Hopewell Junior School

Hopewell Junior School is a 6-8 campus of average-sized scale in West Chester, Ohio, part of Lakota Local, teacheing 540 students in grades 7 through 8.

Hopewell Junior School is one of 25 schools operated by Lakota Local, a district that caters to 18,806 students overall.

Demographically, Hopewell Junior School lists that the largest single group is White, at 56% of enrollment. The remainder is composed of 16% Black, 11% Asian, 9% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 76% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 24.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.0:1, putting Hopewell Junior School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 38% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Hopewell Junior School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 74.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 76.4%.

Across the wider county, Butler County reports that median household earnings sit near $81,590, about 33% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Hopewell Junior School is one of 90 public schools in Butler County (combined enrollment of about 59,107 students).

Hopewell Early Childhood School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Hopewell Junior School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, below the local average of 76.7%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Over the past 7-year window. Hopewell Junior School's enrollment has ticked down 3% since 2018, when it stood at 555 (now 540). Over the same period, the White share fell from 65% to 56%.

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