Enrollment
75
Arizona · 2024-25 NCES data
High school (grades 9-12) · Sierra Vista, AZ
Federal NCES profile for Ppep Tec - Colin L. Powell Learning Center, including enrollment, faculty, free-lunch eligibility, demographics, and resource indicators - Resource Investment Index 20/100.
The verdict
Ppep Tec - Colin L. Powell Learning Center earns 20/100 on the Resource Investment Index on federal resource data. It is also more racially and ethnically mixed than most Arizona schools.
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Enrollment
75
Arizona · 2024-25 NCES data
Free-lunch eligible
83.7%
vs 48.3% Arizona avg
+73% vs state
Ppep Tec - Colin L. Powell Learning Center is a high-poverty, small charter high school in Sierra Vista, Arizona, enrolling 75 students.
Economic need is high: 83.7% of students qualify for free meals, 73% above the Arizona average, a Title I-weighted population that federal funding formulas prioritise.
Enrollment of 75 puts it in the smaller third of Arizona schools by headcount.
Its Resource Investment Index sits near the middle of the pack among 2,064 scored Arizona schools.
Against 24 statewide peers matched on enrollment and economic need, it ranks mid-pack at #13.
Its student body is led by White (47%) and Hispanic or Latino (28%), more mixed than most schools in the state (diversity index 68/100).
No Advanced Placement courses are reported for this campus in the federal data.
Its district draws 23.3% of revenue from federal sources, an above-typical federal share that tends to track a higher-need student population.
Portable Practical Educational Preparation Inc. ( (4431) also operates Ppep Tec - Cesar Chavez Learning Center (187 students) and Ppep Tec - Raul H. Castro Learning Center (172 students) alongside Ppep Tec - Colin L. Powell Learning Center.
Sourced from NCES CCD, CRDC, and F-33 (federal records, not a quality verdict). How we source and compute this.
Source: National Center for Education Statistics Common Core of Data + CRDC + F-33 · 2024-25
Ppep Tec - Colin L. Powell Learning Center on the metrics families compare, against Arizona and U.S. means.
| Metric | This school | vs Arizona | Arizona avg | U.S. avg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free-lunch eligible | 83.7% | ▲ 73% | 48.3% | 51.7% |
| Enrollment | 75 | top 85% | - | - |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data School-level CCD + state/national means from Public School Universe · 2024-25
Three separate federal collections, each on its own reporting cadence - which is why this school's numbers line up on a consistent basis against every other school and state on this site, rather than mixing figures pulled from different survey years.
Largest group: White at 46.7% of enrollment.
Simpson diversity index - at 67.6, Ppep Tec - Colin L. Powell Learning Center is more mixed than the Arizona school average of 47.2.
District-wide per-pupil expenditure for Portable Practical Educational Preparation Inc. ( (4431), which includes Ppep Tec - Colin L. Powell Learning Center.
Source: NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey District-level finance · FY 2021-22 Per-pupil expenditure reflects the district-wide average. Individual school budgets are not reported at the federal level.
| School | Enrollment | Economic Profile | Student-Teacher Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ppep Tec - Cesar Chavez Learning Center | Larger | Similar economic need | No ratio data |
| Ppep Tec - Raul H. Castro Learning Center | Larger | Similar economic need | No ratio data |
| Ppep Tec - Celestino Fernandez Learning Center | Larger | Higher economic need | No ratio data |
| Ppep Tec - Alice S. Paul Learning Center | Larger | Lower economic need | No ratio data |
| Ppep Tec - Jose Yepez Learning Center | Similar size | Similar economic need | No ratio data |
Comparisons are relative to Ppep Tec - Colin L. Powell Learning Center's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data.
Matched by enrollment size and by staffing ratio across all of Arizona, not just this city - a different peer set than the local comparisons above.
Next steps
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Federal record (CCD 2024-25, CRDC 2021-22) - PlainSchools assigns no subjective rating; the composite quality score is a transparent, reproducible index computed from this cited federal data.
Ppep Tec - Colin L. Powell Learning Center has 75 students enrolled. It is a high school in Sierra Vista, AZ.
83.7% of students at Ppep Tec - Colin L. Powell Learning Center are eligible for free lunch, compared to the Arizona average of 48.3%.
The largest demographic group at Ppep Tec - Colin L. Powell Learning Center is White at 46.7% of enrollment, in Sierra Vista, AZ. Its student body is more racially and ethnically mixed than most US schools, with a diversity index of 67.6/100.
Ppep Tec - Colin L. Powell Learning Center has a Resource Investment Index of 20/100 (lower reported resources relative to schools nationally) based on 2 factors: student-teacher ratio. Not a test-score or academic measure (national median ~41/100, see methodology). Limited indicators were available, so the index reflects partial data.
Ppep Tec - Colin L. Powell Learning Center earns 20/100 on the Resource Investment Index on federal resource data. It is also more racially and ethnically mixed than most Arizona schools. This is a resource snapshot, not an academic rating; see the Resource Investment Index question above for what the number does and doesn't measure.
Besides Ppep Tec - Colin L. Powell Learning Center, Portable Practical Educational Preparation Inc. ( (4431) also operates Ppep Tec - Cesar Chavez Learning Center (187 students), Ppep Tec - Raul H. Castro Learning Center (172 students), and Ppep Tec - Celestino Fernandez Learning Center (116 students). See the Portable Practical Educational Preparation Inc. ( (4431) district page for the complete list.
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