Cleveland Elementary School

Set in Fayetteville, Georgia, Cleveland Elementary School is a tight-knit elementary campus, run under Fayette County. It enrolls 414 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Georgia's public schools average about 605 students each, so Cleveland Elementary School sits 32% below that benchmark.

Across the 24 schools in Fayette County (19,800 students total), Cleveland Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Cleveland Elementary School logs that 48% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school shows 24% White, 15% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 26% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.3:1, putting Cleveland Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 47% of students at Cleveland Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Fayette County's rate of about 34%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Cleveland Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.9%, the actual is 53.8%, a residual of +0.9 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Fayette County) records that median household income runs about $111,978, roughly 50% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Fayette County runs 26 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,375 students), of which Cleveland Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Bennett's Mill Middle School, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Cleveland Elementary School comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 58.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 4%: 433 students in 2018 compared to 414 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 37% to 48% across the same window.

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