Summary:
Walton Charter Academy is the sole elementary school serving grades K-8 in the Walton Charter Academy District, located in Pontiac, Michigan. With a total enrollment of 781 students, the school faces significant challenges, including consistently low academic performance, high chronic absenteeism, and a student population facing substantial socioeconomic disadvantages.
Walton Charter Academy's academic proficiency rates across subjects and grade levels are consistently below the state averages. In English Language Arts, proficiency ranges from 23.2% to 42.9%, while in Mathematics, it ranges from 9.3% to 28.6%. The school's performance in Science and Social Studies is also significantly lower than the state's, with proficiency rates of 14.7% and 25% in 5th and 8th grade, respectively. Additionally, the school's PSAT performance in 8th grade is below the state average in both ELA and Math.
Compounding these academic challenges, Walton Charter Academy faces a chronic absenteeism rate of 29.5%, which is substantially higher than the state average. Furthermore, the school serves a population where 93.85% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, indicating a high level of economic disadvantage. Despite the school's higher-than-average spending of $14,492 per student, the academic outcomes suggest that simply increasing funding may not be the sole solution to improving educational outcomes for the students of Walton Charter Academy.
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