T. J. Perkerson Elementary School

T. J. Perkerson Elementary School is one of the tight-knit primary schools in Atlanta, Georgia, operated by Atlanta Public Schools, with 338 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 44% smaller than the typical public school in Georgia, which averages around 605 students.

Atlanta Public Schools comprises 87 schools with combined enrollment of 49,945 students; T. J. Perkerson Elementary School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, T. J. Perkerson Elementary School reports that 91% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Other groups include 5% Hispanic, 3% White. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 43%.

On the resource side, T. J. Perkerson Elementary School reports 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.3:1 average. Roughly 100% of students at T. J. Perkerson Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Fulton County's rate of about 62%.

With demographic context factored in, T. J. Perkerson Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 25.7%; this one delivers 18.1%.

In the surrounding community, Fulton County reports that median household earnings sit near $95,292, about 59% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Fulton County's 205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 138,270 students), T. J. Perkerson Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Ethos Classical Charter School, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around T. J. Perkerson Elementary School. On composite proficiency, T. J. Perkerson Elementary School comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 19.4%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Over the past 7-year window. T. J. Perkerson Elementary School's enrollment has edged down 26% since 2018, when it stood at 455 (now 338). Class-load math has pulled in: from 12.4:1 in 2018 to 9.8:1 in 2025.

On the community side, members of the T. J. Perkerson Elementary School community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.