The Hope Academy School

The Hope Academy School is a four-year high school of very small scale in LaGrange, Georgia, one of the schools within Troup County, works with 83 students in grades 6 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 1,120 students per school, that is 93% smaller than typical.

The Hope Academy School is one of 19 schools operated by Troup County, a district that teaches 12,262 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, The Hope Academy School reports that 78% of the student body identifies as Black. Beyond that, the school records 10% White, 7% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 36%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 8.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.2:1 average. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, The Hope Academy School is in the bottom 10% of Georgia public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 25.7%; The Hope Academy School posts 9.3%, -16.4 points below that line.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Troup County indicate median household earnings sit near $56,776, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. In all, Troup County runs 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,262 students), of which The Hope Academy School is one.

Nearest neighbor: LaGrange High School, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around The Hope Academy School. On composite proficiency, The Hope Academy School comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 32.4%.

The Hope Academy School operates from a town-center location.

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