Peyton Forest Elementary School

Peyton Forest Elementary School, a modestly sized elementary school in Atlanta, Georgia, overseen by Atlanta Public Schools, caters to 283 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Georgia's public schools average about 605 students each, so Peyton Forest Elementary School sits 53% smaller than that benchmark.

Within Atlanta Public Schools, which oversees 87 schools and 49,945 students, Peyton Forest Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Peyton Forest Elementary School shows that 86% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority; the rest reads as 12% Hispanic. By comparison, Fulton County as a whole is about 43% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.3:1 average. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Fulton County runs at roughly 62%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Peyton Forest Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 25.7%; this one delivers 19.9%.

In the area at large, Fulton County reports that median household income runs about $95,292, 59% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Fulton County's 205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 138,270 students), Peyton Forest Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Atlanta SMART Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Peyton Forest Elementary School comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 24.5%.

Peyton Forest Elementary School operates from a city-core location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 46%: 527 students in 2018 compared to 283 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.