Flippen Elementary School

Located at 425 Peach Dr, in McDonough, Georgia, Flippen Elementary School is a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school that instructs 559 students (grades pre-K through 5), operated by Henry County.

Henry County runs 53 schools in total, collectively educating 43,012 students. Flippen Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Flippen Elementary School reports that 63% of the student body identifies as Black. The remainder consists of 18% Hispanic, 11% White, 4% multiracial, 4% Asian. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 52%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Flippen Elementary School logs 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 70% of students at Flippen Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Flippen Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.4%, the actual is 32.0%, a residual of -9.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Henry County shows the typical household earns roughly $83,146 per year, about 30% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Flippen Elementary School is one of 54 public schools in Henry County (combined enrollment of about 43,102 students).

Nearest neighbor: Eagle's Landing High School, around 0.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Flippen Elementary School comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 25.5%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Flippen Elementary School has decreased 15%, going from 660 students in 2018 to 559 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 21% to 11% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Flippen Elementary School community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.