Hope Street Charter Academy

Hope Street Charter Academy operates as an one-room-style high school in Topeka, Kansas, part of Topeka Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 103 students spanning grades 10 through 12. By comparison, Kansas's public schools average about 410 students each, so Hope Street Charter Academy sits 75% leaner than that benchmark.

Topeka Public Schools comprises 25 schools with combined enrollment of 11,695 students; Hope Street Charter Academy is among them.

On demographics, Hope Street Charter Academy shows that the most-represented group is White (43%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder reads as 31% Hispanic, 14% multiracial, 12% Black. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 75%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 6.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 11.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 79% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Shawnee County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Hope Street Charter Academy sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 24.5%; this one delivers 9.8%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Shawnee County shows median household income runs about $67,104, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Hope Street Charter Academy is one of 54 public schools in Shawnee County (combined enrollment of about 26,294 students).

Topeka West High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Hope Street Charter Academy comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 32.8%.

Hope Street Charter Academy operates from an urban location. Hope Street Charter Academy is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 13%: 119 students in 2018 compared to 103 in 2025.

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