Summary:
The Aspire Capitol Heights Academy District in Sacramento, California, is a single-school district serving grades K-8 through Aspire Capitol Heights Academy, which enrolls 222 students in a high-poverty community.
This school faces significant academic challenges, consistently ranking in the bottom 4% of all California schools, with proficiency rates in English, math, and science far below state averages. A particularly alarming finding is that 6th and 8th-grade students showed 0% proficiency in core subjects. While there has been a slight improvement in its statewide ranking, moving from the very bottom, the academic performance remains critically low. The school also contends with a severe chronic absenteeism rate of 47.5%, more than double the state average, which creates a major barrier to student learning.
Despite these struggles, the district spends a substantial $28,560 per student. The recent minor improvement suggests potential for progress, but urgent, targeted interventions are needed, particularly to address student attendance and the instructional support for middle-grade students where performance has completely collapsed.
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