Alma del Mar Charter School

Alma del Mar Charter School is a sizable K-5 school in New Bedford, Massachusetts, part of Alma del Mar Charter School. The school educates 1,042 students in grades K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 173% bigger than the state mean of about 381.

Alma del Mar Charter School is a school of Alma del Mar Charter School, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

On demographics, Alma del Mar Charter School lists that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 61% of enrollment; the rest breaks down as 17% White, 16% Black, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Bristol County as a whole is about 10% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 94 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.2:1 average.

In the broader community, census data for Bristol County shows the typical household earns roughly $85,625 per year, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Bristol County's 142 public schools (combined enrollment of about 80,897 students), Alma del Mar Charter School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Global Learning Charter Public School, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Alma del Mar Charter School operates from an outer-ring location. Alma del Mar Charter School is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Five-year trend. Alma del Mar Charter School's enrollment has rose 152% since 2018, when it stood at 413 (now 1,042). White enrollment moved from 29% to 17% across the same window.

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