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Enrollment
618
Elementary
DISTRICT 584 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CLAYTON COUNTY·NCES 130123000471
Northcutt Elementary School
5451 W Fayetteville Rd, College Park, GA 30349 · (770) 994-4020 · Clayton County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL618 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 30% of Georgia public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- A+Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Georgia public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.1:1
44 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.0:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
618 students
DISTRICT 99% · 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 | 36 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 106 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 104 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 76 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 95 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 98 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 103 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (106) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (103).
Student demographics
33%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 48% · 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
Test scores
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedEnglish Language Arts
23.7%
GA avg 40.1% . +13.8pp since 2021
Math
25.7%
GA avg 44.6% . +12.8pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 24 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 26 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 14 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 13 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 23.7% | 25.7% |
| 2023-24 | 22.2% | 23.9% |
| 2022-23 | 14.4% | 17.9% |
| 2021-22 | 9.9% | 12.9% |
% 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
22.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
25.7%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 23% 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 Northcutt Elementary School
Northcutt Elementary School's state test result (22.5% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Northcutt Elementary School this school | 618 | 100.0% | 22.5% |
| Brown Elementary School Jonesboro | 671 | 100.0% | 25.2% |
| Kemp Primary Hampton | 626 | 100.0% | N/A |
| Peek's Chapel Elementary Conyers | 591 | 100.0% | 25.7% |
| Kemp Elementary School Hampton | 586 | 100.0% | 27.3% |
| East Clayton Elementary School Ellenwood | 641 | 100.0% | 18.1% |
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 Northcutt Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Clayton County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 22.5% | #980 of 1,208 | #18 of 37 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 25.7% | #948 of 1,215 ▲ 20 | #13 of 37 ▲ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 23.7% | #912 of 1,215 ▲ 87 | #12 of 37 ▲ 9 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +13.3pp | #54 of 1,183 | #4 of 36 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 618 | #552 of 1,324 | #18 of 41 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.1:1 | #848 of 1,301 | #21 of 40 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 33.4% | #1,028 of 1,301 | #32 of 40 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #80 of 1,312 | #5 of 41 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -12.5% | #452 of 854 | #28 of 34 |
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
618
+27 (+5%) vs 2020
-31% since 1990-91, when it was 890
Student : Teacher
14.1:1
was 14.1:1
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 | 618 | 44 | 14.1:1 | 100% (618) |
| 2023-24 | 626 | 47 | 13.3:1 | 100% (626) |
| 2022-23 | 693 | 46 | 15.1:1 | 90% (626) |
| 2020-21 | 591 | 42 | 14.1:1 | 93% (549) |
| 2017-18 | 706 | 40 | 17.6:1 | 99% (702) |
| 2015-16 | 663 | 34 | 19.5:1 | 100% (660) |
| 2010-11 | 708 | 43 | 16.5:1 | 84% (596) |
| 2000-01 | 550 | 33 | 16.7:1 | 83% (455) |
| 1990-91 | 890 | 45 | 19.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Northcutt Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 12% (706 to 618); teachers up 10% (40 to 44).
About Northcutt Elementary School
Northcutt Elementary School is an elementary school in College Park, Georgia, and it is part of Clayton County. The school offers pre-K through 5 and enrolls 618 students.
Clayton County has 51,326 students in 68 schools, and Northcutt Elementary School is one of those schools.
By race and ethnicity, Northcutt Elementary School is 80% Black. The remaining shares are 13% Hispanic and 4% multiracial. Census estimates put the Black share of Clayton County's population at about 69%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Northcutt Elementary School scores 33%.
Based on 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, Northcutt Elementary School has a ratio of 14.1:1. The average for elementary schools in Georgia, 13.3:1, is lower. Income data for the school show 100% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
On the allk12 Grade, Northcutt Elementary School lands at C, ahead of 30% of Georgia public elementary schools.
Northcutt Elementary School's actual average proficiency rate across its state test results (22.5%) and its predicted rate (25.7%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of Georgia schools.
In Clayton County, home to about 298,924 people, the median household earns about $59,806 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 23% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 15%. Northcutt Elementary School shares Clayton County with 72 other public schools.
Of the public schools around it, Northcutt Elementary School is closest to North Clayton Middle School, about 0.1 miles away. Northcutt Elementary School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Local comparison: Northcutt Elementary School ranks 3rd of 8 nearby schools, at 22.5% versus an 18.7% average.
The school's federal locale classification is Suburb: Large.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment rose from 591 to 618, a 5% increase.
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Clayton County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
298,924
Census ACS
Median income
$59,806
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
23%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
15%
Below federal line
Schools in county
73
63,156 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Clayton County
- Morrow High SchoolHigh · 2,077 students
- Lovejoy High SchoolHigh · 2,049 students
- Forest Park High SchoolHigh · 1,711 students
- Charles R. Drew High SchoolHigh · 1,708 students
- Mundy's Mill High SchoolHigh · 1,665 students
- Jonesboro High SchoolHigh · 1,630 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
- Nolan Elementary SchoolElementary · 779 students
- McNair Middle SchoolMiddle · 727 students
Nearby schools
- North Clayton Middle School0.1 mi · 817
- North Clayton High School0.5 mi · 1,124
- Georgia Cyber Academy (Virtual)0.6 mi · 9,952
- West Clayton Elementary School1.0 mi · 464
- Skyview High School1.4 mi · 346
- Heritage Elementary School1.6 mi · 597
Frequently asked questions
About Northcutt Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Northcutt Elementary School?
Northcutt Elementary School enrolls approximately 618 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Northcutt Elementary School serve?
Northcutt Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Northcutt Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Northcutt Elementary School is approximately 14.1:1 (44 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Northcutt Elementary School?
Northcutt Elementary School reports a student body of 13% Hispanic, 80% Black, 2% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is Northcutt Elementary School public or private?
Northcutt Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Clayton County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.