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Hopewell Middle School
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Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedWhat this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 71 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 75 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Georgia schools, those numbers are about 40 and 45. Reading and writing scores are up about 4 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 14 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 68% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 67% typical for Georgia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Georgia's top nor bottom 10%.
7-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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