Public school / Primary
Park Creek Elementary School
Dalton, Georgia
- NCES ID
- 130162002458
- District
- Dalton Public Schools
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Park Creek Elementary School is a public primary school in Dalton, Georgia, run by Dalton Public Schools. It enrols 576 students — the 28996th 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
576
Teachers
53.0
Students per teacher
10.9
Free or reduced-price lunch
90.1%
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 Dalton Public Schools
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.
- 1Dalton High School1,382 students
- 2Dalton Jr. High School1,162 students
- 3Hammond Creek Middle School1,086 students
- 4Brookwood Elementary School724 students
- 5City Park Elementary School699 students
- 6Blue Ridge Elementary School642 students
- 7Westwood Elementary School579 students
- 8Park Creek Elementary School576 students
- Enrollment−12.7%
- Teachers+15.2%
- Students per teacher−23.8%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+31.4%
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