Booker T. Washington High School

Booker T. Washington High School, a low-enrollment senior high in Atlanta, Georgia, one of the schools within Atlanta Public Schools, works with 856 students, covering grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Georgia's public schools average about 1,120 students each, so Booker T. Washington High School sits 24% smaller than that benchmark.

Atlanta Public Schools runs 87 schools in total, collectively educating 49,945 students. Booker T. Washington High School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Booker T. Washington High School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (95%). Beyond that, the school shows 2% Hispanic. By comparison, Fulton County as a whole is about 43% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 71 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Fulton County runs at roughly 62%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Booker T. Washington High School is in the bottom 10% of Georgia public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 25.7%; Booker T. Washington High School posts 10.7%, -15.0 points below that line.

In the area at large, Fulton County reports that the typical household earns roughly $95,292 per year, 59% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Fulton County's 205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 138,270 students), Booker T. Washington High School is one campus in the mix.

M. A. Jones Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Booker T. Washington High School ranks 9th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 19.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Booker T. Washington High School has rose 19%, going from 722 students in 2018 to 856 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 12.1:1 today.

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