternative) is one of the tight-knit K-5 schools in Oakhurst, California, one of the schools within Mountain Home Charter (Alternative) District, with 213 students on its rolls from grades K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 54% below the state mean of about 465.

Mountain Home Charter (Alternative) sits inside Mountain Home Charter (Alternative) District, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

On the student-mix side, Mountain Home Charter (Alternative) shows that the largest single group is White, at 69% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school records 18% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 38%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 26.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 43% of students at Mountain Home Charter (Alternative) qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Madera County's rate of about 81%.

In the surrounding community, Madera County reports that median household earnings sit near $76,627, about 18% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. In all, Madera County runs 81 public schools (combined enrollment of about 32,251 students), of which Mountain Home Charter (Alternative) is one.

The closest other public school is Glacier High School Charter, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 7 other public schools.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area. Mountain Home Charter (Alternative) is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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