How many students are in Georgia public schools?
Georgia public schools enrolled 1,715,551 students in 2023-24, over 225 of its 236 districts, as the federal state record has it. Summing the 1,398 individual schools this site covers gives 1,189,133. 3 schools carry no published enrollment and are excluded from the total rather than counted as zero.
The figures, 2023-24
The total is a sum, not a separately published state figure, and the denominator is stated beside it so a reader can see what it covers. The median is the more useful number for a single school: the mean is pulled upward by a small number of very large schools.
| State | Georgia |
|---|---|
| Students enrolled, statewide | 1715551 |
| Summed over the schools covered here | 1189133 |
| Schools in that sum | 1398 |
| Schools in the state | 2327 |
| Median school enrollment | 714 |
| Largest single school | 3880 |
| Average school enrollmentcalculated | 851enrollment_covered / schools_with_published_enrollment |
| Share of the state's schools in that sumcalculated | 60.1%schools_with_published_enrollment / number_of_schools |
The twelve largest districts by enrollment
- 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
Other statewide answers
- How many public schools are in Georgia?
- How many school districts are there in Georgia?
- How many teachers are in Georgia public schools?
- Charter schools in Georgia
- Georgia school districts by enrollment
- Free and reduced-price lunch in Georgia schools
Questions
How many students are in Georgia public schools?
1,715,551 in 2023-24, as the federal state record has it, over 225 of Georgia's 236 districts. Summing the individual schools this site covers gives 1,189,133.
Why is the total a sum rather than a state figure?
Because it can then be checked. Every school page on this site carries the figure that went into it, and the number of schools the sum covers is stated above, so the total is reproducible from the same public records.
What is a typical school size?
The median Georgia public school enrolls 714 students. The average is 851, higher than the median because a few very large schools pull it up.
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. NCES withholds an enrollment figure where publishing it could identify individual students. A withheld figure is not a zero, so the school is excluded from the total and the number of schools the total covers is published beside it. No figure here is imputed, and where a count excludes records the number excluded is on the page.
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