Public Schools in Georgia
2,315 schools · 227 districts · 1,750,972 students
Largest Schools in Georgia
School data sourced from NCES (National Center for Education Statistics) via the Common Core of Data.
Georgia Cyber Academy
Atlanta
Georgia Connections Academy
Duluth
Brookwood High School
Snellville
Peachtree Ridge High School
Suwanee
Grayson High School
Loganville
Parkview High School
Lilburn
East Coweta High School
Sharpsburg
Lowndes High School
Valdosta
Archer High School
Lawrenceville
North Gwinnett High School
Suwanee
Frequently Asked Questions
Georgia has 2,315 public schools across 227 districts, serving 1,750,972 students.
The largest school in Georgia is Georgia Cyber Academy with 8,876 students. Georgia has 2,315 public schools overall.
The average proficiency rate is 44%. Proficiency rates measure the percentage of students meeting state standards on standardized assessments, as reported by EDFacts.
All school data comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data for enrollment and school characteristics, and EDFacts for proficiency rates and graduation rates.
School data is sourced from NCES enrollment records and EDFacts proficiency and graduation rate assessments. No synthetic scores are used.
this entity is one of the data points covered by this site’s U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment dataset. The detail above comes directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts; the context that follows situates the headline numbers against the broader distribution across U.S. public schools and districts.
The methodology behind every numeric value on this page is publicly documented on the NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts portal and described in detail on this site’s methodology page. Refresh cadence varies by underlying series; the page surfaces the as-of date for each number so readers can trace any figure back to the source release.
Practical use of this page is in combination with the comparison and ranking pages elsewhere on the site, which surface the same data for this entity’s peers within U.S. public schools and districts. A single-entity reading without peer context can be misleading when an entity is an outlier on one axis but typical on another.