GILBERT L SENA CHARTER HS

As a cozy 9-12 campus in ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, GILBERT L SENA CHARTER HS teaches 185 students from grades 9 through 12, operated by ALBUQUERQUE. That puts it 59% leaner than the typical public school in New Mexico, which averages around 450 students.

Within ALBUQUERQUE, which oversees 171 schools and 74,041 students, GILBERT L SENA CHARTER HS is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, GILBERT L SENA CHARTER HS logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 68%. Beyond that, the school reports 12% White, 7% multiracial, 6% Black, 5% Native American. By comparison, Bernalillo County as a whole is about 49% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.9:1, putting GILBERT L SENA CHARTER HS tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 99% of students at GILBERT L SENA CHARTER HS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Bernalillo County runs at roughly 90%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Bernalillo County put median household income runs about $69,473, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Bernalillo County's 211 public schools (combined enrollment of about 85,724 students), GILBERT L SENA CHARTER HS is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: KENNEDY MIDDLE, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a city-core setting. GILBERT L SENA CHARTER HS 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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