William J. Scott Elementary School

William J. Scott Elementary School is one of the intimate K-5 schools in Atlanta, Georgia, one of the schools within Atlanta Public Schools, with 319 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 47% smaller than the typical public school in Georgia, which averages around 605 students.

William J. Scott Elementary School is one of 87 schools operated by Atlanta Public Schools, a district that teaches 49,945 students overall.

In terms of who attends, William J. Scott Elementary School shows that nearly all students (80%) are Black. The remainder comes out to 19% Hispanic. By comparison, Fulton County as a whole is about 43% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, William J. Scott Elementary School reports 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.3:1, putting William J. Scott Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Fulton County runs at roughly 62%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, William J. Scott Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.7%, the actual is 21.4%, a residual of -4.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Fulton County) logs that median household earnings sit near $95,292, roughly 59% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. William J. Scott Elementary School is one of 205 public schools in Fulton County (combined enrollment of about 138,270 students).

Nearest neighbor: Westside Atlanta Charter School, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around William J. Scott Elementary School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), William J. Scott Elementary School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 27.7%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 21%: 405 students in 2018 compared to 319 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment decreased from 95% to 80% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 12.4:1 in 2018 to 10.5:1 in 2025.

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