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Randolph Elementary School
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Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedWhat this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 35 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 36 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Georgia schools, those numbers are about 40 and 45. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2021, while math scores are up about 14 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 34% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Randolph Elementary School
Randolph Elementary School operates as a modestly sized K-5 school in Atlanta, Georgia, operated by Fulton County. Current enrollment sits at 497 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.
Fulton County runs 107 schools in total, collectively educating 87,563 students. Randolph Elementary School is one of those campuses.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Randolph Elementary School reports that 91% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Other groups include 5% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 43% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Fulton County (around 62%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Randolph Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 25.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 33.8%.
Zooming out to the county, census data for Fulton County shows median household income runs about $95,292, 59% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Randolph Elementary School is one of 205 public schools in Fulton County (combined enrollment of about 138,270 students).
The closest other public school is Sandtown Middle School, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Randolph Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Randolph Elementary School comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 31.1%.
The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 13%: 571 students in 2018 compared to 497 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share fell from 96% to 91%.
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