Chattanooga Girls Leadership Academy

Chattanooga Girls Leadership Academy, a cozy senior high in Chattanooga, Tennessee, overseen by Hamilton County, caters to 354 students, covering grades 6 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 53% below the state mean of about 754.

Hamilton County runs 82 schools in total, collectively educating 45,981 students. Chattanooga Girls Leadership Academy is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Chattanooga Girls Leadership Academy logs that 54% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest breaks down as 38% Black, 5% multiracial, 3% White. The wider county runs roughly 8% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Hamilton County) shows that median household earnings sit near $76,183, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Chattanooga Girls Leadership Academy is one of 82 public schools in Hamilton County (combined enrollment of about 45,981 students).

The closest other public school is Chattanooga Preparatory School, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area. Chattanooga Girls Leadership Academy 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. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Chattanooga Girls Leadership Academy has held roughly steady, going from 359 students in 2018 to 354 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 32% to 54% across the same window.

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