Vallejo Charter

Vallejo Charter is an elementary campus of compact scale in Vallejo, California, operated by Vallejo City Unified, instructing 350 students in grades K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 25% smaller than typical.

Vallejo City Unified runs 20 schools in total, collectively educating 9,638 students. Vallejo Charter is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Vallejo Charter logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 50%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder is composed of 22% Black, 13% Asian, 8% White, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Solano County as a whole is about 30% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 72% of students at Vallejo Charter qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Solano County (around 60%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Vallejo Charter falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 36.4%; this one comes in at 17.4%, -19.1 points off the demographic line.

In the broader community, Solano County reports that median household income runs about $100,401, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Solano County runs 110 public schools (combined enrollment of about 60,765 students), of which Vallejo Charter is one.

Nearest neighbor: Cave Language Academy, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Vallejo Charter at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 23.0%.

The campus sits in an urban setting. As a public charter, Vallejo Charter runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Looking at the recent track record. Vallejo Charter's enrollment has shrank 28% since 2018, when it stood at 485 (now 350). Hispanic enrollment moved from 36% to 50% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 32.3:1 in 2018 to 23.2:1 today.

On the community side, members of the Vallejo Charter community share and discuss pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.