Public school / Primary
Fowler Drive Elementary School
Athens, Georgia
- NCES ID
- 130117000457
- District
- Clarke County
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Fowler Drive Elementary School is a public primary school in Athens, Georgia, run by Clarke County. It enrols 388 students — the 52747th largest of 2,332 public schools in Georgia.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
388
Teachers
47.0
Students per teacher
8.3
Free or reduced-price lunch
82.7%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Clarke County
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Clarke Central High School1,836 students
- 2Cedar Shoals High School1,443 students
- 3Burney-Harris-Lyons Middle School728 students
- 4Clarke Middle School708 students
- 5Whitehead Road Elementary School691 students
- 6Coile Middle School635 students
- 7Hilsman Middle School628 students
- 8Oglethorpe Avenue Elementary School581 students
- Enrollment−41.2%
- Teachers+2.2%
- Students per teacher−42.0%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+20.6%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory