Public school / High
South Paulding High School
Douglasville, Georgia
- NCES ID
- 130402003438
- District
- Paulding County
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
South Paulding High School is a public high school in Douglasville, Georgia, run by Paulding County. It enrols 1,911 students — the 2086th 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
1,911
Teachers
104.0
Students per teacher
18.4
Free or reduced-price lunch
36.0%
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 Paulding 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.
- 1North Paulding High School2,986 students
- 2Paulding County High School2,005 students
- 3South Paulding High School1,911 students
- 4East Paulding High School1,905 students
- 5Sammy Mcclure Sr. Middle School1,536 students
- 6Hiram High School1,468 students
- 7Floyd L. Shelton Elementary School at Crossroad1,439 students
- 8Wc Abney Elementary1,270 students
- Enrollment+189.5%
- Teachers+126.1%
- Students per teacher+28.7%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−47.5%
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