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Mt. Hope High School
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Mt. Hope High School
Mt. Hope High School operates as a mid-sized high school in Bristol, Rhode Island, operated by Bristol Warren. Current enrollment sits at 787 students spanning grades 9 through 12.
Bristol Warren comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 2,627 students; Mt. Hope High School is among them.
Looking at the student body, Mt. Hope High School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (83%). Beyond that, the school reports 7% Hispanic, 5% multiracial.
Looking at school resources, On paper, Mt. Hope High School has 63 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 40% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Bristol County (around 28%), the school's rate is north of typical.
In the area at large, community-level numbers for Bristol County indicate the typical household earns roughly $114,490 per year, roughly 53% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Bristol County runs 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,234 students), of which Mt. Hope High School is one.
Nearest neighbor: Guiteras School, around 0.8 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.
The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 16%: 937 students in 2018 compared to 787 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 89% to 83% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 today.
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