HOPE COMMUNITY ACADEMY

Hope Community Academy is an open, independent public charter district headquartered at 720 Payne Avenue in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Positioned within a large city setting in the greater Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington metropolitan area, the district operates four schools offering a complete educational pathway from prekindergarten through 12th grade. Across these grade levels, the district serves a total enrollment of 799 students, comprising 419 male and 380 female learners. The student body is predominantly made up of 746 Asian students, alongside 25 Black students, 14 Hispanic students, 10 multiracial students, and 4 White students, with robust student membership distributed across its primary, middle, and high school grade levels.

To foster student achievement and maintain daily operations, Hope Community Academy employs a substantial workforce totaling 220.88 full-time equivalent (FTE) staff members. Classroom instruction is led by a teaching force of 152.08 FTE teachers, who work alongside 16.88 FTE instructional aides to provide targeted learning support. The district's educational framework is further reinforced by 51.92 FTE support staff members dedicated to student and school services. Functioning as its own local educational agency for federal programs, Hope Community Academy presents an active urban academic community for local families, students, and educational researchers, with resources accessible via its website at hope-school.org.