Mount Hope

Mount Hope is one of the one-room-style K-5 schools in Mt Hope, Alabama, part of Lawrence County, with 117 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 76% smaller than the state mean of about 480.

Mount Hope is one of 12 schools operated by Lawrence County, a district that educates 4,676 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Mount Hope records that 84% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school records 9% multiracial, 6% Native American.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.0:1 average. Around 56% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Mount Hope sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 43.6%; this one delivers 56.0%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Lawrence County) shows that median household income runs about $66,071, roughly 15% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Lawrence County runs 14 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,676 students), of which Mount Hope is one.

East Franklin Junior High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 7.9 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Mount Hope ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 34.5%.

Mount Hope operates from an outlying location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 3%: 121 students in 2018 compared to 117 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 in 2025.

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