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Crabapple Lane Elementary School
Test scores
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedWhat this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 67 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 71 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Georgia schools, those numbers are about 40 and 45. Reading and writing scores are down about 5 points since 2021, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 70% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 65% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Crabapple Lane Elementary School
Set in Peachtree City, Georgia, Crabapple Lane Elementary School is a middle-of-the-pack primary school, part of Fayette County. It caters to 594 students across grades pre-K through 5.
Fayette County comprises 24 schools with combined enrollment of 19,800 students; Crabapple Lane Elementary School is among them.
Looking at the student body, Crabapple Lane Elementary School logs that 55% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 17% Black, 15% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 5% Asian. That composition is broadly in line with Fayette County as a whole.
On the income-and-resources front, Crabapple Lane Elementary School records 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 24% of students at Crabapple Lane Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is south of Fayette County's rate of about 34%.
With demographic context factored in, Crabapple Lane Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 64.8%, the actual is 69.8%, a residual of +5.0 points.
Around the school, 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%. Across Fayette County's 26 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,375 students), Crabapple Lane Elementary School is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Kedron Elementary School, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Crabapple Lane Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Crabapple Lane Elementary School at 4th of 9; the average score across the group is 66.5%.
Crabapple Lane Elementary School operates from a commuter-belt location.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 601 students in 2018 compared to 594 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 63% to 55% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 in 2025.
On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
Fayette County at a glance
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