PUBLIC ACADEMY FOR PERFORMING ARTS

Located at 11800 PRINCESS JEANNE AVE. NE, in ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, PUBLIC ACADEMY FOR PERFORMING ARTS is an average-sized secondary school that hosts 448 students (grades 6 through 12), one of the schools within ALBUQUERQUE.

Across the 171 schools in ALBUQUERQUE (74,041 students total), PUBLIC ACADEMY FOR PERFORMING ARTS accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, PUBLIC ACADEMY FOR PERFORMING ARTS logs that 52% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest looks like 31% White, 13% multiracial, 2% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, PUBLIC ACADEMY FOR PERFORMING ARTS has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.9:1 average. Roughly 33% of students at PUBLIC ACADEMY FOR PERFORMING ARTS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Bernalillo County's rate of about 90%.

After controlling for student poverty, PUBLIC ACADEMY FOR PERFORMING ARTS sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 49.4%; this one delivers 48.6%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Bernalillo County indicate median household income runs about $69,473, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. PUBLIC ACADEMY FOR PERFORMING ARTS is one of 211 public schools in Bernalillo County (combined enrollment of about 85,724 students).

Nearest neighbor: JACKSON MIDDLE, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PUBLIC ACADEMY FOR PERFORMING ARTS ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 31.5%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting. PUBLIC ACADEMY FOR PERFORMING ARTS operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Trend over the last 7 years. PUBLIC ACADEMY FOR PERFORMING ARTS's enrollment has ticked up 18% since 2018, when it stood at 380 (now 448). White enrollment moved from 42% to 31% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 13.5:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 today.

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