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Hopewell Middle School
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Test scores
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedBeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodology7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Hopewell Middle School
Located at 13060 Cogburn Rd, in Alpharetta, Georgia, Hopewell Middle School is a heavily attended 6-8 campus that teaches 1,265 students (grades 6 through 8), run under Fulton County. By comparison, Georgia's public schools average about 763 students each, so Hopewell Middle School sits 66% bigger than that benchmark.
Within Fulton County, which oversees 107 schools and 87,563 students, Hopewell Middle School is one campus in the system.
On the student-mix side, Hopewell Middle School shows that the largest single group is White at 46%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder looks like 20% Asian, 16% Hispanic, 14% Black, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Fulton County as a whole is about 38% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 90 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 14.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 20% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Fulton County (around 62%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Hopewell Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 67.2%, the actual is 67.9%, a residual of +0.8 points.
In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Fulton County) records that median household income runs about $95,292, 59% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Hopewell Middle School is one of 205 public schools in Fulton County (combined enrollment of about 138,270 students).
Nearest neighbor: Cogburn Woods Elementary School, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Hopewell Middle School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 71.0%.
Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Hopewell Middle School has shrank 16%, going from 1,506 students in 2018 to 1,265 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 57% to 46% across the same window.
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