RIO GRANDE ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS

As a low-enrollment K-5 school in ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, RIO GRANDE ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS works with 203 students from grades K through 8, operated by RIO GRANDE ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS. Enrollment runs roughly 29% smaller than the state mean of about 287.

Operationally, RIO GRANDE ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS answers to RIO GRANDE ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

For racial and ethnic makeup, RIO GRANDE ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS reports that 76% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 11% White, 9% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 49%.

On the resource side, RIO GRANDE ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS logs 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.5:1. The state averages around 12.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 98% of students at RIO GRANDE ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, RIO GRANDE ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 33.9%; this one delivers 31.2%.

Around the school, census data for Bernalillo County shows the typical household earns roughly $69,473 per year, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. RIO GRANDE ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS is one of 211 public schools in Bernalillo County (combined enrollment of about 85,724 students).

LA ACADEMIA DE ESPERANZA is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), RIO GRANDE ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 27.3%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting. RIO GRANDE ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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