Porterville Military Academy

Porterville Military Academy is one of the very small four-year high schools in Porterville, California, one of the schools within Porterville Unified, with 255 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 70% below the state mean of about 838.

Porterville Military Academy is one of 22 schools operated by Porterville Unified, a district that teaches 13,893 students overall.

On demographics, Porterville Military Academy records that 76% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school records 17% White, 2% Asian, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 67% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. Around 90% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Tulare County (around 77%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Porterville Military Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.8%, the actual is 30.4%, a residual of +4.6 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Tulare County put median household earnings sit near $71,300, roughly 17% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. In all, Tulare County runs 196 public schools (combined enrollment of about 101,494 students), of which Porterville Military Academy is one.

Butterfield Charter is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Porterville Military Academy comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 29.6%.

Porterville Military Academy operates from a residential location. As a public charter, Porterville Military Academy runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

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