Maynard Jackson High School

Maynard Jackson High School, a reasonably sized 9-12 campus in Atlanta, Georgia, one of the schools within Atlanta Public Schools, instructs 1,549 students, covering grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Georgia's public schools average about 1,120 students each, so Maynard Jackson High School sits 38% larger than that benchmark.

Maynard Jackson High School is one of 87 schools operated by Atlanta Public Schools, a district that hosts 49,945 students overall.

Demographically, Maynard Jackson High School records that 67% of the student body identifies as Black. Beyond that, the school logs 21% White, 8% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 43%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 107 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 15.2:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 82% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Fulton County's rate of about 62%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Maynard Jackson High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 35.1%; this one delivers 39.6%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Fulton County put median household income runs about $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), Maynard Jackson High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Parkside Elementary School, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Maynard Jackson High School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Maynard Jackson High School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 44.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 29%: 1,205 students in 2018 compared to 1,549 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment edged down from 83% to 67% over that span.

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