Sharp Park Academy

Located at 766 PARK RD, in JACKSON, Michigan, Sharp Park Academy is a medium-sized K-5 school that teaches 337 students (grades K through 5), part of Jackson Public Schools.

Jackson Public Schools runs 12 schools in total, collectively educating 4,310 students. Sharp Park Academy is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Sharp Park Academy logs that the most-represented group is White (47%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 28% Black, 13% multiracial, 7% Hispanic, 5% Asian. By comparison, Jackson County as a whole is about 83% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.5:1. The state averages around 15.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 60% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Sharp Park Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.6%, the actual is 50.3%, a residual of +10.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Jackson County indicate the typical household earns roughly $66,073 per year, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Jackson County runs 68 public schools (combined enrollment of about 21,681 students), of which Sharp Park Academy is one.

Fourth Street Learning Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Sharp Park Academy at 1st of 4; the average score across the group is 28.3%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 23%: 275 students in 2018 compared to 337 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 19.3:1 in 2018 to 17.5:1 today.

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