Renaissance Elementary School

Renaissance Elementary School is an elementary-level community of average-sized scale in Fairburn, Georgia, one of the schools within Fulton County, hosting 750 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 24% larger than the typical public school in Georgia, which averages around 605 students.

Within Fulton County, which oversees 107 schools and 87,563 students, Renaissance Elementary School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Renaissance Elementary School logs that 88% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Other groups include 9% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Fulton County as a whole is about 43% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.0:1. 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, 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 meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Renaissance 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 40.3%.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Fulton County put the typical household earns roughly $95,292 per year, about 59% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Renaissance Elementary School is one of 205 public schools in Fulton County (combined enrollment of about 138,270 students).

The closest other public school is Langston Hughes High School, roughly 0.4 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Renaissance Elementary School comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 36.0%.

Renaissance Elementary School operates from a rural location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Renaissance Elementary School's enrollment has edged up 10% since 2018, when it stood at 681 (now 750). Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 3% to 9%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 15.0:1 today.

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