Bradfield Center - Ault Academy

Bradfield Center - Ault Academy is a 9-12 campus of rural-scale scale in LaGrange, Georgia, overseen by Troup County, works with 24 students in grades 5 through 12. That puts it 98% smaller than the typical public school in Georgia, which averages around 1,120 students.

Within Troup County, which oversees 19 schools and 12,262 students, Bradfield Center - Ault Academy is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Bradfield Center - Ault Academy logs that 54% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school logs 42% Black, 4% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 3.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.2:1 average. About 88% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Bradfield Center - Ault Academy is in the bottom 10% of Georgia public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 32.1%; Bradfield Center - Ault Academy posts 15.3%, -16.8 points below that line.

Zooming out to the county, Troup County reports that median household earnings sit near $56,776, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. In all, Troup County runs 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,262 students), of which Bradfield Center - Ault Academy is one.

The closest other public school is LaGrange High School, roughly 1.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Bradfield Center - Ault Academy. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Bradfield Center - Ault Academy ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 32.4%.

Bradfield Center - Ault Academy operates from a town-center location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Bradfield Center - Ault Academy has shrank 29%, going from 34 students in 2018 to 24 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked up from 29% to 54% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 4.6:1 in 2018 to 3.0:1 today.

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