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Alumni: what's one memory from Edmonds Elementary School that still sticks with you?
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Enrollment
426
Elementary
DISTRICT 584 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CLAYTON COUNTY·NCES 130123000485
Edmonds Elementary School
4495 Simpson Rd, Forest Park, GA 30297 · (404) 362-3830 · Clayton County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL426 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
13.7:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.0:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
426 students
DISTRICT 99% · STATE 74%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 23 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 69 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 68 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 75 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 59 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 61 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 71 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (69) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (71).
Student demographics
53%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 48% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedEnglish Language Arts
13.5%
GA avg 40.1% . +2.9pp since 2021
Math
21.5%
GA avg 44.6% . +7.8pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 14 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 22 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 3 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 8 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 13.5% | 21.5% |
| 2023-24 | 14.1% | 24.9% |
| 2022-23 | 12.7% | 15.3% |
| 2021-22 | 10.6% | 13.8% |
% Proficient or Distinguished, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Georgia Milestones. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
19.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
25.7%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 20% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Edmonds Elementary School
Edmonds Elementary School's state test result (19.6% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edmonds Elementary School this school | 426 | 100.0% | 19.6% |
| Anderson Elementary School Conley | 420 | 100.0% | 21.5% |
| Fountain Elementary School Forest Park | 437 | 100.0% | 27.0% |
| Cox Elementary School Moultrie | 466 | 100.0% | 20.7% |
| Lake Ridge Elementary School Riverdale | 498 | 100.0% | 22.9% |
| Austell Elementary School Austell | 367 | 100.0% | 37.7% |
Matched among Georgia elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Edmonds Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Clayton County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 19.6% | #1,066 of 1,208 | #27 of 37 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 21.5% | #1,032 of 1,215 ▼ 87 | #22 of 37 ▼ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 13.5% | #1,158 of 1,215 ▼ 8 | #34 of 37 ▼ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +5.3pp | #362 of 1,183 | #20 of 36 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 426 | #1,041 of 1,324 | #36 of 41 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.7:1 | #756 of 1,301 | #18 of 40 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 53.3% | #703 of 1,301 | #8 of 40 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #88 of 1,312 | #13 of 41 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -28.9% | #98 of 854 | #7 of 34 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
426
-18 (-4%) vs 2020
+57% since 1990-91, when it was 271
Student : Teacher
13.7:1
was 12.7:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 426 | 31 | 13.7:1 | 100% (426) |
| 2023-24 | 445 | 34 | 13.1:1 | 100% (445) |
| 2022-23 | 470 | 32 | 14.7:1 | 90% (424) |
| 2020-21 | 444 | 35 | 12.7:1 | 93% (413) |
| 2017-18 | 599 | 41.5 | 14.4:1 | 99% (596) |
| 2015-16 | 582 | 38 | 15.3:1 | 99% (579) |
| 2010-11 | 590 | 42 | 14.1:1 | 92% (541) |
| 2000-01 | 494 | 31 | 15.9:1 | 83% (408) |
| 1990-91 | 271 | 28 | 9.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Edmonds Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 29% (599 to 426); teachers down 25% (41.5 to 31).
About Edmonds Elementary School
Edmonds Elementary School is a public elementary school in Forest Park, Georgia. It is open to students in pre-K through 5 and enrolls 426 students. It has 30% fewer students than the average for elementary schools in Georgia (about 605).
Clayton County (68 schools, 51,326 students) runs Edmonds Elementary School.
About 52% of the student body at Edmonds Elementary School is Black. Enrollment also includes 44% Hispanic. Among people living in Clayton County, the Black share is about 69%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 53%.
Based on 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, Edmonds Elementary School has a ratio of 13.7:1. The average ratio among elementary schools in Georgia is similar, at 13.3:1. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch stands at 100%.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Edmonds Elementary School falls in the middle 80% of Georgia schools: 19.6% actual against 25.7% predicted.
American Community Survey estimates for Clayton County show that the median household earns about $59,806 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 23%, and about 15% of people live in poverty. Clayton County has 73 public schools with about 63,156 students, including Edmonds Elementary School.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Huie Elementary School, is about 0.4 miles. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. On state test proficiency, Edmonds Elementary School ranks 7th in a group of 9 nearby schools.
The NCES locale for Edmonds Elementary School is Suburb: Large, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school's enrollment fell 4% from 2020-21 to 2024-25. Federal data show the ratio rising from 12.7:1 to 13.7:1.
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Clayton County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
298,924
Census ACS
Median income
$59,806
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
23%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
15%
Below federal line
Schools in county
73
63,156 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Clayton County
- Morrow High SchoolHigh · 2,077 students
- Lovejoy High SchoolHigh · 2,049 students
- Forest Park High SchoolHigh · 1,711 students
- Charles R. Drew High SchoolHigh · 1,708 students
- Mundy's Mill High SchoolHigh · 1,665 students
- Jonesboro High SchoolHigh · 1,630 students
Other schools in Forest Park
- Forest Park High SchoolHigh · 1,711 students
- Babb Middle SchoolMiddle · 881 students
- Huie Elementary SchoolElementary · 594 students
- Fountain Elementary SchoolElementary · 437 students
- Unidos Dual Language SchoolElementary · 394 students
- 7 Pillars Career AcademyMiddle · 271 students
Other Edmonds Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Edmonds Elementary. Edmonds Elementary School is the largest of the 2.
- Edmonds ElementaryEDMONDS, WA · 310 students
Nearby schools
- Huie Elementary School0.4 mi · 594
- Anderson Elementary School1.1 mi · 420
- Unidos Dual Language School1.2 mi · 394
- 7 Pillars Career Academy1.3 mi · 271
- Lake City Elementary School1.7 mi · 479
- Forest Park High School1.9 mi · 1,711
Frequently asked questions
About Edmonds Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Edmonds Elementary School?
Edmonds Elementary School enrolls approximately 426 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Edmonds Elementary School serve?
Edmonds Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Edmonds Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Edmonds Elementary School is approximately 13.7:1 (31 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Edmonds Elementary School?
At Edmonds Elementary School, the student body is approximately 1% White, 44% Hispanic, 52% Black, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is Edmonds Elementary School public or private?
Edmonds Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Clayton County.
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