Summary:
Rocketship Alma Academy District in San Jose, California, contains a single elementary school, Rocketship Alma Academy, serving grades K-5 with 532 students, which faces significant challenges including high economic need and large class sizes.
As the only school in the Rocketship Alma Academy District, Rocketship Alma Academy shows a notable decline in its statewide ranking over recent years, now placing in the 34th percentile. Academic performance is below state averages, with particular concern in science where only 17.57% of fifth graders scored as proficient. However, mathematics is a relative strength, with fifth-grade performance nearly matching the state average, and English scores show clear improvement from third to fifth grade, suggesting effective growth in literacy skills over time.
Key factors influencing the school's environment include a very high chronic absenteeism rate of 27.6%, well above the state average, and a student-teacher ratio of 32 to 1. Despite a per-student spending above the California average, these operational challenges coincide with the school's academic struggles. The district itself is ranked in the 28th percentile statewide, indicating broader systemic factors. For parents, the data highlights a school serving a high-needs community with areas for urgent improvement in attendance and science instruction, alongside some promising academic trajectories in upper-grade math and English.
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