About Atlanta Public Schools
Atlanta Public Schools is a public school system serving Fulton County, Georgia, based in Atlanta. It serves 49,945 students across 87 schools spanning PreK–12, and is classified as a city: large district. By enrollment it is the #7 largest of Georgia’s 234 school systems.
Size and structure
Atlanta Public Schools enrolls 49,945 students in 87 schools — an average of about 574 students per school. It serves grades PreK–12 and ranks #7 of 234 statewide by enrollment.
Who the district serves
Student race and ethnicity in Atlanta Public Schools, from the NCES Common Core of Data (49,945 students reported):
For economically-disadvantaged, English-learner, and special-education shares, plus school-by-school detail, see the federal sources in the full-data section.
Teachers & staff
Atlanta Public Schools employs about 4,112 full-time-equivalent teachers for a student–teacher ratio of 12.2:1 — below the Georgia average of about 14.1:1, meaning comparatively smaller classes. Total district staff is roughly 9,746.
Counselor and librarian/media counts are not published at the district level in the current NCES release; see the federal full-data links for staffing detail.
How Georgia funds schools
District-level per-pupil spending and the local/state/federal revenue split for Atlanta Public Schools are published in the federal school-finance files — see the full-data links below for the current figures.
Report card & state results
Georgia rates schools and districts on the College and Career Ready Performance Index (CCRPI), scoring content mastery, progress, closing gaps, readiness and (for high schools) graduation rate. Look up Atlanta Public Schools on the state’s School Grades report.
Accreditation status
Most Georgia districts are accredited through Cognia (the former SACS CASI); districts still commonly refer to “SACS” accreditation, now administered by Cognia. Look up Atlanta Public Schools in the free Cognia registry.
Atlanta Public Schools vs. Georgia
See every Georgia district side by side in the Georgia directory.
Look up Atlanta Public Schools’s full data
These official sources carry the district-level detail — finances, discipline, equity, test scores, boundaries. Direct links for this district (via its NCES ID):