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Enrollment
1,265
Middle
DISTRICT 922 · STATE 763
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FULTON COUNTY·NCES 130228003360
Hopewell Middle School
13060 Cogburn Rd, Alpharetta, GA 30004 · (470) 254-3240 · Fulton County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL1,265 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 87% of Georgia public middle schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- A-Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Georgia public middle schools
Student : Teacher
14.0:1
90 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.3:1 · STATE 14.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
20%
249 students
DISTRICT 58% · STATE 74%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 419 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 388 | 31% |
| Grade 8 | 458 | 36% |
Student demographics
70%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 72% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Hopewell Middle School→Cambridge High School
Based on published attendance-zone data from Fulton County. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedEnglish Language Arts
70.8%
GA avg 40.1% . +3.5pp since 2021
Math
75.5%
GA avg 44.6% . +13.6pp since 2021
What 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.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 70.8% | 75.5% |
| 2023-24 | 69.5% | 69.8% |
| 2022-23 | 67.0% | 63.0% |
| 2021-22 | 67.3% | 61.9% |
% Proficient or Distinguished, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Georgia Milestones. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
67.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
67.2%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.8pp
above demographic expectation
What 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Hopewell Middle School
Hopewell Middle School's state test result (67.9% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hopewell Middle School this school | 1,265 | 19.7% | 67.9% |
| J.C. Booth Middle School Peachtree City | 1,115 | 24.5% | 69.1% |
| Liberty Middle School Cumming | 1,256 | 21.7% | 50.2% |
| Simpson Middle School Marietta | 884 | 19.7% | 69.5% |
| Dodgen Middle School Marietta | 1,178 | 10.1% | 76.4% |
| Dickerson Middle School Marietta | 1,225 | 8.8% | 82.9% |
Matched among Georgia middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Hopewell Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Fulton County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 67.9% | #41 of 470 | #6 of 35 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 75.5% | #31 of 474 ▲ 7 | #5 of 35 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 70.8% | #22 of 474 ▲ 8 | #7 of 35 ▼ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +8.6pp | #85 of 465 | #5 of 35 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,265 | #45 of 487 | #2 of 38 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.0:1 | #241 of 471 | #28 of 37 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.9% | #34 of 471 | #3 of 37 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 19.7% | #454 of 479 | #31 of 38 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -16.0% | #97 of 305 | #15 of 26 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
1,265
-25 (-2%) vs 2020
+7% since 2010-11, when it was 1,185
Student : Teacher
14.0:1
was 13.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 1,265 | 90.3 | 14.0:1 | 20% (249) |
| 2023-24 | 1,196 | 87.2 | 13.7:1 | 18% (216) |
| 2022-23 | 1,222 | 85 | 14.4:1 | 13% (155) |
| 2020-21 | 1,290 | 97 | 13.3:1 | 12% (152) |
| 2017-18 | 1,506 | 100.4 | 15.0:1 | 14% (212) |
| 2015-16 | 1,443 | 101 | 14.3:1 | 13% (181) |
| 2010-11 | 1,185 | 89 | 13.3:1 | 16% (193) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Hopewell Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 16% (1,506 to 1,265); teachers down 10% (100.4 to 90.3).
About Hopewell Middle School
Hopewell Middle School is a public large middle-grades school in Alpharetta, Georgia. It enrolled 1,265 students in grades 6 through 8 for the 2024-25 school year. Statewide, middle schools in Georgia average about 763 students each.
Fulton County counts 87,563 students in its 107 schools, and Hopewell Middle School is one of them.
Hopewell Middle School has no majority group; White students are the largest, at 46%. Smaller groups are 20% Asian, 16% Hispanic, 14% Black, and 4% multiracial. County-wide, 38% of Fulton County residents are White. Hopewell Middle School's diversity index is 70%, against a US figure of 70%.
The school has about 14.0 students per teacher and 90.3 full-time-equivalent teachers. That matches the 14.1:1 average for middle schools in Georgia fairly closely. Federal records put free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at 20%. That is lower than the 62% average for public schools in Fulton County.
Hopewell Middle School is graded A by allk12, scoring above 87% of Georgia public middle schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Hopewell Middle School's actual average proficiency rate on state tests (67.9%) and its predicted rate (67.2%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of Georgia schools.
Within Fulton County, the median household income is $95,292, 59% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Besides Hopewell Middle School, Fulton County has 204 other public schools.
Cogburn Woods Elementary School is the public school closest to Hopewell Middle School, about 0.3 miles away. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Hopewell Middle School's average proficiency of 67.9% compares with 71.0% for its nearest scored neighbors.
NCES describes the area around Hopewell Middle School as Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment at Hopewell Middle School was 1,290 in 2020-21 and 1,265 in 2024-25, a change of less than 3%.
The discussion area below is open to posts about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Reviews and ratings from people who know the school are welcome.
Fulton County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,076,561
Census ACS
Median income
$95,292
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
59%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
205
138,270 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Fulton County
- Westlake High SchoolHigh · 2,056 students
- Roswell High SchoolHigh · 2,035 students
- Alpharetta High SchoolHigh · 2,024 students
- Milton High SchoolHigh · 1,999 students
- Langston Hughes High SchoolHigh · 1,891 students
- Johns Creek High SchoolHigh · 1,789 students
Other schools in Alpharetta
- Denmark High SchoolHigh · 2,527 students
- Alpharetta High SchoolHigh · 2,024 students
- Milton High SchoolHigh · 1,999 students
- Chattahoochee High SchoolHigh · 1,730 students
- Innovation AcademyHigh · 1,511 students
- DeSana Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,278 students
Other Hopewell Middle schools
One other US public school is named Hopewell Middle. Hopewell Middle School is the largest of the 2.
- Hopewell Middle SchoolROUND ROCK, TX · 1,202 students
Nearby schools
- Cogburn Woods Elementary School0.3 mi · 786
- Cambridge High School1.2 mi · 1,602
- Manning Oaks Elementary School1.3 mi · 764
- Alpharetta Elementary School1.8 mi · 498
- Innovation Academy2.0 mi · 1,511
- Alpharetta High School2.3 mi · 2,024
Frequently asked questions
About Hopewell Middle SchoolHow large is Hopewell Middle School?
Hopewell Middle School enrolls approximately 1,265 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Hopewell Middle School serve?
Hopewell Middle School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Hopewell Middle School?
Approximately 14.0:1 students per teacher at Hopewell Middle School.
What is the student diversity at Hopewell Middle School?
Student demographics at Hopewell Middle School are roughly 46% White, 16% Hispanic, 14% Black, 20% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is Hopewell Middle School public or private?
Hopewell Middle School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Fulton County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.