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What's the one class at Morris Brandon Elementary School every student should take?
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Enrollment
911
Elementary
DISTRICT 470 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ATLANTA PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 130012000127
Morris Brandon Elementary School
2741 Howell Mill Rd NW, Atlanta, GA 30327 · (404) 802-7250 · Fulton County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL911 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
16.1:1
56 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.6:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
19%
175 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 21 | 2% |
| Kindergarten | 164 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 156 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 164 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 122 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 160 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 124 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (164) is 32% larger than its 5th grade class (124).
Student demographics
59%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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on published attendance-zone data from Atlanta Public Schools. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedEnglish Language Arts
74.5%
GA avg 40.1% . +7.9pp since 2021
Math
71.5%
GA avg 44.6% . -1.0pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 75 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 72 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 8 points since 2021, while math scores are down about 1 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 74.5% | 71.5% |
| 2023-24 | 75.0% | 73.7% |
| 2022-23 | 70.4% | 69.1% |
| 2021-22 | 66.7% | 72.6% |
% 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
71.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
67.4%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 72% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 67% 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 Morris Brandon Elementary School
Morris Brandon Elementary School's state test result (71.6% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Morris Brandon Elementary School this school | 911 | 19.2% | 71.6% |
| Kemp Elementary School Powder Springs | 894 | 21.5% | 65.0% |
| Ford Elementary School Acworth | 750 | 16.9% | 64.0% |
| Parkway Elementary School Evans | 795 | 19.6% | 75.3% |
| Frances Meeks Elementary School Richmond Hill | 908 | 16.9% | 70.9% |
| Roswell North Elementary School Roswell | 950 | 19.5% | 74.4% |
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 Morris Brandon Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Fulton County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 71.6% | #85 of 1,208 | #26 of 113 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 71.5% | #113 of 1,215 ▼ 16 | #25 of 113 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 74.5% | #42 of 1,215 ▲ 9 | #20 of 113 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +3.4pp | #496 of 1,183 | #66 of 110 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 911 | #129 of 1,324 | #2 of 120 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.1:1 | #1,238 of 1,301 | #113 of 118 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 59.2% | #516 of 1,301 | #35 of 118 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 19.2% | #1,230 of 1,312 | #94 of 119 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -10.4% | #511 of 854 | #65 of 92 |
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
911
+54 (+6%) vs 2020
+131% since 1990-91, when it was 395
Student : Teacher
16.1:1
was 13.4:1
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 | 911 | 56.4 | 16.1:1 | 19% (175) |
| 2023-24 | 895 | 63.3 | 14.1:1 | 19% (169) |
| 2022-23 | 865 | 59.1 | 14.6:1 | 12% (106) |
| 2020-21 | 857 | 64 | 13.4:1 | 3% (29) |
| 2017-18 | 1,017 | 65 | 15.7:1 | 8% (85) |
| 2015-16 | 1,049 | 70 | 15.0:1 | 9% (99) |
| 2010-11 | 1,136 | 78 | 14.6:1 | 14% (156) |
| 2000-01 | 528 | 33 | 16.0:1 | 4% (22) |
| 1990-91 | 395 | 30 | 13.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Morris Brandon Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 10% (1,017 to 911); teachers down 13% (65 to 56.4).
About Morris Brandon Elementary School
Morris Brandon Elementary School is a large elementary school in Atlanta, Georgia. The school serves 911 students in pre-K through 5 in 2024-25. The average among elementary schools in Georgia is roughly 605 students; this school is 51% above that.
Atlanta Public Schools enrolls 49,945 students, and its 87 schools include Morris Brandon Elementary School.
At 58%, White students outnumber all other groups at Morris Brandon Elementary School combined. After that, the student body is 25% Black, 9% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, and 4% Asian. Among all residents of Fulton County, the White share is about 38%. By the diversity index, Morris Brandon Elementary School comes in at 59%.
A ratio of 16.1:1 comes from the school's 56.4 full-time-equivalent teachers. The 13.3:1 average for elementary schools in Georgia is lower than this school's figure. The lunch program counts 19% of students at Morris Brandon Elementary School as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. Among public schools in Fulton County, the average eligibility rate is 62%.
On BeatsExpectations, Morris Brandon Elementary School is 4.2 points above its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of Georgia schools.
Fulton County census figures 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%. A total of 205 public schools operate in Fulton County, serving about 138,270 students.
Nearest public school: Willis A. Sutton Middle School, about 0.5 miles away. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. Compared with its nearest neighbors, Morris Brandon Elementary School ranks 2nd of 9 on average proficiency.
NCES describes the area around Morris Brandon Elementary School as City: Large, meaning inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Morris Brandon Elementary School had 857 students in 2020-21 and 911 in 2024-25, a 6% rise. The ratio was 13.4:1 in 2020-21 and 16.1:1 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
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Atlanta Public Schools
- North Atlanta High SchoolHigh · 2,368 students
- Midtown High SchoolHigh · 1,696 students
- Willis A. Sutton Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,619 students
- Maynard Jackson High SchoolHigh · 1,549 students
- Benjamin E. Mays High SchoolHigh · 1,338 students
- Frederick Douglass High SchoolHigh · 1,296 students
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- Westlake High SchoolHigh · 2,056 students
- Riverwood International Charter SchoolHigh · 1,737 students
- Sequoyah Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,713 students
Nearby schools
- Willis A. Sutton Middle School0.5 mi · 1,619
- Atlanta Classical Academy1.1 mi · 697
- E. Rivers Elementary School1.6 mi · 699
- Garden Hills Elementary School2.1 mi · 494
- Bolton Academy Elementary2.4 mi · 590
- Sara Rawson Smith Elementary School3.0 mi · 851
Frequently asked questions
About Morris Brandon Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Morris Brandon Elementary School?
Morris Brandon Elementary School enrolls approximately 911 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Morris Brandon Elementary School serve?
Morris Brandon Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Morris Brandon Elementary School?
Approximately 16.1:1 students per teacher at Morris Brandon Elementary School.
How diverse is Morris Brandon Elementary School?
Morris Brandon Elementary School reports a student body of 58% White, 9% Hispanic, 25% Black, 4% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is Morris Brandon Elementary School in?
Morris Brandon Elementary School is part of Atlanta Public Schools.
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