Joseph Humphries Elementary School

As a minimally staffed primary school in Atlanta, Georgia, Joseph Humphries Elementary School hosts 237 students from grades pre-K through 5, part of Atlanta Public Schools. That puts it 61% smaller than the typical public school in Georgia, which averages around 605 students.

Atlanta Public Schools comprises 87 schools with combined enrollment of 49,945 students; Joseph Humphries Elementary School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Joseph Humphries Elementary School records that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (82%). Other groups include 16% Hispanic. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 43%.

On the resource side, Joseph Humphries Elementary School records 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.3:1 average. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Fulton County's rate of about 62%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Joseph Humphries Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 25.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 16.3%.

Around the school, Fulton County reports that median household earnings sit near $95,292, roughly 59% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Fulton County runs 205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 138,270 students), of which Joseph Humphries Elementary School is one.

South Atlanta High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Joseph Humphries Elementary School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Joseph Humphries Elementary School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 19.2%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Five-year trend. Joseph Humphries Elementary School's enrollment has shrank 27% since 2018, when it stood at 325 (now 237). Black enrollment moved from 91% to 82% across the same window.

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