Utopian Academy for the Arts High School

Utopian Academy for the Arts High School, a micro-enrollment senior high in Marrow, Georgia, overseen by Clayton County, educates 291 students, covering grades 9 through 12. That puts it 74% leaner than the typical public school in Georgia, which averages around 1,120 students.

Clayton County runs 68 schools in total, collectively educating 51,326 students. Utopian Academy for the Arts High School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Utopian Academy for the Arts High School lists that 90% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Other groups include 6% Hispanic. By comparison, Clayton County as a whole is about 69% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Utopian Academy for the Arts High School shows 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.2:1, putting Utopian Academy for the Arts High School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 78% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below Clayton County's rate of about 92%.

With demographic context factored in, Utopian Academy for the Arts High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.2%, the actual is 23.6%, a residual of -13.7 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Clayton County put the typical household earns roughly $59,806 per year, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. In all, Clayton County runs 73 public schools (combined enrollment of about 63,156 students), of which Utopian Academy for the Arts High School is one.

The closest other public school is Forest Park Middle School, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Utopian Academy for the Arts High School. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Utopian Academy for the Arts High School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 21.8%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site. Utopian Academy for the Arts High School is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Inside the community feed, members of the Utopian Academy for the Arts High School community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.