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Milton High School
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Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedWhat this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 58 of every 100 students at this school do math at grade level. The Georgia average is about 45 of 100. Math scores are up about 7 points since 2021.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 67% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 68% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Milton High School
Located at 13025 Birmingham Hwy, in Alpharetta, Georgia, Milton High School is a sizable four-year high school that teaches 1,999 students (grades 9 through 12), one of the schools within Fulton County. By comparison, Georgia's public schools average about 1,120 students each, so Milton High School sits 78% above that benchmark.
Milton High School is one of 107 schools operated by Fulton County, a district that educates 87,563 students overall.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Milton High School logs that the largest single group is White, at 58% of enrollment. Other groups include 18% Hispanic, 10% Black, 10% Asian, 4% multiracial. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 38%.
On the resource side, Milton High School lists 109 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.4:1. The state averages around 15.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 17% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Fulton County (around 62%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Milton High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 68.4%, the actual is 67.1%, a residual of -1.4 points.
In the area at large, community-level numbers for Fulton County indicate 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 Milton High School is one.
Nearest neighbor: Northwestern Middle School, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Milton High School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 74.5%.
The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.
Over the past 7-year window. Milton High School's enrollment has edged down 16% since 2018, when it stood at 2,382 (now 1,999). The Hispanic share of enrollment expanded from 12% to 18% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 19.7:1 in 2018 to 18.4:1 today.
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