# Arete Charter Academy

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/arete-charter-academy-grass-valley

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063093014123`
- **School name**: Arete Charter Academy
- **Location**: Grass Valley, CA 95949
- **Address**: 16229 Duggans Rd.
- **District**: Pleasant Ridge Union Elementary (LEAID `0630930`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–8
- **Charter school**: Yes
- **Coordinates**: 39.07412, -121.11252
- **Phone**: (530)268-2805
- **Website**: https://www.arete.prsd.us

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 207
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 9
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 23.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 32.4%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: CA Dashboard
- **Year**: 2024
- **Overall rating**: Orange
- **Indicators**:
  - elpi: 0
  - math: Orange
  - ela: Orange
  - chronic_absent: Blue

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 46.3% proficient — 131 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 2.9% (8 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.7% (1 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 0
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 28.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 4.6% — 11 students
- **English Learners**: 0.0%

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Autism**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $12,996
- **Federal share**: $163
- **State + local share**: $12,833
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 239
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $14,054,217
- **Federal share**: 10.1%
- **State share**: 31.1%
- **Local share**: 58.8%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,125,000

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $118,125
- **Poverty rate**: 9.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 20.5%
- **Unemployment**: 5.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,877
- **Foreign-born residents**: 2.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 4.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 13.1 miles (LAVA CAP MINE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 0
- **Nearest brownfield**: 8.57 miles (FORMER BEAR RIVER MILL EAST)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: NEVADA ID - E. GEORGE, BANNER MOUNTAIN
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.1763 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 9.6 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Bear River High** — 2.7 mi away, 0.63% (this school: 2.9%)
- **Colfax High** — 8.2 mi away, 0.32% (this school: 2.9%)
- **Bitney Prep High** — 11.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.9%)
- **Placer County Court Schools** — 11.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.9%)
- **Placer County Pathways Charter** — 11.7 mi away, 2% (this school: 2.9%)

### ela proficiency
- **Bear River High** — 2.7 mi away, 63% (this school: 42.15%)
- **Magnolia Intermediate** — 2.8 mi away, 43.35% (this school: 42.15%)
- **Cottage Hill Elementary** — 2.9 mi away, 42.25% (this school: 42.15%)
- **Alta Sierra Elementary** — 4.9 mi away, 51.3% (this school: 42.15%)
- **Clear Creek Elementary** — 5.0 mi away, 50.45% (this school: 42.15%)

### math proficiency
- **Bear River High** — 2.7 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Cottage Hill Elementary** — 2.9 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Alta Sierra Elementary** — 4.9 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Clear Creek Elementary** — 5.0 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Sierra Hills Elementary** — 7.4 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/arete-charter-academy-grass-valley
- **Performance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/arete-charter-academy-grass-valley/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/arete-charter-academy-grass-valley/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/arete-charter-academy-grass-valley/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/arete-charter-academy-grass-valley/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/arete-charter-academy-grass-valley/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/arete-charter-academy-grass-valley/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/arete-charter-academy-grass-valley/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/arete-charter-academy-grass-valley/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/arete-charter-academy-grass-valley/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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