HOPE Community Academy High School

HOPE Community Academy High School is one of the one-room-style secondary schools in SAINT PAUL, Minnesota, operated by HOPE COMMUNITY ACADEMY, with 124 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 371 students each, so HOPE Community Academy High School sits 67% leaner than that benchmark.

Across the 4 schools in HOPE COMMUNITY ACADEMY (799 students total), HOPE Community Academy High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, HOPE Community Academy High School shows that 93% of students identify as Asian, making the school strongly Asian-majority. The remainder reads as 4% multiracial. That is noticeably more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 15%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 16.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 85% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Ramsey County's rate of about 57%.

After controlling for student poverty, HOPE Community Academy High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 19.1%; this one delivers 23.1%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Ramsey County indicate median household income runs about $81,568, roughly 46% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. HOPE Community Academy High School is one of 302 public schools in Ramsey County (combined enrollment of about 94,437 students).

Nearest neighbor: HOPEStart Pre-K Program, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around HOPE Community Academy High School. On composite proficiency, HOPE Community Academy High School comes 2nd of 5 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 19.4%.

HOPE Community Academy High School operates from an urban location. HOPE Community Academy High School is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

On this page, members of the HOPE Community Academy High School community share and discuss pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.