John Lewis Invictus Academy

As a mid-tier junior high in Atlanta, Georgia, John Lewis Invictus Academy educates 692 students from grades 6 through 8, one of the schools within Atlanta Public Schools.

Atlanta Public Schools comprises 87 schools with combined enrollment of 49,945 students; John Lewis Invictus Academy is among them.

On the student-mix side, John Lewis Invictus Academy shows that nearly all students (90%) are Black. The remainder breaks down as 8% Hispanic. By comparison, Fulton County as a whole is about 43% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, John Lewis Invictus Academy logs 60 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.1:1, putting John Lewis Invictus Academy tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Fulton County runs at roughly 62%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), John Lewis Invictus Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.7%, the actual is 13.7%, a residual of -11.9 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Fulton County put median household earnings sit near $95,292, 59% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Fulton County's 205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 138,270 students), John Lewis Invictus Academy is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Woodson Park Academy School, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), John Lewis Invictus Academy ranks 9th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 18.5%.

The school occupies an urban site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at John Lewis Invictus Academy has rose 108%, going from 333 students in 2018 to 692 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 20.3:1 in 2018 to 11.6:1 today.

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