Oakley Elementary School

Oakley Elementary School is a reasonably sized elementary school in Union City, Georgia, part of Fulton County. The school teaches 733 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Georgia's public schools average about 605 students each, so Oakley Elementary School sits 21% bigger than that benchmark.

Fulton County comprises 107 schools with combined enrollment of 87,563 students; Oakley Elementary School is among them.

On demographics, Oakley Elementary School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (90%). Other groups include 6% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 43% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.9:1. The state averages about 13.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 100% of students at Oakley Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Fulton County's rate of about 62%.

With demographic context factored in, Oakley Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 25.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 32.7%.

Across the wider county, census data for Fulton County shows the typical household earns roughly $95,292 per year, roughly 59% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Fulton County's 205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 138,270 students), Oakley Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

S. L. Lewis Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.8 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Oakley Elementary School comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 31.5%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 11%: 821 students in 2018 compared to 733 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 in 2025.

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