Lovejoy High School

Lovejoy High School, a large four-year high school in Hampton, Georgia, one of the schools within Clayton County, hosts 2,049 students, covering grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 83% larger than the state mean of about 1,120.

Lovejoy High School is one of 68 schools operated by Clayton County, a district that enrolls 51,326 students overall.

Demographically, Lovejoy High School records that 81% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority; the rest is composed of 14% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 69%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 109 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.2:1 average. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Lovejoy High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 25.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 14.3%.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Clayton County put median household earnings sit near $59,806, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. Across Clayton County's 73 public schools (combined enrollment of about 63,156 students), Lovejoy High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Kemp Primary, around 1.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Lovejoy High School comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 25.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lovejoy High School has expanded 12%, going from 1,835 students in 2018 to 2,049 in 2025.

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