Sweet Apple Elementary School

Sweet Apple Elementary School is one of the medium-sized elementary campuss in Roswell, Georgia, one of the schools within Fulton County, with 845 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 40% above the typical public school in Georgia, which averages around 605 students.

Fulton County runs 107 schools in total, collectively educating 87,563 students. Sweet Apple Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Sweet Apple Elementary School logs that White students make up the majority at 76%. The remainder looks like 8% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 5% Asian, 4% Black. By comparison, Fulton County as a whole is about 38% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Sweet Apple Elementary School has 61 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 9% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Fulton County runs at roughly 62%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Sweet Apple Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 72.9%, the actual is 81.3%, a residual of +8.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Fulton County shows median household income runs about $95,292, 59% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Sweet Apple Elementary School is one of 205 public schools in Fulton County (combined enrollment of about 138,270 students).

The closest other public school is Fulton Academy of Science and Technology, roughly 1.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Sweet Apple Elementary School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Sweet Apple Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 66.6%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Sweet Apple Elementary School has ticked up 10%, going from 769 students in 2018 to 845 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 80% to 76%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 today.

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