Cliftondale Elementary School

Located at 3340 W Stubbs Rd, in College Park, Georgia, Cliftondale Elementary School is a moderately sized K-5 school that hosts 694 students (grades pre-K through 5), run under Fulton County.

Fulton County runs 107 schools in total, collectively educating 87,563 students. Cliftondale Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Cliftondale Elementary School records that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (92%). The remainder comes out to 4% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 43% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.3:1 average. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Fulton County runs at roughly 62%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Cliftondale Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 25.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 39.1%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Fulton County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $95,292 per year, 59% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Cliftondale Elementary School is one of 205 public schools in Fulton County (combined enrollment of about 138,270 students).

Stonewall Tell Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Cliftondale Elementary School comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 37.4%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Cliftondale Elementary School has stayed largely flat, going from 698 students in 2018 to 694 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment decreased from 97% to 92% over that span.

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