Phoenix Academy

Phoenix Academy is a sizable elementary school in Apple Valley, California, run under Apple Valley Unified. The school educates 1,213 students in grades K through 8. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Phoenix Academy sits 161% above that benchmark.

Within Apple Valley Unified, which oversees 14 schools and 13,613 students, Phoenix Academy is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Phoenix Academy logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 63%. The remainder is composed of 16% Black, 15% White, 5% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, Phoenix Academy lists 58 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.9:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 87% of students at Phoenix Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of San Bernardino County's rate of about 74%.

With demographic context factored in, Phoenix Academy falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 27.6%; this one comes in at 8.2%, -19.4 points off the demographic line.

Across the wider county, San Bernardino County reports that median household income runs about $85,478, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, San Bernardino County runs 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 393,648 students), of which Phoenix Academy is one.

Rancho Verde Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Phoenix Academy comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 23.2%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Over the past 7-year window. Phoenix Academy's enrollment has edged up 3% since 2018, when it stood at 1,182 (now 1,213). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 25.3:1 in 2018 to 20.9:1 today.

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