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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the Nolan Elementary School administration to hear?
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Enrollment
779
Elementary
DISTRICT 616 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FULTON COUNTY·NCES 130228000970
Nolan Elementary School
2725 Creel Rd, College Park, GA 30349 · (470) 254-7950 · Fulton County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL779 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
14.7:1
53 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.2:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
779 students
DISTRICT 58% · 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 | 65 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 126 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 116 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 106 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 135 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 116 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 115 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (126) is 10% larger than its 5th grade class (115).
Student demographics
22%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 72% · 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 Fulton County. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedEnglish Language Arts
22.6%
GA avg 40.1% . +4.6pp since 2021
Math
29.5%
GA avg 44.6% . +1.4pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 23 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 29 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 5 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 1 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 22.6% | 29.5% |
| 2023-24 | 24.8% | 28.9% |
| 2022-23 | 19.6% | 30.1% |
| 2021-22 | 18.0% | 28.1% |
% 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
25.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
25.7%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 25% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 26% 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 Nolan Elementary School
Nolan Elementary School's state test result (25.4% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nolan Elementary School this school | 779 | 100.0% | 25.4% |
| Renaissance Elementary School Fairburn | 750 | 100.0% | 40.3% |
| DeKalb Agriculture Technology and Environment School Stone Mountain | 760 | 99.9% | 51.0% |
| Princeton Elementary School Lithonia | 751 | 100.0% | 18.5% |
| Mary A Buckner Academy Columbus | 789 | 100.0% | N/A |
| Stoneview Elementary School Lithonia | 782 | 100.0% | 10.5% |
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 Nolan Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Fulton County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 25.4% | #922 of 1,208 | #76 of 113 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 29.5% | #868 of 1,215 ▼ 2 | #69 of 113 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 22.6% | #941 of 1,215 ▼ 17 | #81 of 113 ▼ 6 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +3.0pp | #527 of 1,183 | #73 of 110 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 779 | #258 of 1,324 | #11 of 120 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.7:1 | #1,029 of 1,301 | #101 of 118 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 21.8% | #1,175 of 1,301 | #76 of 118 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #226 of 1,312 | #42 of 119 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +2.2% | #332 of 386 | #17 of 19 |
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
779
+98 (+14%) vs 2020
+64% since 1990-91, when it was 474
Student : Teacher
14.7:1
was 14.5:1
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 | 779 | 53 | 14.7:1 | 100% (779) |
| 2023-24 | 665 | 47.8 | 13.9:1 | 100% (665) |
| 2022-23 | 710 | 47 | 15.1:1 | 100% (710) |
| 2020-21 | 681 | 47 | 14.5:1 | 100% (681) |
| 2017-18 | 762 | 48.8 | 15.6:1 | 100% (762) |
| 2015-16 | 768 | 49 | 15.7:1 | 100% (765) |
| 2010-11 | 774 | 50 | 15.5:1 | 87% (672) |
| 2000-01 | 581 | 38 | 15.3:1 | 69% (401) |
| 1990-91 | 474 | 29 | 16.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Nolan Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 2% (762 to 779); teachers up 9% (48.8 to 53).
About Nolan Elementary School
Nolan Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school in College Park, Georgia, administered by Fulton County. It teaches 779 students in pre-K through 5. By comparison, elementary schools in Georgia enroll about 605 students on average.
Fulton County enrolls 87,563 students in 107 schools, including Nolan Elementary School.
A large majority of enrollment at Nolan Elementary School is Black, at 88%. Beyond that, enrollment is 9% Hispanic and 2% multiracial. The Black share of the county population is lower, at 43%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Nolan Elementary School scores 22%.
A staff of 53 full-time-equivalent teachers puts the student-to-teacher ratio at 14.7:1. The gap from the 13.3:1 average for elementary schools in Georgia is 1.4 students per teacher. By family income, 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Compared with the 62% average for public schools in Fulton County, the school's rate is higher.
Nolan Elementary School sits between the top and bottom 10% of Georgia schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate across its state test results of 25.4% and a predicted 25.7%.
For Fulton County, Census Bureau data show median household income comes to about $95,292, about 59% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 8%. The county has 205 public schools and about 138,270 students.
S. L. Lewis Elementary School, about 1.4 miles away, is the closest public school. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Among the 9 closest schools with test data, this one included, Nolan Elementary School ranks 6th on average proficiency.
By NCES locale, the school is Suburb: Large, or in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school's enrollment rose 14% from 2020-21 to 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 Fulton County
- Westlake High SchoolHigh · 2,056 students
- Roswell High SchoolHigh · 2,035 students
- Alpharetta High SchoolHigh · 2,024 students
- Milton High SchoolHigh · 1,999 students
- Langston Hughes High SchoolHigh · 1,891 students
- Johns Creek High SchoolHigh · 1,789 students
Other schools in College Park
- Banneker High SchoolHigh · 1,695 students
- North Clayton High SchoolHigh · 1,124 students
- Main Street Charter AcademyElementary · 817 students
- North Clayton Middle SchoolMiddle · 817 students
- McNair Middle SchoolMiddle · 727 students
- Wolf Creek ElementaryElementary · 712 students
Other Nolan Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Nolan Elementary. Nolan Elementary School is the largest of the 2.
- Nolan Elementary SchoolSignal Mountain, TN · 729 students
Nearby schools
- S. L. Lewis Elementary School1.4 mi · 544
- Bethune Elementary School1.4 mi · 608
- McNair Middle School1.5 mi · 727
- Hapeville Charter Career Academy1.7 mi · 638
- Oliver Elementary School2.0 mi · 452
- Banneker High School2.6 mi · 1,695
Frequently asked questions
About Nolan Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Nolan Elementary School?
Nolan Elementary School enrolls approximately 779 students in grades PK-05.
Is Nolan Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Nolan Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at Nolan Elementary School?
Approximately 14.7:1 students per teacher at Nolan Elementary School.
How diverse is Nolan Elementary School?
Nolan Elementary School reports a student body of 0% White, 9% Hispanic, 88% Black, 0% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is Nolan Elementary School in?
Nolan Elementary School is part of Fulton County.
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