Robert M. Pyles STEM Academy

Robert M. Pyles STEM Academy is an average-sized K-5 school in Stanton, California, operated by Magnolia Elementary. The school serves 601 students in grades K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 29% above the state mean of about 465.

Magnolia Elementary runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 4,765 students. Robert M. Pyles STEM Academy is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Robert M. Pyles STEM Academy shows that Hispanic students make up the majority at 74%; the rest looks like 15% Asian, 4% White, 3% multiracial, 2% Black. By comparison, Orange County as a whole is about 34% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 23.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Robert M. Pyles STEM Academy higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 87% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Orange County runs at roughly 55%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Robert M. Pyles STEM Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.8%, the actual is 36.3%, a residual of +8.5 points.

Around the school, Orange County reports that median household earnings sit near $116,289, about 44% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Robert M. Pyles STEM Academy is one of 649 public schools in Orange County (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students).

The closest other public school is Dale Junior High, roughly 0.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Robert M. Pyles STEM Academy comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 37.2%.

Robert M. Pyles STEM Academy operates from a commuter-belt location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Robert M. Pyles STEM Academy's enrollment has declined 20% since 2018, when it stood at 755 (now 601). Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked down from 83% to 74%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 25.2:1 in 2018 to 23.6:1 today.

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