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Lake Windward Elementary School
Test scores
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedWhat this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 81 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 88 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 2 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 2 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 85% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 71% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Lake Windward Elementary School
Lake Windward Elementary School is an elementary school of mid-sized scale in Alpharetta, Georgia, part of Fulton County, enrolling 672 students in grades pre-K through 5.
Within Fulton County, which oversees 107 schools and 87,563 students, Lake Windward Elementary School is one campus in the system.
Demographically, Lake Windward Elementary School logs that 37% of students identify as Asian, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school reports 31% White, 14% Hispanic, 9% Black, 9% multiracial. By comparison, Fulton County as a whole is about 8% Asian, so the school skews visibly more Asian than its surroundings.
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.1:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 12% of students at Lake Windward Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than Fulton County's rate of about 62%.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Lake Windward Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 71.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 84.7%.
In the broader community, community-level numbers for Fulton County indicate median household earnings sit near $95,292, roughly 59% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Fulton County's 205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 138,270 students), Lake Windward Elementary School is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Webb Bridge Middle School, around 1.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Lake Windward Elementary School comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 77.0%.
Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 10%: 748 students in 2018 compared to 672 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 44% to 31% across the same window.
Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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