New Summit Charter Academy

New Summit Charter Academy is one of the expansive elementary schools in COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, run under Academy School District No. 20 in the county of El Paso an, with 628 students on its rolls from grades K through 8. That puts it 66% larger than the typical public school in Colorado, which averages around 379 students.

Academy School District No. 20 in the county of El Paso an comprises 39 schools with combined enrollment of 25,607 students; New Summit Charter Academy is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, New Summit Charter Academy lists that the largest single group is White, at 61% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 22% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 4% Asian, 4% Black. The wider county runs roughly 70% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.2:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 38% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, New Summit Charter Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.8%, the actual is 42.8%, a residual of -1.0 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for El Paso County put the typical household earns roughly $90,363 per year, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, El Paso County runs 245 public schools (combined enrollment of about 114,356 students), of which New Summit Charter Academy is one.

Rampart High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around New Summit Charter Academy. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), New Summit Charter Academy ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 46.6%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area. As a public charter, New Summit Charter Academy runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

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