Charles L. Gideons Elementary School

Charles L. Gideons Elementary School operates as a close-knit elementary school in Atlanta, Georgia, part of Atlanta Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 311 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 605 students per school, that is 49% smaller than typical.

Atlanta Public Schools comprises 87 schools with combined enrollment of 49,945 students; Charles L. Gideons Elementary School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Charles L. Gideons Elementary School records that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (88%). Beyond that, the school reports 4% White, 4% Hispanic, 4% 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, The school employs 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.3:1 average. An estimated 100% 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 above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Charles L. Gideons Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 25.7%; this one delivers 16.1%.

Around the school, Fulton County reports that median household income runs about $95,292, 59% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Charles L. Gideons Elementary School is one of 205 public schools in Fulton County (combined enrollment of about 138,270 students).

Nearest neighbor: Paul L. Dunbar Elementary School, around 0.8 miles off. 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), Charles L. Gideons Elementary School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 19.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Charles L. Gideons Elementary School has edged down 15%, going from 364 students in 2018 to 311 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share declined from 97% to 88%. Class-load math has loosened: from 6.7:1 in 2018 to 11.0:1 in 2025.

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