Willis A. Sutton Middle School

Willis A. Sutton Middle School, a heavily attended 6-8 campus in Atlanta, Georgia, overseen by Atlanta Public Schools, serves 1,619 students, covering grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Georgia's public schools average about 763 students each, so Willis A. Sutton Middle School sits 112% bigger than that benchmark.

Within Atlanta Public Schools, which oversees 87 schools and 49,945 students, Willis A. Sutton Middle School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Willis A. Sutton Middle School reports that the largest single group is Black at 39%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 27% White, 24% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 2% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 109 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 37% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Fulton County (around 62%), the school's rate is south of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Willis A. Sutton Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.0%, the actual is 49.9%, a residual of -8.1 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Fulton County indicate median household income runs about $95,292, 59% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Fulton County runs 205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 138,270 students), of which Willis A. Sutton Middle School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Morris Brandon Elementary School, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Willis A. Sutton Middle School comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 56.7%.

Willis A. Sutton Middle School operates from a downtown location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Willis A. Sutton Middle School has increased 4%, going from 1,552 students in 2018 to 1,619 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 37% to 27% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.2:1 in 2018 to 14.9:1 in 2025.

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