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Which teacher or staff member at Asa Hilliard Elementary School deserves more recognition?
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Enrollment
474
Elementary
DISTRICT 616 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FULTON COUNTY·NCES 130228001036
Asa Hilliard Elementary School
3353 Mount Olive Rd, East Point, GA 30344 · (470) 254-8050 · Fulton County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL474 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 19% of Georgia public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C-Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Georgia public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
11.3:1
42 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.2:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
474 students
DISTRICT 58% · STATE 74%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 39 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 61 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 80 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 68 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 79 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 71 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 76 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (61) is 20% smaller than its 5th grade class (76).
Student demographics
27%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 72% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on published attendance-zone data from Fulton County. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedEnglish Language Arts
19.2%
GA avg 40.1% . -2.5pp since 2021
Math
16.8%
GA avg 44.6% . -5.4pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 19 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 17 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Georgia schools, those numbers are about 40 and 45. Reading and writing scores are down about 2 points since 2021, while math scores are down about 5 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 19.2% | 16.8% |
| 2023-24 | 28.0% | 18.7% |
| 2022-23 | 24.8% | 15.8% |
| 2021-22 | 21.6% | 22.2% |
% Proficient or Distinguished, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Georgia Milestones. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
23.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
25.7%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 24% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 26% typical for Georgia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Georgia's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Asa Hilliard Elementary School
Asa Hilliard Elementary School's state test result (23.8% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asa Hilliard Elementary School this school | 474 | 100.0% | 23.8% |
| College Park Elementary College Park | 475 | 100.0% | 18.8% |
| West Clayton Elementary School College Park | 464 | 100.0% | 10.9% |
| Miles Elementary School Atlanta | 499 | 100.0% | 15.3% |
| Redan Elementary School Lithonia | 525 | 100.0% | 18.9% |
| Woodridge Elementary School Stone Mountain | 444 | 100.0% | 18.9% |
Matched among Georgia elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Asa Hilliard Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Fulton County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 23.8% | #955 of 1,208 | #83 of 113 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 16.8% | #1,125 of 1,215 ▼ 62 | #105 of 113 ▼ 10 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 19.2% | #1,035 of 1,215 ▼ 193 | #91 of 113 ▼ 20 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -4.0pp | #180 of 1,183 | #3 of 110 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 474 | #918 of 1,324 | #78 of 120 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.3:1 | #152 of 1,301 | #35 of 118 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 27.0% | #1,111 of 1,301 | #64 of 118 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #236 of 1,312 | #52 of 119 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -27.2% | #119 of 854 | #17 of 92 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
474
-14 (-3%) vs 2020
-23% since 1990-91, when it was 619
Student : Teacher
11.3:1
was 11.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 474 | 42 | 11.3:1 | 100% (474) |
| 2023-24 | 432 | 39.9 | 10.8:1 | 100% (432) |
| 2022-23 | 472 | 41 | 11.5:1 | 100% (472) |
| 2020-21 | 488 | 44 | 11.1:1 | 100% (488) |
| 2017-18 | 651 | 50 | 13.0:1 | 100% (651) |
| 2015-16 | 742 | 53 | 14.0:1 | 100% (739) |
| 2010-11 | 512 | 42 | 12.2:1 | 88% (448) |
| 2000-01 | 544 | 42 | 12.9:1 | 93% (508) |
| 1990-91 | 619 | 38 | 16.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Asa Hilliard Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 27% (651 to 474); teachers down 16% (50 to 42).
About Asa Hilliard Elementary School
Students in East Point, Georgia, attend Asa Hilliard Elementary School, a small elementary school. Students in pre-K through 5 attend the school, which enrolls 474 students. For comparison, elementary schools in Georgia average about 605 students.
Fulton County oversees Asa Hilliard Elementary School and 106 other schools, with 87,563 students in total.
Black students are the large majority at Asa Hilliard Elementary School, with 85% of enrollment. The remaining shares are 11% Hispanic and 3% multiracial. Census estimates put the Black share of Fulton County's population at about 43%. By the diversity index, Asa Hilliard Elementary School comes in at 27%.
The school has about 11.3 students per teacher and 42 full-time-equivalent teachers. That ratio is under the 13.3:1 average for elementary schools in Georgia. Federal records put free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at 100%. Public schools in Fulton County average 62%.
Asa Hilliard Elementary School is graded C- by allk12, scoring above 19% of Georgia public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
The school's average proficiency rate on state tests is 23.8%. For its free or reduced-price lunch share, the predicted value is 25.7%.
Across Fulton County, median household income is about $95,292, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 59%, and roughly 8% of residents are in poverty. Asa Hilliard Elementary School is among the 205 public schools in Fulton County.
The shortest distance from Asa Hilliard Elementary School to another public school is about 0.2 miles, to Woodland Middle School. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Asa Hilliard Elementary School places 3rd of 6 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
Locale: Suburb: Large. In NCES terms, the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The number of students dropped from 488 to 474 over 4 years.
Topics for discussion here include school safety, transportation, and start times. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Fulton County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,076,561
Census ACS
Median income
$95,292
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
59%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
205
138,270 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Fulton County
- Westlake High SchoolHigh · 2,056 students
- Roswell High SchoolHigh · 2,035 students
- Alpharetta High SchoolHigh · 2,024 students
- Milton High SchoolHigh · 1,999 students
- Langston Hughes High SchoolHigh · 1,891 students
- Johns Creek High SchoolHigh · 1,789 students
Other schools in East Point
- Tri-Cities High SchoolHigh · 1,748 students
- Woodland Middle SchoolMiddle · 937 students
- Paul D. West Middle SchoolMiddle · 814 students
- Hamilton E. Holmes ElementaryElementary · 587 students
- Brookview Elementary SchoolElementary · 425 students
- Resurgence Hall Charter SchoolElementary · 408 students
Nearby schools
- Woodland Middle School0.2 mi · 937
- RISE Preparatory Charter School0.9 mi · 313
- Continental Colony Elementary School1.2 mi · 368
- College Park Elementary1.4 mi · 475
- Fulton Leadership Academy1.4 mi · 166
- Brookview Elementary School1.6 mi · 425
Frequently asked questions
About Asa Hilliard Elementary SchoolHow large is Asa Hilliard Elementary School?
Asa Hilliard Elementary School enrolls approximately 474 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Asa Hilliard Elementary School serve?
Asa Hilliard Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Asa Hilliard Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Asa Hilliard Elementary School is approximately 11.3:1 (42 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Asa Hilliard Elementary School?
Student demographics at Asa Hilliard Elementary School are roughly 0% White, 11% Hispanic, 85% Black, 0% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees Asa Hilliard Elementary School?
Asa Hilliard Elementary School is overseen by Fulton County in Fulton County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.