Atlanta Heights Charter School

Atlanta Heights Charter School operates as a medium-sized K-5 school in Atlanta, Georgia, run under State Specialty Schools II- Atlanta Heights Charter School. Current enrollment sits at 663 students spanning grades K through 8.

Atlanta Heights Charter School is a school of State Specialty Schools II- Atlanta Heights Charter School, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

On demographics, Atlanta Heights Charter School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (87%). The remainder is composed of 8% multiracial, 5% Hispanic. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 43%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.3:1 average. Around 100% 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 somewhat above typical.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Fulton County put median household income runs about $95,292, 59% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Fulton County's 205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 138,270 students), Atlanta Heights Charter School is one campus in the mix.

The Kindezi School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting. As a public charter, Atlanta Heights Charter School runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Atlanta Heights Charter School has contracted 11%, going from 749 students in 2018 to 663 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 97% to 87% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 22.0:1 in 2018 to 19.5:1 in 2025.

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