1. Charter Schools Report
District and County Sponsored Charter Schools in :
West Contra Costa Unified School District
In this report I will discuss locations of current charter schools, name district and county sponsored schools and enrollment numbers at each grade level for , show data on demographic and special populations, and review CAASPP test scores for last year.

2. Locations
The map shows the locations of each charter school. Schools are clustered in central Richmond, and the Hill Top area, with the exception of Summit K2, which is located in El Cerrito.

3. District & County Schools
Aspire Richmond Tech Academy (RTA)
Aspire Richmond California College Prep Academy (RCCPA)
Richmond College Prep (RCP)
Manzanita Middle School
Leadership Public High, Richmond (LPS)
Amethod Benito Juarez Elementary (BJE)
Amethod Richmond Charter Academy (RCA)
Amethod John Henry High School (JHHS)
Summit Tamalpais
COUNTY
Making Waves Academy
Summit K2
Caliber Beta Academy (CBA)
All of these schools serve District students, but the District-Sponsored schools are under our oversight, and the County-sponsored schools are supervised by the Contra Costa County Office of Education.
Five Charter Management Organizations (CMOs) provide oversight to nine of these schools. Charter Management organizations are similar to a District, but have fewer restrictions. Some of these CMOs are based elsewhere, such as Summit, which holds board meetings in Redwood City, or Amethod, based in Oakland.
The CMOs serving District students are:
Aspire
LPS
Amethod
Summit
Caliber

4. Grade Level Enrollment, 2015-16K 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Enrollment
Amethod: BJE 61 84 60 80
405
Aspire: RTA 50 48 27 26
251
RCP 90 63 59 57 55
444
Caliber Beta 93 91 94 92
608
Making Waves
112
111
101 81 77 72
759
Manzanita 35 52
135
Amethod: RCA 86 88
231
SummitK2
224
Aspire: RCCPA 58
232
Amethod: JHHS 95 30
125
Leadership
149
122
115
511
294
288
260
284
239
255
320
445
407
397
292
257
187
3925
County and District Sponsored schools are the far left column.
School level enrollment figures for are on the far right column with the grand total presented at the bottom right corner.
Grade level totals are across the bottom, so you’ll see that the highest enrollment is in the middle school levels– a trend that will continue to move upward and into High School as SummitK2, Summit Tamalpais, John Henry High and Aspire RCCPA continue their expansion one grade level per year.

5. DEMOGRAHICS SERVED:
Orientation: each row is a school or entity: the top is WCCUSD, followed by the three county sponsored schools, then District sponsored schools. Blue is Hispanic and Latino, Grey is Asian, Green is African American, Pink is Caucasian, Yellow is 2 or more races, and taupe represents students who did not report their ethnicity.
This chart illustrates by a wide margin, charter schools enroll Latino/ Hispanic families and students. AVG. of Hisp/Lat: <75%. The Amethod CMO that oversees Benito Juarez, Richmond Charter Academy, and John Henry High enrolled from 95 to 92% Latino/ Hispanic students, averaging 94%. The average for all charters shows a 78% enrollment for Hispanic Latino students, compared to the District 54%. A lack of opportunity is one consequence of this disparity is a lack of opportunity for diversity in charter schools, eliminating opportunity for some ethnic groups.
Asian students (grey band), is a growing demographic that includes Chinese, Japanese, Hmong, Laotian, Indian, Korean, and Filipino (at minimum). This demographic is largely served by the District with 10%. The schools serving the fewest students from this demographic are two of the Amethod Schools: JHHS, and BJE.
African American students (green band) were well-represented at Summit K-2 with 21%, Aspire College Prep at 22%, and RCP with 36% compared to the district’s 18%. This demographic is under-represented at several charter schools.
White students are clustered at Summitk2 (16%) and the District, with 10%.
The greatest numbers of unreported ethnicity are at SummitK2, with 8%.
Charter law says that charters should seek to serve “…a racial and ethnic balance among its students that is reflective of the general population residing within the territorial jurisdiction of the school district to which the charter petition is submitted.” (Ed. Code (b)(5)(G).

6. Special Education Provision
Shown here are percentages of enrollment who require Special Education services for
The District served 13% last year, compared to a low of 4% at John Henry High School. The CMO that oversees JHHS, RCA, and BJE: Amethod, had an average of 5.27% across their WCC schools. Making Waves had 5.8%, and RCP had 6.3%.
Incidence, or severity of need can vary from light and inexpensive to provide, to severe. While I am not able to access incidence reports for most of the charter schools as these schools manage their own services through the El Dorado SELPA, it is understood that the District manages higher needs by a significant margin.

7. Students Living in Poverty
The Highest percentage of Students Living in Poverty are served by Leadership Public Schools, followed by Richmond Charter Academy, and then Making Waves Academy.
Ricmond College Prep, followed by Summit K2 serve the lowest percentage of students living in poverty.

8. Student Performance Data, CAASPP
These numbers represent students at or above grade level on the CAASPP test. Green columns represent English Language Arts scores, and orange represents Math.
Highlights include powerful scores from Leadership Public Schools at 74%, SummitK2 at 66% and Aspire RCCPA at 59% in ELA. The District outperformed Caliber Beta Academy, Manzanita Middle School, and Benito Juarez Elementary in ELA. Top performers in Math include SummitK2 at 44%, Aspire RTA at 33%. The difference in performance between ELA and Math scores appears to challenge each school.

9. Support Offered by WCCUSD to Charters
Professional Development
Safety Coordination
Facilitation of Inter-Charter Cooperation
Research and develop shared opportunities
Professional Development: The District initiated shared opportunities for professional development two years ago. Most recently we have offered an opportunity to train counselors in identifying and serving homeless students.
The District provides updates pertinent to serving our collected community in the event of hazards or danger. One recent example includes close work with charters to insure student safety during the protest marches.
District serves as a conduit between charters for important news or offerings.