Chattahoochee Hills Charter School

Located at 9670 Rivertown Rd, in Fairburn, Georgia, Chattahoochee Hills Charter School is a moderately sized elementary campus that works with 536 students (grades K through 8), part of Fulton County.

Across the 107 schools in Fulton County (87,563 students total), Chattahoochee Hills Charter School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Chattahoochee Hills Charter School reports that 88% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Other groups include 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% White. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 43%.

On the resource side, Chattahoochee Hills Charter School shows 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.3:1 average. About 83% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Fulton County runs at roughly 62%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Chattahoochee Hills Charter School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.5%, the actual is 29.5%, a residual of -4.9 points.

In the area at large, census data for Fulton County shows the typical household earns roughly $95,292 per year, roughly 59% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Fulton County's 205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 138,270 students), Chattahoochee Hills Charter School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Palmetto Elementary School, around 3.9 miles off. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Chattahoochee Hills Charter School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 34.0%.

The school occupies an outlying site. Chattahoochee Hills Charter School operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 15%: 468 students in 2018 compared to 536 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 11% to 3% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 21.3:1 in 2018 to 12.0:1 in 2025.

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