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College Park Elementary
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Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedWhat this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 17 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 16 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Georgia schools, those numbers are about 40 and 45. Reading and writing scores are up about 7 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 2 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 19% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 26% typical for Georgia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Georgia's top nor bottom 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About College Park Elementary
College Park Elementary is a low-enrollment K-5 school in College Park, Georgia, overseen by Fulton County. The school educates 475 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Georgia's public schools average about 605 students each, so College Park Elementary sits 21% smaller than that benchmark.
College Park Elementary is one of 107 schools operated by Fulton County, a district that caters to 87,563 students overall.
Looking at the student body, College Park Elementary lists that nearly all students (86%) are Black. Other groups include 9% Hispanic, 3% 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, Staff filings list 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.3:1 students per teacher. 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, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Fulton County runs at roughly 62%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, College Park Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.7%, the actual is 18.8%, a residual of -6.9 points.
In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Fulton County) records 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%. College Park Elementary is one of 205 public schools in Fulton County (combined enrollment of about 138,270 students).
Nearest neighbor: Promise Career Institute School, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around College Park Elementary. On composite proficiency, College Park Elementary comes 4th of 4 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 26.7%.
College Park Elementary operates from a commuter-belt location.
Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at College Park Elementary has fell 42%, going from 822 students in 2018 to 475 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 91% to 86% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 11.3:1 today.
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