Garden Hills Elementary School

As a low-enrollment elementary-level community in Atlanta, Georgia, Garden Hills Elementary School instructs 494 students from grades pre-K through 5, overseen by Atlanta Public Schools.

Within Atlanta Public Schools, which oversees 87 schools and 49,945 students, Garden Hills Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Garden Hills Elementary School reports that the largest single group is Black at 43%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder comes out to 36% Hispanic, 15% White, 5% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Fulton County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.3:1. The state averages around 13.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 72% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Fulton County runs at roughly 62%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Garden Hills Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 39.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 40.8%.

In the area at large, census data for Fulton County shows median household earnings sit near $95,292, about 59% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Fulton County's 205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 138,270 students), Garden Hills Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

E. Rivers Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Garden Hills Elementary School comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 48.1%.

Garden Hills Elementary School operates from an urban location.

Over the past 7-year window. Garden Hills Elementary School's enrollment has shrank 4% since 2018, when it stood at 515 (now 494). Black enrollment moved from 17% to 43% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 12.9:1 in 2018 to 11.3:1 today.

On this page, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.