College Prep and Leadership Academy

College Prep and Leadership Academy, a mid-tier combined-grade school in Jamestown, North Carolina, overseen by The College Preparatory and Leadership A, instructs 890 students, covering grades K through 12. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 731 students each, so College Prep and Leadership Academy sits 22% larger than that benchmark.

Operationally, College Prep and Leadership Academy answers to The College Preparatory and Leadership A, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

Demographically, College Prep and Leadership Academy logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (88%). Beyond that, the school reports 8% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 34%.

On the resource side, On paper, College Prep and Leadership Academy has 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 46.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.1:1, putting College Prep and Leadership Academy higher than the state norm the norm. Around 98% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Guilford County's rate of about 89%.

In the area at large, Guilford County reports that median household income runs about $68,642, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Guilford County's 143 public schools (combined enrollment of about 79,539 students), College Prep and Leadership Academy is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Haynes Inman Education Center, around 1.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a rural site. As a public charter, College Prep and Leadership Academy runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at College Prep and Leadership Academy has climbed 44%, going from 620 students in 2018 to 890 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 7% to 3% across the same window. Class-load math has grew: from 30.3:1 in 2018 to 46.3:1 in 2025.

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