D. M. Therrell High School

D. M. Therrell High School is a four-year high school of reasonably sized scale in Atlanta, Georgia, one of the schools within Atlanta Public Schools, enrolling 964 students in grades 9 through 12.

Atlanta Public Schools runs 87 schools in total, collectively educating 49,945 students. D. M. Therrell High School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, D. M. Therrell High School records that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (94%). Beyond that, the school records 4% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 43% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 68 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Fulton County's rate of about 62%.

With demographic context factored in, D. M. Therrell High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 25.7%; this one delivers 15.6%.

Across the wider county, census data for Fulton County shows median household income runs about $95,292, 59% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Fulton County's 205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 138,270 students), D. M. Therrell High School is one campus in the mix.

L. O. Kimberly Elementary 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 D. M. Therrell High School. On composite proficiency, D. M. Therrell High School comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 22.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at D. M. Therrell High School has increased 19%, going from 810 students in 2018 to 964 in 2025. Class-load math has rose: from 12.9:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 in 2025.

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