SOUTH VALLEY PREP

Located at 2551 KARSTEN CT SE, in ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, SOUTH VALLEY PREP is an intimate middle-grades school that serves 138 students (grades 6 through 8), part of SOUTH VALLEY PREP. Enrollment runs roughly 59% smaller than the state mean of about 335.

SOUTH VALLEY PREP is a school of SOUTH VALLEY PREP, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

Demographically, SOUTH VALLEY PREP shows that 93% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest looks like 2% multiracial, 2% Native American. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 49%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.5:1, putting SOUTH VALLEY PREP higher than the state norm the norm. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Bernalillo County's rate of about 90%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), SOUTH VALLEY PREP performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.4%, the actual is 28.9%, a residual of -4.5 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Bernalillo County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $69,473 per year, 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), SOUTH VALLEY PREP is one campus in the mix.

EAST SAN JOSE ELEMENTARY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts SOUTH VALLEY PREP at 3rd of 4; the average score across the group is 36.9%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting. SOUTH VALLEY PREP 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. SOUTH VALLEY PREP's enrollment has decreased 10% since 2018, when it stood at 154 (now 138).

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