Creekside High School

Creekside High School, a substantial 9-12 campus in Fairburn, Georgia, part of Fulton County, instructs 1,745 students, covering grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 56% bigger than the state mean of about 1,120.

Creekside High School is one of 107 schools operated by Fulton County, a district that enrolls 87,563 students overall.

On demographics, Creekside High School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (81%). Beyond that, the school records 16% Hispanic. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 43%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Creekside High School has 101 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.3:1. The state averages around 15.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Fulton County runs at roughly 62%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Creekside High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.7%, the actual is 29.0%, a residual of +3.4 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Fulton County put the typical household earns roughly $95,292 per year, 59% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Fulton County's 205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 138,270 students), Creekside High School is one campus in the mix.

Bear Creek Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Creekside High School. On composite proficiency, Creekside High School comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 39.2%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Creekside High School has stayed largely flat, going from 1,720 students in 2018 to 1,745 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 8% to 16% across the same window. Class-load math has rose: from 16.0:1 in 2018 to 17.3:1 in 2025.

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