HOPE Community Academy Middle

HOPE Community Academy Middle is a compact middle-grades school in SAINT PAUL, Minnesota, overseen by HOPE COMMUNITY ACADEMY. The school caters to 221 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 495 students each, so HOPE Community Academy Middle sits 55% below that benchmark.

HOPE COMMUNITY ACADEMY runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 799 students. HOPE Community Academy Middle is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, HOPE Community Academy Middle shows that nearly all students (93%) are Asian; the rest comes out to 4% Black. The wider county runs roughly 15% Asian, putting the school's mix noticeably more Asian than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school lists 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 90% of students at HOPE Community Academy Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Ramsey County runs at roughly 57%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, HOPE Community Academy Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 16.7%, the actual is 13.1%, a residual of -3.5 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Ramsey County indicate median household earnings sit near $81,568, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. HOPE Community Academy Middle is one of 302 public schools in Ramsey County (combined enrollment of about 94,437 students).

The closest other public school is HOPEStart Pre-K Program, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around HOPE Community Academy Middle. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), HOPE Community Academy Middle ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 21.9%.

HOPE Community Academy Middle operates from a downtown location. As a public charter, HOPE Community Academy Middle runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

On this page, members of the HOPE Community Academy Middle community share and discuss enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.