7 Pillars Career Academy

7 Pillars Career Academy, an one-room-style junior high in Forest Park, Georgia, part of Clayton County, serves 271 students, covering grades 6 through 10. By comparison, Georgia's public schools average about 763 students each, so 7 Pillars Career Academy sits 64% leaner than that benchmark.

Across the 68 schools in Clayton County (51,326 students total), 7 Pillars Career Academy accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, 7 Pillars Career Academy shows that 88% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority; the rest reads as 8% Hispanic. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 69%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 72% of students at 7 Pillars Career Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below Clayton County's rate of about 92%.

After controlling for student poverty, 7 Pillars Career Academy falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 40.0%; this one comes in at 10.3%, -29.6 points off the demographic line.

In the broader community, Clayton County reports that median household income runs about $59,806, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Clayton County runs 73 public schools (combined enrollment of about 63,156 students), of which 7 Pillars Career Academy is one.

Unidos Dual Language School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), 7 Pillars Career Academy ranks 9th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 22.1%.

7 Pillars Career Academy operates from a bedroom-community location. As a public charter, 7 Pillars Career Academy runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

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