ALTURAS PREPARATORY ACADEMY

ALTURAS PREPARATORY ACADEMY is one of the mid-tier four-year high schools in IDAHO FALLS, Idaho, one of the schools within ALTURAS PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC, with 463 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 12.

ALTURAS PREPARATORY ACADEMY is a school of ALTURAS PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

For racial and ethnic makeup, ALTURAS PREPARATORY ACADEMY shows that 78% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 11% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 5% Asian.

On the resource side, On paper, ALTURAS PREPARATORY ACADEMY has 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.6:1. The state averages about 16.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 27% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below Bonneville County's rate of about 41%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Bonneville County) logs that median household income runs about $79,068, about 33% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Bonneville County's 57 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,028 students), ALTURAS PREPARATORY ACADEMY is one campus in the mix.

SANDCREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ALTURAS PREPARATORY ACADEMY.

The campus sits in a high-density setting. ALTURAS PREPARATORY 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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