Lake Forest Elementary

Lake Forest Elementary is a medium-sized K-5 school in Atlanta, Georgia, overseen by Fulton County. The school instructs 534 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Lake Forest Elementary is one of 107 schools operated by Fulton County, a district that teaches 87,563 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Lake Forest Elementary shows that Hispanic students make up the majority at 78%. Other groups include 14% Black, 4% White, 3% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 8%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Lake Forest Elementary lists 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.9:1. The state averages around 13.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Fulton County (around 62%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Lake Forest Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.7%, the actual is 29.5%, a residual of +3.9 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Fulton County put the typical household earns roughly $95,292 per year, about 59% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Fulton County runs 205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 138,270 students), of which Lake Forest Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: High Point Elementary School, around 1.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Lake Forest Elementary comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 60.1%.

Lake Forest Elementary operates from an inner-city location.

Looking at the recent track record. Lake Forest Elementary's enrollment has ticked down 40% since 2018, when it stood at 889 (now 534). Over the same period, the Hispanic share decreased from 93% to 78%.

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