Flat Shoals Elementary School

Flat Shoals Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school in Conyers, Georgia, one of the schools within Rockdale County. The school works with 639 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Rockdale County comprises 18 schools with combined enrollment of 15,342 students; Flat Shoals Elementary School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Flat Shoals Elementary School lists that the largest single group is Black, at 74% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school lists 14% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 4% White. The wider county runs roughly 58% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Flat Shoals Elementary School lists 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 91% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Flat Shoals Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 30.3%, the actual is 27.8%, a residual of -2.5 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Rockdale County indicate the typical household earns roughly $77,247 per year, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Rockdale County runs 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,355 students), of which Flat Shoals Elementary School is one.

Peek's Chapel Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Flat Shoals Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Flat Shoals Elementary School at 4th of 9; the average score across the group is 24.1%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 10%: 711 students in 2018 compared to 639 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment decreased from 81% to 74% over that span.

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