Georgia school districts by enrollment
Of Georgia's 236 school districts, 53 have a complete enrollment roll in the 2023-24 release — every one of their schools published a figure. Ranked by that roll, the largest is Gwinnett County with 182,214 students and the smallest is Clay County with 205.
The figures, 2023-24
A district's enrollment here is the sum of its own schools' published figures, so it can be checked against the school pages. A district with even one withheld school figure has no roll and is excluded from the ranking rather than ranked on a partial sum.
| State | Georgia |
|---|---|
| School districts | 236 |
| Districts with a complete roll | 53 |
| Largest district enrollment | 182214 |
| Smallest district enrollment | 205 |
| Median district enrollment | 10740 |
| Share of districts with a complete rollcalculated | 22.5%districts_with_complete_roll / number_of_districts |
All districts, largest enrollment first
- Gwinnett County
- Cobb County
- DeKalb County
- Fulton County
- Forsyth County
- Atlanta Public Schools
- Henry County
- Cherokee County
- Paulding County
- Houston County
- Muscogee County
- Columbia County
- Hall County
- Douglas County
- Coweta County
- Fayette County
- Newton County
- Carroll County
- Rockdale County
- Barrow County
- Walton County
- Effingham County
- Glynn County
- Troup County
- Whitfield County
Other statewide answers
- How many public schools are in Georgia?
- How many school districts are there in Georgia?
- How many students are in Georgia public schools?
- How many teachers are in Georgia public schools?
- Charter schools in Georgia
- Free and reduced-price lunch in Georgia schools
Questions
Which Georgia school district is the largest?
Gwinnett County, with 182,214 students summed over its own schools in the 2023-24 release.
Why might a district be missing from the ranking?
183 districts have at least one school whose enrollment NCES withheld. A partial sum would rank them too low, so they are left out and counted above instead.
How is a district's enrollment calculated?
As the sum of the published enrollment of every school naming that district in the federal directory. It is not a separately published district figure, which means it can be reproduced from the school pages on this site.
Method and sources
Every figure on this page is a census over the 2023-24 Common Core of Data, published by the U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. The ranking deliberately omits any district with an incomplete roll rather than ranking it on the schools that did publish. The count of omitted districts is on the page so the ranking states its own coverage. No figure here is imputed, and where a count excludes records the number excluded is on the page.
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