Urban Discovery Academy Charter

Urban Discovery Academy Charter is one of the cozy K-12 campuss in San Diego, California, overseen by Urban Discovery Academy Charter District, with 330 students on its rolls from grades K through 12. By comparison, California's public schools average about 602 students each, so Urban Discovery Academy Charter sits 45% smaller than that benchmark.

Urban Discovery Academy Charter District is the operating authority for Urban Discovery Academy Charter, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Urban Discovery Academy Charter logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 57%; the rest comes out to 16% White, 14% Black, 10% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 35%.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.9:1. The state averages about 18.6:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 64% of students at Urban Discovery Academy Charter qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, San Diego County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (San Diego County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $106,268 per year, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Urban Discovery Academy Charter is one of 766 public schools in San Diego County (combined enrollment of about 467,437 students).

The closest other public school is East Village Middle College High, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Urban Discovery Academy Charter.

The school occupies an inner-city site. Urban Discovery Academy Charter is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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