Every Georgia public school and district, from the federal record

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.

StateGeorgia
School districts236
Districts with a complete roll53
Largest district enrollment182214
Smallest district enrollment205
Median district enrollment10740
Share of districts with a complete rollcalculated22.5%districts_with_complete_roll / number_of_districts

All districts, largest enrollment first

Other statewide answers

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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