Academy of Hope Charter

Academy of Hope Charter is a very small elementary school that serves part of Conway, South Carolina. The school offers pre-K through 8 and enrolls 100 students. That puts enrollment 81% below the 526-student average for elementary schools in South Carolina.

Academy of Hope Charter sits within Horry 01, which has 55 schools and 48,662 students.

The student body at Academy of Hope Charter is 66% Black. Beyond that, enrollment is 19% White, 8% multiracial, and 6% Hispanic. The Black share of the county population is lower, at 12%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 52%.

Classroom staffing at Academy of Hope Charter totals 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 8.3:1. The average for elementary schools in South Carolina, 13.3:1, is higher.

The school is in Horry County, where the median household earns about $66,880 a year, about 27% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 9%. Academy of Hope Charter shares Horry County with 59 other public schools.

Measured in a straight line, Pee Dee Elementary is about 2.1 miles from Academy of Hope Charter. The five-mile area around Academy of Hope Charter holds 7 other public schools.

Its NCES locale code is Rural: Fringe: the school is in rural territory close to an urban area. As a charter school, Academy of Hope Charter is publicly funded and operates under a charter.

Enrollment figures show a decline of 37 students from 2020-21 to 2024-25. The number of students per teacher dropped from 10.5 to 8.3 over 4 years.

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