Guilford Preparatory Academy

Guilford Preparatory Academy is a mid-sized elementary school for students in Greensboro, North Carolina. Its enrollment is 672 students, spread over kindergarten through 8. That compares with an average of about 467 students for elementary schools in North Carolina.

Guilford Preparatory Academy operates as its own local education agency.

Roughly 82% of students at Guilford Preparatory Academy are Black. Other groups make up 10% Hispanic and 6% multiracial. The school's Black share is 48 points above the 34% share among Guilford County residents. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 31%.

Its ratio of 17.6:1 is based on 38.2 full-time-equivalent teachers. Elementary schools in North Carolina average 14.9:1, 2.7 fewer students per teacher than here. The share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 100%. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Guilford County is 89%.

Guilford County is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $68,642 a year, roughly 39% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Public schools in Guilford County number 143, with about 79,539 students.

Guilford Preparatory Academy is about 0.4 miles from Aggie Academy, its nearest public school. Guilford Preparatory Academy has at least 8 other public schools within five miles.

For locale, NCES codes Guilford Preparatory Academy as Rural: Fringe. Guilford Preparatory Academy is a publicly funded charter school.

The 2020-21 count was 397 students and the 2024-25 count was 672. A difference that large may reflect a change in which grades the school serves. Federal data show the ratio rising from 12.4:1 to 17.6:1.

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