Peeples Elementary School

Peeples Elementary School is an elementary school of mid-sized scale in Fayetteville, Georgia, part of Fayette County, caters to 658 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Fayette County comprises 24 schools with combined enrollment of 19,800 students; Peeples Elementary School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Peeples Elementary School reports that the largest single group is White, at 74% of enrollment. Other groups include 9% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 6% Asian, 5% Black. The wider county runs roughly 57% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 17% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Fayette County runs at roughly 34%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Peeples Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 68.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 78.6%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Fayette County indicate the typical household earns roughly $111,978 per year, about 50% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Peeples Elementary School is one of 26 public schools in Fayette County (combined enrollment of about 20,375 students).

Nearest neighbor: Rising Starr Middle School, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Peeples Elementary School comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 69.6%.

Peeples Elementary School operates from a suburban location.

Over the past 7-year window. Peeples Elementary School's enrollment has contracted 7% since 2018, when it stood at 709 (now 658). Class-load math has fell: from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 in 2025.

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