Arts & College Preparatory Academy

As an intimate secondary school in Columbus, Ohio, Arts & College Preparatory Academy caters to 473 students from grades 7 through 12, one of the schools within Arts & College Preparatory Academy.

Arts & College Preparatory Academy is the operating authority for Arts & College Preparatory Academy, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Arts & College Preparatory Academy records that the most-represented group is White (45%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school lists 35% Black, 13% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 59% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Arts & College Preparatory Academy reports 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.7:1 average. About 52% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Franklin County's rate of about 41%.

With demographic context factored in, Arts & College Preparatory Academy is in the bottom 10% of Ohio public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 69.3%; Arts & College Preparatory Academy posts 51.3%, -18.1 points below that line.

Zooming out to the county, Franklin County reports that the typical household earns roughly $75,176 per year, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Franklin County runs 402 public schools (combined enrollment of about 195,359 students), of which Arts & College Preparatory Academy is one.

Performance Academy Eastland is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Arts & College Preparatory Academy operates from a city-core location. Arts & College Preparatory Academy is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 18%: 401 students in 2018 compared to 473 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 7% to 13%. Class-load math has loosened: from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 16.3:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.