West Manor Elementary School

Located at 570 Lynhurst Dr SW, in Atlanta, Georgia, West Manor Elementary School is a small K-5 school that educates 247 students (grades K through 5), one of the schools within Atlanta Public Schools. That puts it 59% leaner than the typical public school in Georgia, which averages around 605 students.

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

On demographics, West Manor Elementary School logs that nearly all students (81%) are Black. Other groups include 15% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 43% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school employs 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.3:1 average. Roughly 100% of students at West Manor Elementary School qualify 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 higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, West Manor 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 33.4%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Fulton County indicate the typical household earns roughly $95,292 per year, 59% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. West Manor Elementary School is one of 205 public schools in Fulton County (combined enrollment of about 138,270 students).

Nearest neighbor: Jean Childs Young Middle School, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, West Manor Elementary School comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 23.7%.

West Manor Elementary School operates from a city-core location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at West Manor Elementary School has shrank 16%, going from 294 students in 2018 to 247 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 86% to 81% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 10.9:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, the feed for West Manor Elementary School typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.