Amana Academy School

Amana Academy School is a K-5 school of moderately sized scale in Alpharetta, Georgia, run under Fulton County, instructing 667 students in grades K through 8.

Fulton County runs 107 schools in total, collectively educating 87,563 students. Amana Academy School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Amana Academy School lists that the largest single group is Black at 35%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder is composed of 24% Asian, 19% White, 15% Hispanic, 6% multiracial.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.3:1, putting Amana Academy School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 48% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Fulton County (around 62%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Amana Academy School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 52.8%; this one delivers 64.4%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Fulton County) logs that median household income runs about $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%. Amana Academy School is one of 205 public schools in Fulton County (combined enrollment of about 138,270 students).

The closest other public school is Innovation Academy, roughly 0.6 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Amana Academy School. On composite proficiency, Amana Academy School comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 65.6%.

Amana Academy School operates from a metropolitan location. Amana Academy School operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Over the past 7-year window. Amana Academy School's enrollment has ticked down 5% since 2018, when it stood at 699 (now 667). Asian enrollment moved from 15% to 24% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 19.0:1 in 2018 to 11.7:1 today.

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