Salida del Sol Academy

Salida del Sol Academy is an elementary-level community of heavily attended scale in GREELEY, Colorado, overseen by GreeleySchool District No. 6 in the county of Weld and Sta, teacheing 654 students in grades K through 8. That puts it 73% bigger than the typical public school in Colorado, which averages around 379 students.

Within GreeleySchool District No. 6 in the county of Weld and Sta, which oversees 34 schools and 22,917 students, Salida del Sol Academy is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Salida del Sol Academy shows that 97% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 3% White. The wider county runs roughly 31% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Salida del Sol Academy shows 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 81% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Weld County runs at roughly 47%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Salida del Sol Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 17.9%, the actual is 18.0%, a residual of +0.1 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Weld County put the typical household earns roughly $97,097 per year, about 33% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Weld County's 116 public schools (combined enrollment of about 61,274 students), Salida del Sol Academy is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Union Colony Elementary School, around 1.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Salida del Sol Academy comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 20.3%.

Salida del Sol Academy operates from a metropolitan location. Salida del Sol Academy is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Five-year trend. Salida del Sol Academy's enrollment has declined 5% since 2018, when it stood at 686 (now 654).

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