Enrollment
311
Elementary
DISTRICT 470 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ATLANTA PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 130012000139
Charles L. Gideons Elementary School
897 Welch St SW, Atlanta, GA 30310 · (404) 802-7700 · Fulton County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL311 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 13% of Georgia public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- A-Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Georgia public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
11.0:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.6:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
311 students
DISTRICT 82% · STATE 74%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 21 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 33 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 46 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 52 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 55 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 49 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 55 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (33) is 40% smaller than its 5th grade class (55).
Student demographics
22%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 47% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Charles L. Gideons Elementary School→Sylvan Hills Middle School
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Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedEnglish Language Arts
14.0%
GA avg 40.1% . +6.8pp since 2021
Math
18.7%
GA avg 44.6% . +10.1pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 14 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 19 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Georgia schools, those numbers are about 40 and 45. Reading and writing scores are up about 7 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 10 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 14.0% | 18.7% |
| 2023-24 | 14.7% | 20.3% |
| 2022-23 | 12.5% | 11.9% |
| 2021-22 | 7.1% | 8.6% |
% Proficient or Distinguished, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Georgia Milestones. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
16.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
25.7%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-9.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 16% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 26% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Charles L. Gideons Elementary School
Charles L. Gideons Elementary School's state test result (16.1% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Charles L. Gideons Elementary School this school | 311 | 100.0% | 16.1% |
| Jamestown Elementary School Hephzibah | 327 | 100.0% | 15.5% |
| T. J. Perkerson Elementary School Atlanta | 338 | 100.0% | 18.1% |
| Freeman Elementary School Warrenton | 315 | 100.0% | 19.9% |
| Barack and Michelle Obama Academy Atlanta | 297 | 100.0% | 27.2% |
| Rainbow Elementary School Decatur | 337 | 100.0% | 20.4% |
Matched among Georgia elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Charles L. Gideons Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Fulton County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 16.1% | #1,127 of 1,208 | #104 of 113 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 18.7% | #1,087 of 1,215 ▼ 57 | #99 of 113 ▼ 11 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 14.0% | #1,152 of 1,215 ▼ 10 | #111 of 113 ▼ 6 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +8.5pp | #194 of 1,183 | #32 of 110 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 311 | #1,233 of 1,324 | #107 of 120 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.0:1 | #120 of 1,301 | #31 of 118 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 22.5% | #1,164 of 1,301 | #72 of 118 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #22 of 1,312 | #20 of 119 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.6% | #379 of 854 | #50 of 92 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
311
+12 (+4%) vs 2020
-47% since 1990-91, when it was 588
Student : Teacher
11.0:1
was 9.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 311 | 28.2 | 11.0:1 | 100% (311) |
| 2023-24 | 295 | 32.2 | 9.2:1 | 100% (295) |
| 2022-23 | 343 | 34 | 10.1:1 | 100% (343) |
| 2020-21 | 299 | 33 | 9.1:1 | 100% (299) |
| 2017-18 | 364 | 54 | 6.7:1 | 100% (364) |
| 2015-16 | 380 | 26 | 14.6:1 | 99% (377) |
| 2010-11 | 591 | 38 | 15.6:1 | 98% (581) |
| 2000-01 | 687 | 39 | 17.6:1 | 88% (604) |
| 1990-91 | 588 | 38 | 15.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Charles L. Gideons Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 15% (364 to 311); teachers down 48% (54 to 28.2).
About Charles L. Gideons Elementary School
Charles L. Gideons Elementary School is a small elementary school in Atlanta, Georgia, one of the schools in Atlanta Public Schools. Students in pre-K through 5 attend, and enrollment is 311 students. The typical figure for elementary schools in Georgia is about 605 students.
Atlanta Public Schools is the district for Charles L. Gideons Elementary School. It has 87 schools and 49,945 students.
Most students at Charles L. Gideons Elementary School are Black: 88% of enrollment. The remaining students are 4% White, 4% Hispanic, and 4% multiracial. Census figures show Fulton County is about 43% Black. By the diversity index, Charles L. Gideons Elementary School comes in at 22%.
Teachers at the school number 28.2 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 11.0:1. The 13.3:1 average for elementary schools in Georgia is higher than this school's figure. Roughly 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch. Public schools in Fulton County average 62%.
Charles L. Gideons Elementary School is graded D by allk12, scoring above 13% of Georgia public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Charles L. Gideons Elementary School sits between the top and bottom 10% of Georgia schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate on state tests of 16.1% and a predicted 25.7%.
Fulton County has these Census figures: median household income is about $95,292, roughly 59% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 8%. The public schools of Fulton County number 205 and enroll about 138,270.
Of nearby public schools, Paul L. Dunbar Elementary School is the closest, at about 0.8 miles. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Charles L. Gideons Elementary School comes in 7th of 9 nearby schools on average proficiency.
In the federal locale system, Charles L. Gideons Elementary School is coded City: Large, for schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
The 2024-25 enrollment of 311 was 4% higher than in 2020-21, when it was 299. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio rose from 9.1:1 to 11.0:1.
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Fulton County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,076,561
Census ACS
Median income
$95,292
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
59%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
205
138,270 students
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Frequently asked questions
About Charles L. Gideons Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Charles L. Gideons Elementary School?
Charles L. Gideons Elementary School enrolls approximately 311 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Charles L. Gideons Elementary School serve?
Charles L. Gideons Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Charles L. Gideons Elementary School have?
Charles L. Gideons Elementary School employs 28 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.0:1.
What is the student diversity at Charles L. Gideons Elementary School?
Student demographics at Charles L. Gideons Elementary School are roughly 4% White, 4% Hispanic, 88% Black, 0% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is Charles L. Gideons Elementary School in?
Charles L. Gideons Elementary School is part of Atlanta Public Schools.
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