Coretta Scott King Young Women's Leadership Academy

Coretta Scott King Young Women's Leadership Academy is one of the very small 9-12 campuss in Atlanta, Georgia, run under Atlanta Public Schools, with 377 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 66% smaller than the state mean of about 1,120.

Coretta Scott King Young Women's Leadership Academy is one of 87 schools operated by Atlanta Public Schools, a district that instructs 49,945 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Coretta Scott King Young Women's Leadership Academy lists that 94% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Other groups include 4% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 43% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 7.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.2:1, putting Coretta Scott King Young Women's Leadership Academy tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 98% of students at Coretta Scott King Young Women's Leadership Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Fulton County runs at roughly 62%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Coretta Scott King Young Women's Leadership Academy sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 26.8%; this one delivers 28.6%.

Around the school, census data for Fulton County shows the typical household earns roughly $95,292 per year, about 59% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Coretta Scott King Young Women's Leadership Academy is one of 205 public schools in Fulton County (combined enrollment of about 138,270 students).

The closest other public school is B.E.S.T Academy, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Coretta Scott King Young Women's Leadership Academy. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Coretta Scott King Young Women's Leadership Academy at 2nd of 9; the average score across the group is 23.1%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Coretta Scott King Young Women's Leadership Academy's enrollment has expanded 4% since 2018, when it stood at 364 (now 377). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 10.1:1 in 2018 to 7.9:1 today.

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