Allen Jay Middle - A Preparatory Academy

Located at 1201 East Fairfield Rd, in High Point, North Carolina, Allen Jay Middle - A Preparatory Academy is a low-enrollment middle-grades school that teaches 392 students (grades 5 through 8), run under Guilford County Schools. Enrollment runs roughly 35% smaller than the state mean of about 605.

Guilford County Schools runs 123 schools in total, collectively educating 68,535 students. Allen Jay Middle - A Preparatory Academy is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Allen Jay Middle - A Preparatory Academy reports that 65% of the student body identifies as Black. Beyond that, the school shows 14% Hispanic, 9% White, 6% Asian, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Guilford County as a whole is about 34% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Allen Jay Middle - A Preparatory Academy has 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 99% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Guilford County runs at roughly 89%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Allen Jay Middle - A Preparatory Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.7%, the actual is 45.9%, a residual of -2.8 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Guilford County shows the typical household earns roughly $68,642 per year, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Allen Jay Middle - A Preparatory Academy is one of 143 public schools in Guilford County (combined enrollment of about 79,539 students).

The closest other public school is Allen Jay Elementary, roughly 0.6 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Allen Jay Middle - A Preparatory Academy comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 51.7%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Allen Jay Middle - A Preparatory Academy has remained close to its prior level, going from 395 students in 2018 to 392 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 21% to 9%.

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