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Feldwood 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 28 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 32 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 8 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 9 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 29% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Feldwood Elementary School
Feldwood Elementary School operates as a moderately sized elementary campus in College Park, Georgia, one of the schools within Fulton County. Current enrollment sits at 678 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.
Fulton County runs 107 schools in total, collectively educating 87,563 students. Feldwood Elementary School is one of those campuses.
On the student-mix side, Feldwood Elementary School logs that 93% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority; the rest is composed of 4% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 43%.
In terms of school funding signals, Feldwood Elementary School lists 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.3:1, putting Feldwood Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Fulton County (around 62%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Feldwood Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 25.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 28.6%.
In the area at large, ACS estimates for Fulton County put median household income runs about $95,292, 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 Feldwood Elementary School is one.
Nearest neighbor: Banneker High School, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Feldwood Elementary School. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Feldwood Elementary School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 26.1%.
The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.
Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 11%: 765 students in 2018 compared to 678 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.0:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 today.
On the community side, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
Fulton County at a glance
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