Virginia-Highland Elementary School

Virginia-Highland Elementary School, a mid-sized elementary campus in Atlanta, Georgia, one of the schools within Atlanta Public Schools, teaches 649 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Atlanta Public Schools runs 87 schools in total, collectively educating 49,945 students. Virginia-Highland Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Virginia-Highland Elementary School logs that White students make up the majority at 55%. Beyond that, the school records 17% Black, 11% multiracial, 10% Hispanic, 6% Asian. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 38%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.2:1. The state averages around 13.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 15% of students at Virginia-Highland Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below Fulton County's rate of about 62%.

With demographic context factored in, Virginia-Highland Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 69.4%; this one delivers 79.3%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Fulton County) shows that median household income runs about $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%. In all, Fulton County runs 205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 138,270 students), of which Virginia-Highland Elementary School is one.

Midtown High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Virginia-Highland Elementary School comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 58.0%.

Virginia-Highland Elementary School operates from a city-core location.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Virginia-Highland Elementary School community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.