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S. L. Lewis Elementary School
Test scores
Georgia Milestones 2023-24 . % Proficient or DistinguishedWhat this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 26 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 30 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Georgia schools, those numbers are about 42 and 43. Reading and writing scores are up about 3 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 2 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 30% 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%.
6-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2023-24About S. L. Lewis Elementary School
S. L. Lewis Elementary School, a moderately sized primary school in College Park, Georgia, run under Fulton County, enrolls 544 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.
Fulton County comprises 107 schools with combined enrollment of 87,563 students; S. L. Lewis Elementary School is among them.
In terms of who attends, S. L. Lewis Elementary School records that 88% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Beyond that, the school lists 8% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Fulton County as a whole is about 43% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, S. L. Lewis Elementary School lists 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 100% of students at S. L. Lewis Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Fulton County (around 62%), the school's rate is north of typical.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), S. L. Lewis Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 25.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 30.2%.
Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Fulton County put median household earnings sit near $95,292, about 59% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. S. L. Lewis Elementary School is one of 205 public schools in Fulton County (combined enrollment of about 138,270 students).
Nearest neighbor: Hapeville Charter Career Academy, around 1.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around S. L. Lewis Elementary School. On composite proficiency, S. L. Lewis Elementary School comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 26.6%.
S. L. Lewis Elementary School operates from an outer-ring location.
Five-year trend. S. L. Lewis Elementary School's enrollment has contracted 16% since 2018, when it stood at 647 (now 544). The Black share of enrollment declined from 94% to 88% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 in 2024.
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