WILLIAM W & JOSEPHINE DORN CHARTER COMMUNITY SCHOOL

WILLIAM W & JOSEPHINE DORN CHARTER COMMUNITY SCHOOL operates as a tiny K-5 school in ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, operated by ALBUQUERQUE. Current enrollment sits at 49 students spanning grades K through 5. That puts it 83% leaner than the typical public school in New Mexico, which averages around 287 students.

WILLIAM W & JOSEPHINE DORN CHARTER COMMUNITY SCHOOL is one of 171 schools operated by ALBUQUERQUE, a district that educates 74,041 students overall.

Looking at the student body, WILLIAM W & JOSEPHINE DORN CHARTER COMMUNITY SCHOOL records that the largest single group is Hispanic at 47%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder comes out to 20% White, 20% Black, 12% Native American. That composition is broadly in line with Bernalillo County as a whole.

On the resource side, WILLIAM W & JOSEPHINE DORN CHARTER COMMUNITY SCHOOL shows 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 8.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.9:1 average. An estimated 80% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Bernalillo County (around 90%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

In the surrounding community, Bernalillo County reports that median household earnings sit near $69,473, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. WILLIAM W & JOSEPHINE DORN CHARTER COMMUNITY SCHOOL is one of 211 public schools in Bernalillo County (combined enrollment of about 85,724 students).

Nearest neighbor: EUGENE FIELD ELEMENTARY, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around WILLIAM W & JOSEPHINE DORN CHARTER COMMUNITY SCHOOL.

The school occupies an urban site. WILLIAM W & JOSEPHINE DORN CHARTER COMMUNITY SCHOOL operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Five-year trend. WILLIAM W & JOSEPHINE DORN CHARTER COMMUNITY SCHOOL's enrollment has declined 8% since 2018, when it stood at 53 (now 49). Over the same period, the Hispanic share declined from 64% to 47%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 10.6:1 in 2018 to 8.7:1 today.

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