Holly Park Academy

As a reasonably sized primary school in LANSING, Michigan, Holly Park Academy hosts 478 students from grades K through 8, run under Holly Park Academy. Compared to the state average of about 369 students per school, that is 30% bigger than typical.

Operationally, Holly Park Academy answers to Holly Park Academy, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

Demographically, Holly Park Academy lists that the most-represented group is Black (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 25% Hispanic, 15% multiracial, 7% White, 4% Asian. By comparison, Ingham County as a whole is about 11% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.0:1. The state averages around 15.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 91% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Ingham County runs at roughly 49%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Holly Park Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.9%, the actual is 38.6%, a residual of +12.8 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Ingham County put the typical household earns roughly $65,526 per year, about 41% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Ingham County's 100 public schools (combined enrollment of about 37,914 students), Holly Park Academy is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Ingham AcademyFamily Center, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Holly Park Academy.

The school occupies a metropolitan site. Holly Park Academy operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Looking at the recent track record. Holly Park Academy's enrollment has decreased 26% since 2018, when it stood at 646 (now 478). The White share of enrollment shrank from 21% to 7% over that span.

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