Atha Road Elementary School

Atha Road Elementary School is one of the middle-of-the-pack primary schools in Monroe, Georgia, run under Walton County, with 771 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 27% bigger than the typical public school in Georgia, which averages around 605 students.

Across the 15 schools in Walton County (14,783 students total), Atha Road Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Atha Road Elementary School reports that 60% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder is composed of 22% Black, 9% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 70% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Atha Road Elementary School has 56 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 60% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Atha Road Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 46.6%; this one delivers 44.1%.

In the area at large, Walton County reports that median household earnings sit near $84,945, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Walton County runs 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 16,815 students), of which Atha Road Elementary School is one.

Monroe Area High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 3.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Atha Road Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Atha Road Elementary School comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 49.7%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 8%: 840 students in 2018 compared to 771 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment ticked down from 27% to 22% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 today.

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