Wesley Lakes Elementary School

As a mid-tier primary school in McDonough, Georgia, Wesley Lakes Elementary School teaches 564 students from grades pre-K through 5, operated by Henry County.

Across the 53 schools in Henry County (43,012 students total), Wesley Lakes Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Wesley Lakes Elementary School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (82%). Other groups include 9% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 52% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.3:1 average. Roughly 83% of students at Wesley Lakes Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Henry County (around 63%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Wesley Lakes Elementary School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 34.3%; actual is 20.0%, a gap of -14.3 points.

Across the wider county, Henry County reports that the typical household earns roughly $83,146 per year, roughly 30% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Henry County runs 54 public schools (combined enrollment of about 43,102 students), of which Wesley Lakes Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Birch Creek Elementary School, around 1.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Wesley Lakes Elementary School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 17.1%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 19%: 693 students in 2018 compared to 564 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share climbed from 77% to 82%.

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