Ascend Leadership Academy: Lee County

Students in Sanford, North Carolina, attend Ascend Leadership Academy: Lee County, a small high school. Classes run from 6 through 12, and the school has 628 students.

Federal records list Ascend Leadership Academy: Lee County as its own district.

Ascend Leadership Academy: Lee County's enrollment is 54% White. Next come 21% Hispanic, 13% Black, and 10% multiracial. That compares with about 64% White among all Lee County residents. By the diversity index, Ascend Leadership Academy: Lee County comes in at 64%.

The school employs the equivalent of 46.4 full-time teachers, for a ratio of 13.6:1. Among high schools in North Carolina, the typical ratio is 19.6:1.

Lee County has these Census figures: median household income is about $65,387, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 21% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 13%. The public schools of Lee County number 20 and enroll about 10,641.

The closest public school to Ascend Leadership Academy: Lee County is Ascend Leadership Remote Academy, less than a tenth of a mile away. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8.

NCES describes the area around Ascend Leadership Academy: Lee County as Town: Distant, meaning in a town some distance from an urbanized area. Ascend Leadership Academy: Lee County is one of the charter schools in North Carolina.

Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, reported enrollment went from 398 to 628. Such a large difference may reflect a change in the grades served. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 16.6:1 to 13.6:1.

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