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Enrollment
586
Elementary
DISTRICT 584 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CLAYTON COUNTY·NCES 130123001925
Kemp Elementary School
10990 Folsom Rd, Hampton, GA 30228 · (770) 473-2870 · Clayton County
GRADES 03–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL586 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
14.7:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.0:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
586 students
DISTRICT 99% · STATE 74%
Community
5
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 201 | 34% |
| Grade 4 | 179 | 31% |
| Grade 5 | 206 | 35% |
Student demographics
38%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 48% · 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
Test scores
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedEnglish Language Arts
26.8%
GA avg 40.1% . +10.7pp since 2021
Math
30.6%
GA avg 44.6% . +11.6pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 27 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 31 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Georgia schools, those numbers are about 40 and 45. Reading and writing scores are up about 11 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 12 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 26.8% | 30.6% |
| 2023-24 | 25.9% | 35.0% |
| 2022-23 | 22.1% | 28.4% |
| 2021-22 | 16.0% | 19.0% |
% 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
27.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
25.7%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 27% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 26% 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 Kemp Elementary School
Kemp Elementary School's state test result (27.3% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kemp Elementary School this school | 586 | 100.0% | 27.3% |
| Kemp Primary Hampton | 626 | 100.0% | N/A |
| Hamilton E. Holmes Elementary East Point | 587 | 100.0% | 26.0% |
| Northcutt Elementary School College Park | 618 | 100.0% | 22.5% |
| J. L. Lomax Elementary School Valdosta | 576 | 97.7% | 20.1% |
| Sumter County Elementary School Americus | 539 | 100.0% | 21.2% |
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 Kemp Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Clayton County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 27.3% | #877 of 1,208 | #7 of 37 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 30.6% | #844 of 1,215 ▼ 116 | #8 of 37 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 26.8% | #832 of 1,215 ▲ 65 | #7 of 37 ▲ 4 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +11.2pp | #97 of 1,183 | #7 of 36 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 586 | #637 of 1,324 | #21 of 41 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.7:1 | #1,018 of 1,301 | #30 of 40 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 38.0% | #980 of 1,301 | #30 of 40 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #100 of 1,312 | #25 of 41 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.8% | #377 of 854 | #23 of 34 |
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
586
-70 (-11%) vs 2020
-28% since 1990-91, when it was 818
Student : Teacher
14.7:1
was 16.4:1
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 | 586 | 40 | 14.7:1 | 100% (586) |
| 2023-24 | 600 | 38 | 15.8:1 | 100% (600) |
| 2022-23 | 638 | 38 | 16.8:1 | 90% (577) |
| 2020-21 | 656 | 40 | 16.4:1 | 93% (610) |
| 2017-18 | 688 | 41 | 16.8:1 | 99% (684) |
| 2015-16 | 673 | 37 | 18.2:1 | 100% (670) |
| 2010-11 | 689 | 42 | 16.4:1 | 81% (559) |
| 2000-01 | 932 | 54 | 17.3:1 | 31% (293) |
| 1990-91 | 818 | 45 | 18.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Kemp Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 15% (688 to 586); teachers down 2% (41 to 40).
About Kemp Elementary School
Kemp Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school in Hampton, Georgia, administered by Clayton County. It has an enrollment of 586 students in grades 3 through 5.
The district, Clayton County, operates 68 schools serving 51,326 students.
At Kemp Elementary School, 77% of students are Black. After that, the student body is 14% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, and 2% White. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Kemp Elementary School scores 38%.
Kemp Elementary School has 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 14.7:1. The school's 14.7:1 compares with an average of 13.3:1 for elementary schools in Georgia. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 100%.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, Kemp Elementary School is 1.6 points above the average proficiency rate across its state test results predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 27.3% actual, 25.7% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in Georgia.
Clayton County is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $59,806 a year, roughly 23% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 15%. Kemp Elementary School shares Clayton County with 72 other public schools.
Kemp Elementary School is about 0.1 miles from Kemp Primary, its nearest public school. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Kemp Elementary School's average proficiency of 27.3% compares with 21.5% for its nearest scored neighbors.
The school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (Suburb: Large).
Since 2020-21, enrollment has fallen 11%, from 656 to 586. By 2024-25, the school had 14.7 students per teacher, compared with 16.4 in 2020-21.
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Clayton County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
298,924
Census ACS
Median income
$59,806
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
23%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
15%
Below federal line
Schools in county
73
63,156 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Clayton County
- Morrow High SchoolHigh · 2,077 students
- Lovejoy High SchoolHigh · 2,049 students
- Forest Park High SchoolHigh · 1,711 students
- Charles R. Drew High SchoolHigh · 1,708 students
- Mundy's Mill High SchoolHigh · 1,665 students
- Jonesboro High SchoolHigh · 1,630 students
Other schools in Hampton
- Lovejoy High SchoolHigh · 2,049 students
- Dutchtown HighHigh · 1,821 students
- Eddie White Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,364 students
- Hampton High SchoolHigh · 1,165 students
- Dutchtown Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,108 students
- Michelle Obama STEM Elementary AcademyElementary · 1,048 students
Other Kemp Elementary schools
3 other US public schools in 3 states are named Kemp Elementary. Kemp Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 4.
- Kemp Elementary SchoolPowder Springs, GA · 894 students
- Kemp Elementary SchoolCOMMERCE CITY, CO · 517 students
- Kemp Elementary SchoolDayton, OH · 422 students
Nearby schools
- Kemp Primary0.1 mi · 626
- Hawthorne Elementary School0.7 mi · 813
- Lovejoy High School1.2 mi · 2,049
- Michelle Obama STEM Elementary Academy1.8 mi · 1,048
- Eddie White Middle School1.8 mi · 1,364
- Mundys Mill Middle School2.2 mi · 687
Frequently asked questions
About Kemp Elementary SchoolHow large is Kemp Elementary School?
Kemp Elementary School enrolls approximately 586 students in grades 03-05.
What age range does Kemp Elementary School serve?
Kemp Elementary School serves students from grade 03 through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Kemp Elementary School?
Approximately 14.7:1 students per teacher at Kemp Elementary School.
How diverse is Kemp Elementary School?
Kemp Elementary School reports a student body of 2% White, 14% Hispanic, 77% Black, 1% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is Kemp Elementary School in?
Kemp Elementary School is part of Clayton County.
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