Original Research by School Decision on Bradfield Center - Ault Academy
Bradfield Center - Ault Academy is a small public school in LaGrange serving grades five through twelve, with just over a handful of students across its grade span. The enrollment breaks down heavily toward the high school grades, where the school has moderate numbers, while the middle grades are tiny. This size and composition shape everything about the place.
The school serves a student body where a substantial majority qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, and the racial composition is mixed, with about half the enrollment white, a meaningful share Black, and smaller groups identifying as multiracial or Hispanic. The school's setting is a regular public school run by Troup County, located on East Depot Street in LaGrange, a west Georgia county seat with a mixed manufacturing and professional economy anchored by employers like Kia, Duracell, and Caterpillar, and marked by recent growth from housing development and the relocation of Remington Firearms.
Academic results for the school are available only for the current school year, and they are very limited in what they show. State testing data for grades six through eight in English language arts and math show proficiency rates of a low share of those tested; science and social studies results for grade eight are also available but similarly constrain the picture. The school tested only small numbers of students in each grade, making any single-year snapshot preliminary. No multi-year trend data is available to show whether performance is stable, improving, or declining. No graduation rate data is available; this may reflect either that the high school is too new or small to report reliably, or that comparability issues exist in how this particular school reports. A parent may want to look into this further with the school directly to understand academic trajectory and support.
The school has not provided or made public detailed information about course offerings, specialized programs, or counseling and support services. The data sections of this profile carry the raw enrollment and demographic figures; this narrative reflects what can be said from that evidence without adding guesses about a school this small or underdocumented in publicly available sources.
Bradfield Center - Ault Academy appears to be a micro-school environment, likely serving students with particular needs or circumstances. Its very small cohorts, its concentration in high school grades, and its location in a regular school designation suggest it may function as an alternative or specialized pathway within Troup County, though the specific mission or student population served is not spelled out in available public data. For a family considering this school, direct contact with the administration about the school's purpose, academic programming, support services, and outcomes would be essential to understanding what this environment offers and whether it fits a student's needs.
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