Poplar Road Elementary School

Poplar Road Elementary School, a reasonably sized elementary school in Sharpsburg, Georgia, run under Coweta County, caters to 656 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Within Coweta County, which oversees 29 schools and 23,064 students, Poplar Road Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Poplar Road Elementary School logs that White students make up the majority at 57%. Beyond that, the school reports 24% Black, 9% multiracial, 8% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 70% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.3:1 average. An estimated 48% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Poplar Road Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 52.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 39.9%.

Around the school, census data for Coweta County shows the typical household earns roughly $95,548 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Coweta County runs 31 public schools (combined enrollment of about 23,423 students), of which Poplar Road Elementary School is one.

East Coweta High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Poplar Road Elementary School ranks 8th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 47.8%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Poplar Road Elementary School has climbed 12%, going from 588 students in 2018 to 656 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 65% to 57%.

On this page, members of the Poplar Road Elementary School community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.