Frederick Douglass High School

Located at 225 Hamilton E Holmes Dr NW, in Atlanta, Georgia, Frederick Douglass High School is an average-sized senior high that instructs 1,296 students (grades 9 through 12), run under Atlanta Public Schools.

Atlanta Public Schools runs 87 schools in total, collectively educating 49,945 students. Frederick Douglass High School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Frederick Douglass High School lists that 90% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. The remainder reads as 8% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 43% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 87 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.0:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Fulton County (around 62%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Frederick Douglass High 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 22.6%.

Zooming out to the county, Fulton County reports that 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 Frederick Douglass High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Atlanta SMART Academy, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Frederick Douglass High School. On composite proficiency, Frederick Douglass High School comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 22.0%.

Frederick Douglass High School operates from an urban location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 40%: 929 students in 2018 compared to 1,296 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment contracted from 96% to 90% over that span.

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