HOPE for Hyndman Charter School

HOPE for Hyndman Charter School, a micro-enrollment all-grades campus in Hyndman, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within HOPE for Hyndman CS, educates 121 students, covering grades K through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 93% below the state mean of about 1,819.

HOPE for Hyndman CS is the operating authority for HOPE for Hyndman Charter School, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

In terms of who attends, HOPE for Hyndman Charter School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (93%). The remainder comes out to 4% multiracial, 2% Native American. That composition is broadly in line with Bedford County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.5:1 average. An estimated 50% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Bedford County runs at roughly 65%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, On a poverty-adjusted basis, HOPE for Hyndman Charter School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 56.4%; actual is 27.2%, a gap of -29.1 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Bedford County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $59,992 per year, roughly 16% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. HOPE for Hyndman Charter School is one of 18 public schools in Bedford County (combined enrollment of about 5,951 students).

The closest other public school is Northeast Elementary, roughly 10.2 miles away. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts HOPE for Hyndman Charter School at 9th of 9; the average score across the group is 47.5%.

The school occupies a countryside site. HOPE for Hyndman Charter School is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 47%: 230 students in 2018 compared to 121 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 100% to 93% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 11.7:1 in 2018 to 9.7:1 in 2025.

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