GRAND CENTER ARTS ACADEMY HIGH

GRAND CENTER ARTS ACADEMY HIGH, a cozy senior high in ST. LOUIS, Missouri, run under CONFLUENCE ACADEMIES, hosts 402 students, covering grades 9 through 12.

CONFLUENCE ACADEMIES runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 2,460 students. GRAND CENTER ARTS ACADEMY HIGH is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, GRAND CENTER ARTS ACADEMY HIGH lists that 78% of the student body identifies as Black. Other groups include 14% White, 3% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, St. Louis city as a whole is about 42% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school reports having 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.2:1, putting GRAND CENTER ARTS ACADEMY HIGH tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, GRAND CENTER ARTS ACADEMY HIGH tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 49.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 43.5%.

In the area at large, census data for St. Louis city shows median household earnings sit near $56,160, 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. Across St. Louis city's 113 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,941 students), GRAND CENTER ARTS ACADEMY HIGH is one campus in the mix.

GRAND CENTER ARTS ACAD MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around GRAND CENTER ARTS ACADEMY HIGH. On composite proficiency, GRAND CENTER ARTS ACADEMY HIGH comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 49.7%.

GRAND CENTER ARTS ACADEMY HIGH operates from an inner-city location. GRAND CENTER ARTS ACADEMY HIGH 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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