Liberation Academy

Located at 1743 Hardin Ave, in College Park, Georgia, Liberation Academy is a tiny middle school that teaches 132 students (grades 5 through 8), operated by State Specialty Schools II- Liberation Academy. That puts it 83% leaner than the typical public school in Georgia, which averages around 763 students.

Liberation Academy is a school of State Specialty Schools II- Liberation Academy, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

On demographics, Liberation Academy records that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (96%). Beyond that, the school reports 3% Hispanic. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 43%.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.1:1, putting Liberation Academy tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 98% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Fulton County runs at roughly 62%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Fulton County put median household income runs about $95,292, about 59% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Fulton County runs 205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 138,270 students), of which Liberation Academy is one.

Nearest neighbor: Promise Career Institute School, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Liberation Academy operates from a bedroom-community location. Liberation Academy operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

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