Legacy Acad of Excellence Charter

Set in Rockford, Illinois, Legacy Acad of Excellence Charter is a low-enrollment elementary-level community, overseen by Rockford SD 205. It serves 234 students across grades K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 39% smaller than the state mean of about 381.

Within Rockford SD 205, which oversees 44 schools and 28,467 students, Legacy Acad of Excellence Charter is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Legacy Acad of Excellence Charter shows that the largest single group is Black at 53%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school logs 24% Hispanic, 15% White, 7% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 12% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Legacy Acad of Excellence Charter shows 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 29.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. An estimated 20% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below Winnebago County's rate of about 61%.

With demographic context factored in, Legacy Acad of Excellence Charter is in the bottom 10% of Illinois public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 60.2%; Legacy Acad of Excellence Charter posts 25.1%, -35.0 points below that line.

Across the wider county, Winnebago County reports that median household earnings sit near $65,837, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Winnebago County's 94 public schools (combined enrollment of about 44,103 students), Legacy Acad of Excellence Charter is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Rockford Envrnmntl Science Acad, around 1.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Legacy Acad of Excellence Charter. On composite proficiency, Legacy Acad of Excellence Charter comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 13.9%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting. As a public charter, Legacy Acad of Excellence Charter runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Trend over the last 7 years. Legacy Acad of Excellence Charter's enrollment has fell 27% since 2018, when it stood at 321 (now 234). The Black share of enrollment contracted from 60% to 53% over that span. Class-load math has widened: from 24.7:1 in 2018 to 29.3:1 in 2025.

On allk12, members of the Legacy Acad of Excellence Charter community share and discuss school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.