SANTA FE COLLEGE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Set in GAINSVILLE, Florida, SANTA FE COLLEGE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY is a very small four-year high school, operated by ALACHUA. It instructs 133 students across grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 1,035 students each, so SANTA FE COLLEGE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY sits 87% below that benchmark.

ALACHUA runs 60 schools in total, collectively educating 28,255 students. SANTA FE COLLEGE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, SANTA FE COLLEGE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY lists that the most-represented group is White (38%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 32% Black, 14% Hispanic, 8% Asian, 8% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 61%.

In terms of school funding signals, SANTA FE COLLEGE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY lists 5 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 26.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 23.5:1 average. An estimated 40% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Alachua County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, SANTA FE COLLEGE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.2%, the actual is 70.8%, a residual of +9.6 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Alachua County shows the typical household earns roughly $61,949 per year, about 49% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Alachua County runs 68 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,618 students), of which SANTA FE COLLEGE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY is one.

Nearest neighbor: FORT CLARKE MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SANTA FE COLLEGE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts SANTA FE COLLEGE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY at 1st of 8; the average score across the group is 64.9%.

SANTA FE COLLEGE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY operates from an outer-ring location. SANTA FE COLLEGE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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