Hope Community Charter School

Hope Community Charter School is one of the rural-scale K-5 schools in Camden, New Jersey, overseen by Hope Community Charter School, with 115 students on its rolls from grades K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 405 students per school, that is 72% smaller than typical.

Hope Community Charter School is a school of Hope Community Charter School, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Hope Community Charter School shows that the most-represented group is Hispanic (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school records 46% Black. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.0:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 89% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Camden County runs at roughly 50%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Hope Community Charter School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 17.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 15.2%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Camden County shows the typical household earns roughly $88,755 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Camden County runs 158 public schools (combined enrollment of about 82,104 students), of which Hope Community Charter School is one.

The closest other public school is KIPP: Cooper Norcross A New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Hope Community Charter School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Hope Community Charter School at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 15.1%.

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

Looking at the recent track record. Hope Community Charter School's enrollment has edged down 44% since 2018, when it stood at 206 (now 115). The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 8.4:1 in 2018 to 12.0:1 today.

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