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Dolvin Elementary School
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Test scores
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedWhat this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 75 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 84 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Georgia schools, those numbers are about 40 and 45. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2021, while math scores are up about 6 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 79% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 69% 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 Dolvin Elementary School
Dolvin Elementary School, a mid-sized elementary school in Alpharetta, Georgia, one of the schools within Fulton County, serves 642 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.
Fulton County comprises 107 schools with combined enrollment of 87,563 students; Dolvin Elementary School is among them.
On demographics, Dolvin Elementary School logs that the most-represented group is White (43%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 29% Asian, 14% Hispanic, 8% Black, 6% multiracial.
On the resource side, On paper, Dolvin Elementary School has 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.3:1 average. Roughly 17% of students at Dolvin Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, 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 below the surrounding baseline.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Dolvin Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 68.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 79.2%.
In the broader community, the surrounding county (Fulton County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $95,292 per year, about 59% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Fulton County's 205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 138,270 students), Dolvin Elementary School is one campus in the mix.
Ocee Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Dolvin Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Dolvin Elementary School at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 76.6%.
The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.
Over the past 7-year window. Dolvin Elementary School's enrollment has contracted 24% since 2018, when it stood at 842 (now 642). The White share of enrollment shrank from 50% to 43% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 15.3:1 in 2025.
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