Alpharetta High School

Alpharetta High School operates as a heavily attended four-year high school in Alpharetta, Georgia, overseen by Fulton County. Current enrollment sits at 2,024 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 81% bigger than the state mean of about 1,120.

Alpharetta High School is one of 107 schools operated by Fulton County, a district that educates 87,563 students overall.

On demographics, Alpharetta High School shows that the largest single group is White at 32%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 32% Asian, 17% Black, 15% Hispanic, 5% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 116 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.2:1, putting Alpharetta High School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 15% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Fulton County (around 62%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Alpharetta High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 69.5%, the actual is 69.0%, a residual of -0.6 points.

Around the school, census data for Fulton County shows median household earnings sit near $95,292, about 59% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Alpharetta High School is one of 205 public schools in Fulton County (combined enrollment of about 138,270 students).

Creek View Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Alpharetta High School comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 76.6%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Alpharetta High School's enrollment has ticked down 9% since 2018, when it stood at 2,233 (now 2,024). Over the same period, the White share fell from 45% to 32%.

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