Antioch Elementary School

Antioch Elementary School operates as a low-enrollment primary school in Dalton, Georgia, operated by Whitfield County. Current enrollment sits at 446 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 26% leaner than the state mean of about 605.

Across the 22 schools in Whitfield County (11,942 students total), Antioch Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Antioch Elementary School reports that 68% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school lists 27% White, 2% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 37%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.3:1 average. Roughly 100% of students at Antioch Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Whitfield County runs at roughly 83%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Antioch Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 25.7%; this one delivers 31.1%.

In the broader community, census data for Whitfield County shows the typical household earns roughly $67,070 per year, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Whitfield County's 33 public schools (combined enrollment of about 19,570 students), Antioch Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Eastbrook Middle School, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Antioch Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Antioch Elementary School comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 26.7%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Antioch Elementary School has contracted 14%, going from 517 students in 2018 to 446 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 33% to 27% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 11.2:1 today.

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