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Birmingham Falls Elementary School
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Test scores
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedWhat this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 81 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 87 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Georgia schools, those numbers are about 40 and 45. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2021, while math scores are up about 4 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 83% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 75% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Birmingham Falls Elementary School
Birmingham Falls Elementary School operates as a mid-tier elementary school in Milton, Georgia, overseen by Fulton County. Current enrollment sits at 696 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.
Within Fulton County, which oversees 107 schools and 87,563 students, Birmingham Falls Elementary School is one campus in the system.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Birmingham Falls Elementary School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (80%). Other groups include 6% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 5% Asian, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 38% White, putting the school's mix noticeably more White than the area baseline.
On the resource side, On paper, Birmingham Falls Elementary School has 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.7:1. The state averages around 13.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 4% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Fulton County runs at roughly 62%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Birmingham Falls Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 75.1%; this one delivers 83.3%.
Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Fulton County indicate median household earnings sit near $95,292, about 59% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Birmingham Falls Elementary School is one of 205 public schools in Fulton County (combined enrollment of about 138,270 students).
Summit Hill Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Birmingham Falls Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Birmingham Falls Elementary School at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 70.4%.
Geographically, the school is in a residential area.
Over the past 7-year window. Birmingham Falls Elementary School's enrollment has shrank 6% since 2018, when it stood at 741 (now 696). Over the same period, the White share edged down from 84% to 80%.
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