CONFLUENCE PREPARATORY ACADEMY

CONFLUENCE PREPARATORY ACADEMY, a mid-sized secondary school in ST LOUIS, Missouri, part of CONFLUENCE ACADEMIES, hosts 442 students, covering grades 9 through 12.

CONFLUENCE ACADEMIES comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 2,460 students; CONFLUENCE PREPARATORY ACADEMY is among them.

In terms of who attends, CONFLUENCE PREPARATORY ACADEMY records that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (82%). Other groups include 13% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 42% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, CONFLUENCE PREPARATORY ACADEMY has 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.8:1. The state averages around 12.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, CONFLUENCE PREPARATORY ACADEMY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 49.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 38.6%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for St. Louis city put median household income runs about $56,160, about 41% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. CONFLUENCE PREPARATORY ACADEMY is one of 113 public schools in St. Louis city (combined enrollment of about 29,941 students).

The closest other public school is St. Louis Voices Academy, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CONFLUENCE PREPARATORY ACADEMY. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts CONFLUENCE PREPARATORY ACADEMY at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 41.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area. CONFLUENCE PREPARATORY ACADEMY is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Trend over the last 7 years. CONFLUENCE PREPARATORY ACADEMY's enrollment has decreased 37% since 2018, when it stood at 703 (now 442). Over the same period, the Black share fell from 99% to 82%.

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