Freedom Prep Academy

Freedom Prep Academy operates as a micro-enrollment elementary campus in Birmingham, Alabama, part of Freedom Prep Academy. Current enrollment sits at 41 students spanning grades K through 1. That puts it 91% leaner than the typical public school in Alabama, which averages around 480 students.

Freedom Prep Academy is the operating authority for Freedom Prep Academy, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

On demographics, Freedom Prep Academy reports that 85% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Beyond that, the school records 10% Hispanic, 2% White, 2% multiracial. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 42%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Around 68% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Jefferson County (around 52%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Jefferson County indicate the typical household earns roughly $66,388 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Freedom Prep Academy is one of 181 public schools in Jefferson County (combined enrollment of about 97,401 students).

Nearest neighbor: Washington K8, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a high-density site. Freedom Prep Academy is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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