Sara Rawson Smith Elementary School

Sara Rawson Smith Elementary School is an average-sized elementary school in Atlanta, Georgia, one of the schools within Atlanta Public Schools. The school teaches 851 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Georgia's public schools average about 605 students each, so Sara Rawson Smith Elementary School sits 41% bigger than that benchmark.

Atlanta Public Schools comprises 87 schools with combined enrollment of 49,945 students; Sara Rawson Smith Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Sara Rawson Smith Elementary School reports that the most-represented group is Black (33%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school lists 27% White, 25% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 6% Asian. That is noticeably less Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 43%.

In terms of school funding signals, Sara Rawson Smith Elementary School lists 60 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.3:1, putting Sara Rawson Smith Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 35% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Fulton County runs at roughly 62%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Sara Rawson Smith Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 59.4%, the actual is 50.5%, a residual of -9.0 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Fulton County indicate the typical household earns roughly $95,292 per year, roughly 59% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Fulton County's 205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 138,270 students), Sara Rawson Smith Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Garden Hills Elementary School, roughly 1.8 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Sara Rawson Smith Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Sara Rawson Smith Elementary School at 2nd of 9; the average score across the group is 41.2%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 12%: 972 students in 2018 compared to 851 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 48% to 27% over that span.

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