Lake City Elementary School

Lake City Elementary School is one of the tight-knit primary schools in Lake City, Georgia, one of the schools within Clayton County, with 479 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Georgia's public schools average about 605 students each, so Lake City Elementary School sits 21% below that benchmark.

Clayton County comprises 68 schools with combined enrollment of 51,326 students; Lake City Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Lake City Elementary School logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 51%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder comes out to 30% Black, 13% Asian, 3% multiracial, 2% White. By comparison, Clayton County as a whole is about 15% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.7:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Lake City Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 25.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 27.4%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Clayton County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $59,806 per year, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Clayton County runs 73 public schools (combined enrollment of about 63,156 students), of which Lake City Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Forest Park High School, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Lake City Elementary School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Lake City Elementary School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 27.0%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lake City Elementary School has decreased 16%, going from 570 students in 2018 to 479 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 45% to 51% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 today.

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