Hurricane Transition Academy

Hurricane Transition Academy is one of the one-room-style 9-12 campuss in Fitzgerald, Georgia, run under Ben Hill County, with 79 students on its rolls from grades 5 through 12. That puts it 93% leaner than the typical public school in Georgia, which averages around 1,120 students.

Within Ben Hill County, which oversees 5 schools and 2,910 students, Hurricane Transition Academy is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Hurricane Transition Academy shows that Black students make up the majority at 58%. Other groups include 32% White, 8% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Ben Hill County as a whole is about 38% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Hurricane Transition Academy has 3 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.2:1, putting Hurricane Transition Academy higher than the state norm the norm. Around 62% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Ben Hill County's rate of about 99%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Hurricane Transition Academy is in the bottom 10% of Georgia public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 45.3%; Hurricane Transition Academy posts 0.0%, -45.3 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, census data for Ben Hill County shows median household income runs about $41,758, 13% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 20%. Hurricane Transition Academy is one of 5 public schools in Ben Hill County (combined enrollment of about 2,910 students).

The closest other public school is Ben Hill Elementary School, roughly 2.3 miles away. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Hurricane Transition Academy ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 34.1%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

On this page, members of the Hurricane Transition Academy community share and discuss sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.