Thomas Edison Charter Academy

Located at 3531 22nd St., in San Francisco, California, Thomas Edison Charter Academy is a middle-of-the-pack elementary-level community that caters to 574 students (grades K through 8), overseen by Thomas Edison Charter Academy District. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 23% larger than typical.

Thomas Edison Charter Academy is a school of Thomas Edison Charter Academy District, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

Looking at the student body, Thomas Edison Charter Academy logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 78% of enrollment. Other groups include 10% White, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 16% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 71% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, San Francisco County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for San Francisco County indicate the typical household earns roughly $140,970 per year, about 60% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Thomas Edison Charter Academy is one of 132 public schools in San Francisco County (combined enrollment of about 56,505 students).

Nearest neighbor: Buena Vista/ Horace Mann K-8, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

Thomas Edison Charter Academy operates from an urban location. Thomas Edison Charter Academy is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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