San Diego Mission Academy

As a micro-enrollment secondary school in San Diego, California, San Diego Mission Academy enrolls 289 students from grades 6 through 12, part of San Diego Mission Academy District. By comparison, California's public schools average about 838 students each, so San Diego Mission Academy sits 66% below that benchmark.

San Diego Mission Academy is a school of San Diego Mission Academy District, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

On the student-mix side, San Diego Mission Academy reports that the most-represented group is Hispanic (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder looks like 26% White, 14% multiracial, 7% Black, 2% Asian. By comparison, San Diego County as a whole is about 35% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.2:1, putting San Diego Mission Academy higher than the state norm the norm. About 67% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above San Diego County's rate of about 54%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for San Diego County indicate the typical household earns roughly $106,268 per year, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across San Diego County's 766 public schools (combined enrollment of about 467,437 students), San Diego Mission Academy is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Innovations Academy, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The campus sits in a city-core setting. San Diego Mission Academy operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools. San Diego Mission Academy delivers learning online rather than in a traditional classroom setting.

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