Fulton Leadership Academy

Fulton Leadership Academy is a micro-enrollment senior high in East Point, Georgia, run under State Specialty Schools II- Fulton Leadership Academy. The school serves 166 students in grades 6 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 85% below the state mean of about 1,120.

State Specialty Schools II- Fulton Leadership Academy is the operating authority for Fulton Leadership Academy, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Fulton Leadership Academy lists that 93% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority; the rest consists of 4% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. By comparison, Fulton County as a whole is about 43% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Fulton Leadership Academy shows 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.2:1, putting Fulton Leadership Academy tighter than the state norm the norm. About 68% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

In the surrounding community, Fulton County reports that the typical household earns roughly $95,292 per year, roughly 59% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Fulton Leadership Academy is one of 205 public schools in Fulton County (combined enrollment of about 138,270 students).

The closest other public school is RISE Preparatory Charter School, roughly 0.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies an outer-ring site. Fulton Leadership Academy is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Trend over the last 6 years. Over the past 6-year window, the student count edged down 53%: 354 students in 2018 compared to 166 in 2024. Over the same period, the Black share shrank from 97% to 93%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 11.8:1 in 2018 to 10.0:1 today.

Inside the community feed, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.