F. L. Stanton Elementary School

F. L. Stanton Elementary School, an one-room-style elementary school in Atlanta, Georgia, run under Atlanta Public Schools, serves 161 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Georgia's public schools average about 605 students each, so F. L. Stanton Elementary School sits 73% below that benchmark.

Atlanta Public Schools comprises 87 schools with combined enrollment of 49,945 students; F. L. Stanton Elementary School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, F. L. Stanton Elementary School records that 99% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. The wider county runs roughly 43% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school lists 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.8:1. The state averages around 13.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Fulton County (around 62%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), F. L. Stanton Elementary 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 18.3%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Fulton County put the typical household earns roughly $95,292 per year, roughly 59% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Fulton County runs 205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 138,270 students), of which F. L. Stanton Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Kipp Atlanta Collegiate Charter School, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts F. L. Stanton Elementary School at 4th of 9; the average score across the group is 18.1%.

F. L. Stanton Elementary School operates from a metropolitan location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 45%: 293 students in 2018 compared to 161 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 13.6:1 in 2018 to 9.8:1 today.

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