Sky Ranch Academy

Set in AURORA, Colorado, Sky Ranch Academy is a mid-tier elementary school, one of the schools within Bennett School District No. 29J. It instructs 495 students across grades K through 8. That puts it 31% above the typical public school in Colorado, which averages around 379 students.

Within Bennett School District No. 29J, which oversees 6 schools and 1,793 students, Sky Ranch Academy is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Sky Ranch Academy logs that 36% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder comes out to 29% Hispanic, 19% Black, 13% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Arapahoe County as a whole is about 59% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Sky Ranch Academy has 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.6:1, putting Sky Ranch Academy higher than the state norm the norm. About 42% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is south of Arapahoe County's rate of about 50%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Sky Ranch Academy is in the bottom 10% of Colorado public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 41.0%; Sky Ranch Academy posts 25.1%, -15.9 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, census data for Arapahoe County shows median household earnings sit near $101,087, 47% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Arapahoe County runs 176 public schools (combined enrollment of about 115,502 students), of which Sky Ranch Academy is one.

The closest other public school is Harmony Ridge P-8, roughly 1.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around Sky Ranch Academy. On composite proficiency, Sky Ranch Academy comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 26.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area. Sky Ranch Academy operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

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