Zest Preparatory Academy School

Set in Douglasville, Georgia, Zest Preparatory Academy School is a minimally staffed elementary-level community, part of State Specialty Schools II- Zest Preparatory Academy School. It teaches 209 students across grades K through 5. By comparison, Georgia's public schools average about 605 students each, so Zest Preparatory Academy School sits 65% below that benchmark.

Zest Preparatory Academy School sits inside State Specialty Schools II- Zest Preparatory Academy School, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

On demographics, Zest Preparatory Academy School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (86%). Beyond that, the school reports 8% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 50%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.9:1. The state averages around 13.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 43% of students at Zest Preparatory Academy School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is south of Douglas County's rate of about 71%.

Around the school, census data for Douglas County shows median household income runs about $82,984, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Douglas County runs 37 public schools (combined enrollment of about 26,121 students), of which Zest Preparatory Academy School is one.

Brighten Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Zest Preparatory Academy School.

Zest Preparatory Academy School operates from a suburban location. Zest Preparatory Academy School is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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