Early College Academy

Early College Academy is one of the rural-scale four-year high schools in Columbus, Ohio, operated by Early College Academy, with 114 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Ohio's public schools average about 565 students each, so Early College Academy sits 80% leaner than that benchmark.

Early College Academy is a school of Early College Academy, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

Looking at the student body, Early College Academy lists that the largest single group is Black, at 75% of enrollment. The remainder breaks down as 16% Hispanic, 6% White, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 23% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.7:1 average. About 44% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Early College Academy sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 72.2%; actual is 9.0%, a gap of -63.3 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Franklin County indicate the typical household earns roughly $75,176 per year, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Franklin County runs 402 public schools (combined enrollment of about 195,359 students), of which Early College Academy is one.

Nearest neighbor: Columbus Downtown High School, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Early College Academy operates from an urban location. Early College 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. Early College Academy's enrollment has shrank 30% since 2018, when it stood at 162 (now 114). The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 7% to 16% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.5:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 today.

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