City Park Elementary School

City Park Elementary School is an elementary campus of mid-sized scale in Dalton, Georgia, part of Dalton Public Schools, works with 707 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 10 schools in Dalton Public Schools (7,619 students total), City Park Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, City Park Elementary School shows that 71% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder breaks down as 15% White, 7% Black, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Whitfield County as a whole is about 37% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, City Park Elementary School records 62 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.3:1 average. Roughly 73% of students at City Park Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Whitfield County (around 83%), the school's rate is south of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, City Park Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.8%, the actual is 31.2%, a residual of -8.6 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Whitfield County put median household earnings sit near $67,070, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Whitfield County runs 33 public schools (combined enrollment of about 19,570 students), of which City Park Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Westwood Elementary School, roughly 0.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, City Park Elementary School comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 34.7%.

City Park Elementary School operates from a city-core location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 4%: 738 students in 2018 compared to 707 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 13.5:1 in 2018 to 11.4:1 in 2025.

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