Enrollment
103
High
DISTRICT 702 · STATE 410
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·TOPEKA PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 201226001596
Hope Street Charter Academy
1900 SW Hope Street, Topeka, KS 66604 · (785) 438-4280 · Shawnee County
GRADES 10–12HIGH12-CITYCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL103 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 12% of Kansas public high schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Kansas public high schools
Student : Teacher
6.3:1
16 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.2:1 · STATE 11.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
79%
81 students
DISTRICT 79% · STATE 51%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 10 | 21 | 20% |
| Grade 11 | 34 | 33% |
| Grade 12 | 48 | 47% |
Student demographics
69%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 72% · STATE 58% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
KAP 2024-25 . % Meeting + ExceedingEnglish Language Arts
16.7%
KS avg 44.5%
Math
10.0%
KS avg 38.8%
What this means: On the KAP, Kansas's statewide test, about 17 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 10 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Kansas schools, those numbers are about 45 and 39.
KAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 16.7% | 10.0% |
| 2023-24 | 20.0% | 0.0% |
% Meeting + Exceeding, all students and all tested grades. Kansas set new KAP cut scores in spring 2025, so results from 2023-24 and earlier are not comparable with later years.
Source: KAP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
9.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
24.5%
based on KS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-14.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 10% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 25% typical for Kansas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Kansas's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Hope Street Charter Academy
Hope Street Charter Academy's state test result (9.8% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hope Street Charter Academy this school | 103 | 78.6% | 9.8% |
| Field Kindley High Coffeyville | 451 | 71.2% | 14.7% |
| Opportunity Academy Newton | 53 | 84.9% | 7.4% |
| Lyons High School Lyons | 221 | 73.3% | 19.1% |
| Macksville High Macksville | 81 | 71.6% | 24.4% |
| Chisholm Life Skills Center Wichita | 96 | 85.4% | N/A |
Matched among Kansas high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Hope Street Charter Academy ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Kansas | In Shawnee County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 9.8% | #255 of 262 | #8 of 9 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 10.0% | #255 of 262 | #8 of 9 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 16.7% | #255 of 262 | #9 of 9 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 103 | #260 of 332 | #10 of 11 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 78.6% | #11 of 263 | #3 of 10 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
103
+23 (+29%) vs 2020
-26% since 2010-11, when it was 139
Student : Teacher
6.3:1
was 4.7:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 103 | 16.4 | 6.3:1 | 79% (81) |
| 2023-24 | 84 | 15.5 | 5.4:1 | 82% (69) |
| 2022-23 | 88 | 16 | 5.5:1 | 81% (71) |
| 2020-21 | 80 | 17 | 4.7:1 | 88% (70) |
| 2017-18 | 119 | 17.5 | 6.8:1 | 87% (104) |
| 2015-16 | 137 | 19 | 7.2:1 | 72% (98) |
| 2010-11 | 139 | 16 | 8.7:1 | 71% (98) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Hope Street Charter Academy.
Since 2017-18: students down 13% (119 to 103); teachers down 6% (17.5 to 16.4).
About Hope Street Charter Academy
Hope Street Charter Academy operates as a small high school in Topeka, Kansas. Students in grades 10 through 12 attend, and enrollment is 103 students. The typical figure for high schools in Kansas is about 410 students.
Topeka Public Schools counts 11,695 students in its 25 schools, and Hope Street Charter Academy is one of them.
No single group makes up more than half of enrollment at Hope Street Charter Academy. The largest is White students, at 43%. The next largest groups are 31% Hispanic, 14% multiracial, and 12% Black. In Shawnee County overall, about 75% of residents are White. Pick two students at random and there is a 69% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The school reported 16.4 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25 and a ratio of 6.3:1. That is 5.6 students per teacher below the 11.9:1 average for high schools in Kansas. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 79%. That is 25 points above the 54% average for public schools in Shawnee County.
allk12 grades Hope Street Charter Academy a D. The grade compares the school only with Kansas public high schools, because each state gives its own test.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, Hope Street Charter Academy would score about 24.5%. It scores 9.8%, 14.8 points below that figure.
In the county around the school, Shawnee County, the median household income is $67,104, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 32% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 9%. Shawnee County is home to 54 public schools and about 26,294 public school students.
Topeka West High is the closest public school, about 0.7 miles away in a straight line. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. The school's 9.8% average proficiency ranks 9th among 9 nearby schools.
By NCES locale, the school is City: Mid-size, or inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000. This is a charter school, which is a tuition-free public school operating under a charter.
Compared with 2020-21, the school had 23 more students in 2024-25. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 4.7:1; by 2024-25 it was 6.3:1.
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Shawnee County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
178,025
Census ACS
Median income
$67,104
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
32%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
54
26,294 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Topeka Public Schools
- Topeka HighHigh · 1,578 students
- Topeka West HighHigh · 971 students
- Highland Park HighHigh · 835 students
- Jardine ElementaryElementary · 729 students
- Ross ElementaryElementary · 563 students
- Jardine Middle SchoolMiddle · 508 students
Other schools in Topeka
- Washburn Rural HighHigh · 1,878 students
- Topeka HighHigh · 1,578 students
- Seaman HighHigh · 1,190 students
- Topeka West HighHigh · 971 students
- Washburn Rural Middle SchoolMiddle · 966 students
- Highland Park HighHigh · 835 students
Nearby schools
- Topeka West High0.7 mi · 971
- Whitson Elem0.8 mi · 416
- McCarter Elem0.9 mi · 401
- McClure Elem1.1 mi · 301
- McEachron Elem1.3 mi · 422
- Randolph Elem1.4 mi · 346
Frequently asked questions
About Hope Street Charter AcademyHow many students attend Hope Street Charter Academy?
Hope Street Charter Academy enrolls approximately 103 students in grades 10-12.
What grades does Hope Street Charter Academy serve?
Hope Street Charter Academy serves grades 10-12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Hope Street Charter Academy?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Hope Street Charter Academy is approximately 6.3:1 (16 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Hope Street Charter Academy?
Student demographics at Hope Street Charter Academy are roughly 43% White, 31% Hispanic, 12% Black, 14% Two or more.
What district is Hope Street Charter Academy in?
Hope Street Charter Academy is part of Topeka Public Schools.
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