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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at Kipp WAYS Primary Charter School this year?
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Enrollment
559
Elementary
DISTRICT 470 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ATLANTA PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 130012004155
Kipp WAYS Primary Charter School
350 Temple St NW, Atlanta, GA 30314 · (404) 924-6310 · Fulton County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL559 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 5% of Georgia public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C+Three-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
13.2:1
43 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.6:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
559 students
DISTRICT 82% · STATE 74%
Community
6
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 98 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 98 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 80 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 93 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 104 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 86 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (98) is 14% larger than its 5th grade class (86).
Student demographics
5%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 47% · 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
15.6%
GA avg 40.1% . -1.8pp since 2021
Math
18.3%
GA avg 44.6% . +4.2pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 16 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 18 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 2 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 4 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 15.6% | 18.3% |
| 2023-24 | 13.7% | 10.3% |
| 2022-23 | 19.6% | 17.6% |
| 2021-22 | 17.4% | 14.1% |
% 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
14.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
25.7%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-11.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 15% 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 Kipp WAYS Primary Charter School
Kipp WAYS Primary Charter School's state test result (14.5% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kipp WAYS Primary Charter School this school | 559 | 100.0% | 14.5% |
| Martin Luther King- Jr. Elementary School Albany | 537 | 100.0% | 15.1% |
| KIPP Vision Primary Charter School Atlanta | 562 | 100.0% | 21.8% |
| DeKalb Preparatory Academy Charter Decatur | 537 | 100.0% | 18.7% |
| Stonewall Tell Elementary School College Park | 579 | 100.0% | 41.1% |
| KIPP Soul Primary Atlanta | 505 | 100.0% | 20.2% |
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 Kipp WAYS Primary Charter School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Fulton County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 14.5% | #1,156 of 1,208 | #109 of 113 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 18.3% | #1,096 of 1,215 ▲ 96 | #102 of 113 ▲ 10 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 15.6% | #1,115 of 1,215 ▲ 43 | #108 of 113 ▼ 2 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +1.2pp | #661 of 1,183 | #87 of 110 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 559 | #702 of 1,324 | #57 of 120 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.2:1 | #579 of 1,301 | #67 of 118 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 4.6% | #1,299 of 1,301 | #117 of 118 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #32 of 1,312 | #30 of 119 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +36.7% | #36 of 386 | #1 of 19 |
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
559
+54 (+11%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
13.2:1
was 14.8:1
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 | 559 | 42.5 | 13.2:1 | 100% (559) |
| 2023-24 | 484 | 31.5 | 15.4:1 | 99% (481) |
| 2022-23 | 477 | 30.5 | 15.6:1 | 100% (477) |
| 2020-21 | 505 | 34 | 14.8:1 | 95% (479) |
| 2017-18 | 409 | 33 | 12.4:1 | 100% (409) |
| 2015-16 | 203 | 18 | 11.3:1 | 99% (200) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Kipp WAYS Primary Charter School.
Since 2017-18: students up 37% (409 to 559); teachers up 29% (33 to 42.5).
About Kipp WAYS Primary Charter School
Kipp WAYS Primary Charter School is the name of a medium-sized elementary school in Atlanta, Georgia. Students in kindergarten through 5 attend the school, which enrolls 559 students.
Kipp WAYS Primary Charter School belongs to Atlanta Public Schools, a district of 87 schools and 49,945 students.
Black students are the large majority at Kipp WAYS Primary Charter School, with 98% of enrollment. In Fulton County overall, about 43% of residents are Black. Kipp WAYS Primary Charter School has a diversity index of 5%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Federal data list 42.5 full-time-equivalent teachers at Kipp WAYS Primary Charter School in 2024-25, for a ratio of 13.2:1. Across elementary schools in Georgia, the average ratio is about 13.3:1. The lunch program counts 100% of students at Kipp WAYS Primary Charter School as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. The rate at public schools in Fulton County averages 62%, lower than here.
Kipp WAYS Primary Charter School is graded D by allk12, scoring above 5% of Georgia public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate on state tests with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For Kipp WAYS Primary Charter School, the prediction is 25.7% and the result is 14.5%.
Census Bureau estimates for Fulton County show that median household income is about $95,292, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 59% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 8%. Kipp WAYS Primary Charter School is one of 205 public schools in Fulton County, which together enroll about 138,270 students.
The nearest other public school, KIPP WAYS Academy Charter School, is less than a tenth of a mile away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. On average proficiency, Kipp WAYS Primary Charter School is 6th of 9 nearby schools with test data.
Locale data from NCES put Kipp WAYS Primary Charter School inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more (City: Large). Kipp WAYS Primary Charter School holds a charter, making it a public charter school.
Federal counts put enrollment at 505 in 2020-21 and 559 in 2024-25, an 11% gain. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 14.8:1 in 2020-21 to 13.2:1 in 2024-25.
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Fulton County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,076,561
Census ACS
Median income
$95,292
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
59%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
205
138,270 students
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Frequently asked questions
About Kipp WAYS Primary Charter SchoolHow many students attend Kipp WAYS Primary Charter School?
Kipp WAYS Primary Charter School enrolls approximately 559 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Kipp WAYS Primary Charter School serve?
Kipp WAYS Primary Charter School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Kipp WAYS Primary Charter School?
Approximately 13.2:1 students per teacher at Kipp WAYS Primary Charter School.
How diverse is Kipp WAYS Primary Charter School?
Kipp WAYS Primary Charter School reports a student body of 1% Hispanic, 98% Black, 2% Two or more.
What district is Kipp WAYS Primary Charter School in?
Kipp WAYS Primary Charter School is part of Atlanta Public Schools.
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