Sandy Creek High School

Set in Tyrone, Georgia, Sandy Creek High School is a reasonably sized 9-12 campus, overseen by Fayette County. It instructs 1,189 students across grades 9 through 12.

Within Fayette County, which oversees 24 schools and 19,800 students, Sandy Creek High School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Sandy Creek High School lists that Black students make up the majority at 62%. Beyond that, the school logs 19% Hispanic, 10% White, 6% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Fayette County as a whole is about 26% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 88 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.2:1, putting Sandy Creek High School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 45% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Fayette County (around 34%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Sandy Creek High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 54.0%; this one delivers 51.7%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Fayette County shows median household income runs about $111,978, 50% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Sandy Creek High School is one of 26 public schools in Fayette County (combined enrollment of about 20,375 students).

Nearest neighbor: Robert J. Burch Elementary School, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 7 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Sandy Creek High School comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 60.3%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Sandy Creek High School has increased 7%, going from 1,112 students in 2018 to 1,189 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 18% to 10%.

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