Centennial Place Academy (Charter)

Centennial Place Academy (Charter), a reasonably sized elementary campus in Atlanta, Georgia, run under Atlanta Public Schools, enrolls 757 students, covering grades K through 8. That puts it 25% above the typical public school in Georgia, which averages around 605 students.

Across the 87 schools in Atlanta Public Schools (49,945 students total), Centennial Place Academy (Charter) accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Centennial Place Academy (Charter) records that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (90%). Beyond that, the school shows 4% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Fulton County as a whole is about 43% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 75 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 100% of students at Centennial Place Academy (Charter) qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Fulton County (around 62%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Centennial Place Academy (Charter) tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 25.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 25.9%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Fulton County put 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. Centennial Place Academy (Charter) is one of 205 public schools in Fulton County (combined enrollment of about 138,270 students).

Nearest neighbor: Michael R. Hollis Innovation Academy, around 1.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Centennial Place Academy (Charter). Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Centennial Place Academy (Charter) at 4th of 9; the average score across the group is 31.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area. Centennial Place Academy (Charter) operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Centennial Place Academy (Charter) has declined 11%, going from 847 students in 2018 to 757 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 13.4:1 in 2018 to 10.2:1 in 2025.

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