The top reported proficiency rate is 71% in Social studies. The lowest is 12% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Huie Elementary School
Huie Elementary School serves Forest Park, a working-class city in Clayton County just south of Atlanta. The school sits on the southern edge of the district and enrolls children from pre-K through fifth grade in a mixed neighborhood that has seen both industrial growth—the Gillem Logistics Center with its Kroger distribution operations sits nearby—and steady small-scale residential redevelopment along the downtown Main Street corridor.
The school's current academic profile is weak. In the most recent state testing window, proficiency in English language arts, math, and science were all substantially below grade level across grades three through five. In third-grade math, about a quarter of students tested proficient. In fourth-grade math, proficiency dropped below one in five. By fifth grade, math proficiency fell below one in ten, and science proficiency in the same grade sat below one in six. Reading and writing performance in grades four and five, while marginally higher than math, remained in the same range. These results place Huie above the midpoint for proficiency across the five districts in Clayton County, but that relative position reflects system-wide academic challenges rather than strength. One year of data means no trend is visible yet.
The school serves a student body that is substantially low-income. All students enrolled qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The racial and ethnic composition is roughly evenly split between Black and Hispanic students, with smaller numbers of multiracial, American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian, and White students. The enrollment is stable at roughly six hundred students, with healthy representation across pre-K and K-5, suggesting the area's population is holding.
Forest Park itself is in transition. The city's overall population has been essentially flat or declining slightly since 2020, but the downtown is in active redevelopment. Main Street has received Georgia Main Street Program status, streetscape improvements are underway with new brick sidewalks and landscaping, a pedestrian bridge connecting City Hall and Starr Park is planned, and the city is opening new townhomes and mixed-use space downtown. The median home value in the zip code is considerably below the state average, and rental costs are similarly modest, making this an economically accessible area for families priced out of closer-in Atlanta neighborhoods. Major employers remain concentrated in logistics and distribution tied to the airport and interstate network.
Clayton County Public Schools is pursuing significant change. Voters approved a substantial education bond that is funding renovations or rebuilds of about two-thirds of the district's schools, including a full rebuild of North Clayton High School. The district has also adopted a Science-of-Reading literacy framework districtwide, with the Amira reading screener and tutoring tool now in use across all K-5 classrooms. A new convocation center and college and career academy, opening in a nearby Morrow location, will expand career-pathway access for high schoolers. These are system-level investments aimed at raising achievement and expanding options, though their effects on individual elementary schools play out over time.
Huie is located in a neighborhood and within a district where real academic support and turnaround work matters. Parents choosing this school should understand that current proficiency levels are low, that the building is part of a much larger district initiative to improve literacy from the ground up, and that the larger redevelopment of Forest Park—downtown, housing, and economic diversification—is still in progress. The school's peer composition is economically and ethnically diverse, reflecting Forest Park's character as a working-class, majority-minority community where affordability remains a draw for families.
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