Palmdale Academy Charter

Set in Palmdale, California, Palmdale Academy Charter is a sprawling all-grades campus, operated by Palmdale Elementary. It hosts 989 students across grades K through 12. That puts it 64% larger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 602 students.

Palmdale Academy Charter is one of 29 schools operated by Palmdale Elementary, a district that works with 17,941 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Palmdale Academy Charter lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (81%). The remainder breaks down as 8% Black, 4% Native American, 3% White, 2% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.6:1, putting Palmdale Academy Charter higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 72% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, Palmdale Academy Charter performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.5%, the actual is 37.0%, a residual of +0.5 points.

In the area at large, census data for Los Angeles County shows median household earnings sit near $90,112, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Palmdale Academy Charter is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Oak Tree Community Day, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Palmdale Academy Charter comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 19.6%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting. Palmdale Academy Charter operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for Palmdale Academy Charter typically covers sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.