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Roswell High School
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Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedBeatsExpectations
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Roswell High School
Roswell High School operates as a big senior high in Roswell, Georgia, one of the schools within Fulton County. Current enrollment sits at 2,035 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 1,120 students per school, that is 82% above typical.
Fulton County runs 107 schools in total, collectively educating 87,563 students. Roswell High School is one of those campuses.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Roswell High School shows that the largest single group is White at 53%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school shows 28% Hispanic, 12% Black, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 38% White, putting the school's mix noticeably more White than the area baseline.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 125 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 29% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably below Fulton County's rate of about 62%.
After controlling for student poverty, Roswell High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 62.4%, the actual is 64.3%, a residual of +1.9 points.
Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Fulton County) logs 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), Roswell High School is one campus in the mix.
Sweet Apple Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Roswell High School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Roswell High School at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 63.8%.
Roswell High School operates from a downtown location.
Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Roswell High School has contracted 9%, going from 2,242 students in 2018 to 2,035 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 22% to 28% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 17.8:1 in 2018 to 16.3:1 in 2025.
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