Huddleston Elementary School, Peachtree City GA

Original Research by School Decision on Huddleston Elementary School

Huddleston Elementary School serves grades pre-K through 5 in Peachtree City, a planned suburban community about 22 miles south of Atlanta. The school enrolls around 600 students in a mix of residential villages connected by an extensive golf-cart path network, a defining feature of daily life in the area. The student body reflects the broader Peachtree City population: a clear majority white, with meaningful shares of Hispanic, Asian, and multiracial students. About a third of the enrollment qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch, marking a school serving a broader economic band than the affluent image sometimes attached to the suburb.

On state assessments for 2024-25, Huddleston's performance sits in the middle range. Math proficiency across tested grades hovers around two-thirds; English language arts proficiency runs lower, with fourth-grade ELA showing the softest result. Science proficiency in fifth grade aligns with math. The school's overall proficiency index places it at the top of the three-district comparison set within Fayette County, though readers should know that county-level comparison reflects a small universe. State assessment trend data for this school covers only one year, so tracking year-to-year movement is not yet possible.

Peachtree City itself is a distinctive setting. The community centers not on a downtown but on five dispersed village centers, each with shops and recreation tied into the cart-path system. Major employers cluster in an industrial park and include automotive suppliers, advanced manufacturers, and corporate operations. Housing costs are mid-range for metro Atlanta: homes in the area command solid prices, and rental rates run moderate. Property taxes benefit from a voter-approved homestead exemption that caps growth in assessed value for owner-occupied homes, a permanent tax shield that becomes more valuable the longer a family stays.

The Fayette County district serving this school faces a structural budget squeeze. Voters approved a homestead exemption that limits the growth of school property tax revenue, and the board responded with a millage increase that still leaves the district leaner than before, including cuts of over 70 full-time positions in 2024. On the positive side, the district operates under a continuing voter-approved education sales tax (ESPLOST IV) that funds facility improvements, technology, and buses without adding property tax burden. Families moving into the area benefit from recent capital additions and ongoing infrastructure investment, even as operational staffing has contracted.

Huddleston is a regular public elementary school in a stable, economically mixed residential community with distinctive local character and a cost structure that favors long-term homeownership. The school's academic results show baseline proficiency across core subjects with room for growth in language arts; the district context suggests tighter resources ahead and a reliance on voter-backed sales tax for facilities rather than ongoing operational expansion.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 366%

School 66% · District 66%

▲ 26 pts above state median · even with county median

Grade 468%

School 68% · District 71% · ▼ 3 pts below district

▲ 23 pts above state median · even with county median

Grade 569%

School 69% · District 66% · ▲ 3 pts above district

▲ 31 pts above state median · ▲ 2 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 361%

School 61% · District 58% · ▲ 3 pts above district

▲ 31 pts above state median · ▲ 7 pts above county median

Grade 455%

School 55% · District 62% · ▼ 7 pts below district

▲ 21 pts above state median · ▼ 6 pts below county median

Grade 566%

School 66% · District 64% · ▲ 2 pts above district

▲ 28 pts above state median · ▲ 2 pts above county median

Science

Grade 566%

School 66% · District 67% · ▼ 1 pts below district

▲ 27 pts above state median · even with county median

Social studies

Grades 3-890%

School 90% · district not reported

▲ 6 pts above state median · ▼ 3 pts below county median

This schoolFayette County, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 3Lower-income28%Higher-income68%41 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income53%Higher-income68%15 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income50%Higher-income66%16 pp gap

Grades 3-8Lower-income44%Higher-income67%24 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income31%Higher-income67%36 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income56%Higher-income79%22 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income45%Higher-income78%33 pp gap

Grades 3-8Lower-income44%Higher-income74%31 pp gap