Rocketship Alma Academy

Rocketship Alma Academy, a mid-sized elementary school, is located in San Jose, California. The school has 532 students in 2024-25 across kindergarten through 5.

Rocketship Alma Academy is part of Rocketship Alma Academy District.

At Rocketship Alma Academy, 85% of students are Hispanic. Smaller groups are 9% Black and 4% Asian. For comparison, the population of Santa Clara County is roughly 25% Hispanic. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Rocketship Alma Academy scores 27%.

Rocketship Alma Academy lists 16.5 full-time-equivalent teachers; that is about 32.2 students per teacher. The school's 32.2:1 compares with an average of 22.3:1 for elementary schools in California. Free or reduced-price lunch covers 80% of the student body. That rate is above the 37% average among public schools in Santa Clara County.

The county, Santa Clara County, is where the school is located. Median household income comes to about $164,281, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 57% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 4%. The county has 412 public schools and about 230,059 students.

Downtown College Preparatory is about 0.3 miles from Rocketship Alma Academy, the shortest distance to any other public school. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles.

The school's setting, by NCES definition, is City: Large: inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more. Rocketship Alma Academy operates as a charter school, which is publicly funded and run under a charter.

From 514 students in 2020-21, enrollment increased to 532 by 2024-25. The number of students per teacher increased from 30.2 to 32.2 over 4 years.

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