Enrollment
378
Elementary
DISTRICT 556 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DEKALB COUNTY·NCES 130174000688
Hawthorne Elementary School
2535 Caladium Dr NE, Atlanta, GA 30345 · (678) 874-2802 · DeKalb County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL378 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 36% of Georgia public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- CThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Georgia public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
9.4:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.1:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
83%
314 students
DISTRICT 82% · STATE 74%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 21 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 45 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 69 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 73 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 62 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 51 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 57 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (45) is 21% smaller than its 5th grade class (57).
Student demographics
69%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 63% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on published attendance-zone data from DeKalb County. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedEnglish Language Arts
31.5%
GA avg 40.1% . -5.0pp since 2021
Math
38.3%
GA avg 44.6% . +3.9pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 32 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 38 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Georgia schools, those numbers are about 40 and 45. Reading and writing scores are down about 5 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 4 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 31.5% | 38.3% |
| 2023-24 | 34.7% | 35.9% |
| 2022-23 | 27.7% | 34.6% |
| 2021-22 | 36.5% | 34.4% |
% Proficient or Distinguished, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Georgia Milestones. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
33.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
34.4%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 33% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 34% typical for Georgia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Georgia's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Hawthorne Elementary School
Hawthorne Elementary School's state test result (33.2% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawthorne Elementary School this school | 378 | 83.1% | 33.2% |
| Beulah Elementary School Douglasville | 428 | 83.9% | 34.8% |
| Winston Elementary School Winston | 297 | 84.2% | 51.9% |
| Allatoona Elementary School Acworth | 413 | 84.5% | 42.6% |
| Lithia Springs Elementary School Lithia Springs | 500 | 85.4% | 34.1% |
| Midvale Elementary School Tucker | 417 | 78.7% | 41.4% |
Matched among Georgia elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Hawthorne Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In DeKalb County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 33.2% | #715 of 1,208 | #36 of 88 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 38.3% | #651 of 1,215 ▲ 47 | #30 of 88 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 31.5% | #674 of 1,215 ▼ 26 | #36 of 88 ▼ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -0.6pp | #377 of 1,183 | #21 of 88 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 378 | #1,134 of 1,324 | #77 of 97 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.4:1 | #22 of 1,301 | #2 of 94 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.0% | #150 of 1,301 | #15 of 94 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 83.1% | #675 of 1,312 | #62 of 97 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.0% | #674 of 854 | #64 of 73 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
378
+38 (+11%) vs 2020
-12% since 1990-91, when it was 430
Student : Teacher
9.4:1
was 9.7:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 378 | 40 | 9.4:1 | 83% (314) |
| 2023-24 | 345 | 34 | 10.2:1 | 68% (236) |
| 2022-23 | 347 | 34 | 10.2:1 | 60% (207) |
| 2020-21 | 340 | 35 | 9.7:1 | 53% (180) |
| 2017-18 | 402 | 47 | 8.6:1 | 56% (224) |
| 2015-16 | 454 | 38 | 11.9:1 | 54% (243) |
| 2010-11 | 452 | 41 | 11.0:1 | 44% (197) |
| 2000-01 | 355 | 32 | 11.1:1 | 66% (234) |
| 1990-91 | 430 | 29 | 14.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Hawthorne Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 6% (402 to 378); teachers down 15% (47 to 40).
About Hawthorne Elementary School
Hawthorne Elementary School is a public elementary school in Atlanta, Georgia. It reported 378 students in pre-K through 5 in 2024-25. By comparison, elementary schools in Georgia enroll about 605 students on average.
DeKalb County has 131 schools; together they serve 92,088 students.
The student body at Hawthorne Elementary School has no majority group. Hispanic students lead at 44%. The remaining shares are 24% Black, 23% White, 5% multiracial, and 3% Asian. DeKalb County as a whole is about 11% Hispanic, so the school's share is higher. A diversity index of 69% means there is a 69% chance two randomly chosen students at Hawthorne Elementary School are from different groups.
The school lists 40 full-time-equivalent teachers and a student-to-teacher ratio of 9.4:1. The average for elementary schools in Georgia is 13.3:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. A total of 314 students, or 83%, are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
Hawthorne Elementary School earns a C+ on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 36% of Georgia public elementary schools.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, Hawthorne Elementary School is 1.2 points below the average proficiency rate across its state test results predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 33.2% actual, 34.4% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in Georgia.
In the surrounding county, DeKalb County, the median household earns about $80,644 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 47%, and about 10% of people live in poverty. Counting Hawthorne Elementary School, DeKalb County has 154 public schools.
Henderson Mill Elementary School, about 0.9 miles away, is the closest public school. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Hawthorne Elementary School places 6th of 9 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
Federal records code the school's setting as Suburb: Large.
Enrollment rose by 11% across 4 years, from 340 in 2020-21 to 378 in 2024-25.
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DeKalb County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
765,351
Census ACS
Median income
$80,644
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
47%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
154
102,960 students
Quick facts
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Other Hawthorne Elementary schools
32 other US public schools in 20 states are named Hawthorne Elementary. Hawthorne Elementary School is the 19th largest of the 33.
- Hawthorne Elementary SchoolHampton, GA · 813 students
- Hawthorne ElementaryRiverside, CA · 663 students
- Hawthorne Elementary SchoolElmhurst, IL · 568 students
- Hawthorne ElementaryOntario, CA · 549 students
- Hawthorne Elementary SchoolColumbus, OH · 538 students
Nearby schools
- Henderson Mill Elementary School0.9 mi · 541
- Lakeside High School1.2 mi · 2,234
- Dresden Elementary School1.3 mi · 606
- Henderson Middle School1.3 mi · 1,367
- GLOBE Academy Charter School I1.3 mi · 1,093
- Briarlake Elementary School1.5 mi · 360
Frequently asked questions
About Hawthorne Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Hawthorne Elementary School?
Hawthorne Elementary School enrolls approximately 378 students in grades PK-05.
Is Hawthorne Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Hawthorne Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Hawthorne Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Hawthorne Elementary School is approximately 9.4:1 (40 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Hawthorne Elementary School?
At Hawthorne Elementary School, the student body is approximately 23% White, 44% Hispanic, 24% Black, 3% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is Hawthorne Elementary School in?
Hawthorne Elementary School is part of DeKalb County.
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