Chattanooga Preparatory School

Chattanooga Preparatory School is one of the small secondary schools in Chattanooga, Tennessee, one of the schools within Hamilton County, with 539 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 754 students per school, that is 29% below typical.

Hamilton County comprises 82 schools with combined enrollment of 45,981 students; Chattanooga Preparatory School is among them.

On demographics, Chattanooga Preparatory School logs that 51% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school lists 38% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 4% White. By comparison, Hamilton County as a whole is about 17% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Hamilton County put the typical household earns roughly $76,183 per year, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Hamilton County's 82 public schools (combined enrollment of about 45,981 students), Chattanooga Preparatory School is one campus in the mix.

Chattanooga Girls Leadership Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Chattanooga Preparatory School.

The campus sits in a city-core setting. Chattanooga Preparatory School is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Inside the community feed, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.