PENSACOLA STATE CHARTER ACADEMY

Set in PENSACOLA, Florida, PENSACOLA STATE CHARTER ACADEMY is an one-room-style senior high, part of ESCAMBIA. It works with 112 students across grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 1,035 students each, so PENSACOLA STATE CHARTER ACADEMY sits 89% leaner than that benchmark.

ESCAMBIA runs 66 schools in total, collectively educating 36,795 students. PENSACOLA STATE CHARTER ACADEMY is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, PENSACOLA STATE CHARTER ACADEMY reports that White students make up the majority at 79%. The remainder looks like 7% multiracial, 6% Black, 5% Hispanic. By comparison, Escambia County as a whole is about 64% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 4 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 28.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 23.5:1 average. Roughly 9% of students at PENSACOLA STATE CHARTER ACADEMY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Escambia County (around 54%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, PENSACOLA STATE CHARTER ACADEMY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 76.7%, the actual is 87.2%, a residual of +10.4 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Escambia County put median household income runs about $67,500, 30% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Escambia County's 71 public schools (combined enrollment of about 37,056 students), PENSACOLA STATE CHARTER ACADEMY is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is HOPE HORIZON AT JUDY ANDREWS CENTER, roughly 0.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PENSACOLA STATE CHARTER ACADEMY. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PENSACOLA STATE CHARTER ACADEMY ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 38.4%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area. PENSACOLA STATE CHARTER ACADEMY is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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