Beecher Hills Elementary School

Set in Atlanta, Georgia, Beecher Hills Elementary School is an one-room-style K-5 school, overseen by Atlanta Public Schools. It educates 237 students across grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 61% below the state mean of about 605.

Atlanta Public Schools runs 87 schools in total, collectively educating 49,945 students. Beecher Hills Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Beecher Hills Elementary School reports that 94% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Other groups include 3% multiracial. By comparison, Fulton County as a whole is about 43% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.3:1, putting Beecher Hills Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Fulton County (around 62%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Beecher Hills Elementary School is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 25.7%; this one delivers 42.6%, a residual of +16.9 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Fulton County) records that the typical household earns roughly $95,292 per year, roughly 59% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Beecher Hills Elementary School is one of 205 public schools in Fulton County (combined enrollment of about 138,270 students).

The closest other public school is Peyton Forest Elementary School, roughly 1.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Beecher Hills Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 22.6%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 32%: 346 students in 2018 compared to 237 in 2025.

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