Voices College-Bound Language Academy

Located at 715 Hellyer Ave., in San Jose, California, Voices College-Bound Language Academy is a small primary school that educates 316 students (grades K through 8), part of Voices College-Bound Language Academy District. Enrollment runs roughly 32% smaller than the state mean of about 465.

Voices College-Bound Language Academy is a school of Voices College-Bound Language Academy District, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

Demographically, Voices College-Bound Language Academy reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (97%). Other groups include 3% White. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 25%.

On the resource side, On paper, Voices College-Bound Language Academy has 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.6:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 73% of students at Voices College-Bound Language Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Santa Clara County runs at roughly 37%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Santa Clara County shows median household earnings sit near $164,281, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Voices College-Bound Language Academy is one of 412 public schools in Santa Clara County (combined enrollment of about 230,059 students).

The closest other public school is G. W. Hellyer Elementary, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area. Voices College-Bound Language Academy is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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