The Need

All data above was gathered from the 2010 Census and/or Department of Education data.

As you can see, students living along the the Florida Street corridor are:

15x more likely to live in poverty.

13x more likely to be a minority.

15x more likely to have dropped out of high school.

13x less likely to have a college degree.

50x more likely to not have a car available to their family.

7-12x more likely to have an unemployed parent.

Equality of Opportunity

According to the Equality of Opportunity Project, which started in 2011 with a goal of ensuring the “American Dream” for all children, “A defining feature of the “American Dream” is upward income mobility: the ideal that children have a higher standard of living than their parents. Our work shows that children’s prospects of earning more than their parents have fallen from 90% to 50% over the past half century.”

Of the 100 metropolitan areas studied, the Piedmont of North Carolina had some of the lowest Economic Mobility:

Equality of Opportunity: What Hope Offers

Our students have an uphill battle when it comes to achieving their academic goals. We recognize that they face the challenges of poverty, racism, cultural bigotry, and lack of community access to needed services, among other challenges. Despite all of this, our families have big dreams and express incredible resilience on a daily basis.

Our role at Hope Academy GSO is to partner with families and helping their children achieve their academic dreams and goals. We do this through hiring highly qualified teachers; placing students in small, supportive classrooms; providing one-on-one and small group support in classrooms; and caring for the whole family through access to mental health services, food assistance, and more.

To serve our families well, it’s important that we understand their lived experiences. That’s why over half of our staff are non-white, and 25% of our staff live in Glenwood and surrounding communities. We are committed to growing in both cultural competence and academic best practices, ensuring our students receive the best education in Greensboro.