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Fulton County Schools report 87,054 students for 2024–25, project modest decline over five years
Summary
District officials told the school board the district enrolled 87,054 students for 2024–25, a decline of 818 from the prior year, and presented a five‑year forecast that projects continued but slowing declines tied to larger graduating classes, smaller kindergarten cohorts and regional housing trends.
Fulton County Schools’ executive director of operational planning, Tarika Peaks, told the school board on March 11 that the district enrolled 87,054 students for the 2024–25 school year, a decline of 818 students from the previous year.
Peaks said the most significant driver of the decline is cohort dynamics: this year the district counted about 7,000 12th‑graders and roughly 5,000 kindergartners, so larger exiting classes exceed smaller incoming kindergarten cohorts. The district’s three planning regions and the Fulton Academy of Virtual Excellence (FAVE) all showed regional variation: South Region enrollment was roughly 32,348 (up 4 students), Sandy Springs declined by 207 to about 8,700 students, and the North Region fell by about 538 to nearly 46,000 students. FAVE declined by 77 to 387 students.
The projections rely on a modified cohort model that progresses students forward grade‑to‑grade and applies three sets of factors: birth factors to estimate incoming…
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