Public school / Primary
T. J. Perkerson Elementary School
Atlanta, Georgia
- NCES ID
- 130012000122
- District
- Atlanta Public Schools
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
T. J. Perkerson Elementary School is a public primary school in Atlanta, Georgia, run by Atlanta Public Schools. It enrols 354 students — the 57864th 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
354
Teachers
36.0
Students per teacher
9.8
Free or reduced-price lunch
100.0%
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 Atlanta 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.
- 1North Atlanta High School2,316 students
- 2Midtown High School1,602 students
- 3Willis A. Sutton Middle School1,548 students
- 4Maynard Jackson High School1,474 students
- 5Benjamin E. Mays High School1,337 students
- 6David T Howard Middle School1,119 students
- 7Frederick Douglass High School1,112 students
- 8D. M. Therrell High School973 students
- Enrollment−46.4%
- Teachers−21.7%
- Students per teacher−31.5%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+45.9%
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