Atkinson Elementary School

Atkinson Elementary School operates as an intimate primary school in Newnan, Georgia, operated by Coweta County. Current enrollment sits at 398 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 34% below the typical public school in Georgia, which averages around 605 students.

Coweta County comprises 29 schools with combined enrollment of 23,064 students; Atkinson Elementary School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Atkinson Elementary School shows that the most-represented group is White (47%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school lists 31% Black, 14% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Coweta County as a whole is about 70% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.1:1. The state averages around 13.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 65% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Coweta County runs at roughly 46%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Atkinson Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.9%, the actual is 34.1%, a residual of -9.8 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Coweta County) records that the typical household earns roughly $95,548 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Coweta County's 31 public schools (combined enrollment of about 23,423 students), Atkinson Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Newnan High School, roughly 0.7 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Atkinson Elementary School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 39.9%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 7%: 427 students in 2018 compared to 398 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 14.2:1 in 2018 to 12.1:1 today.

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