Kindezi at Gideons Elementary School, Atlanta: report card

Last checked Oct. 6, 2026. Sources: the Kindezi at Gideons website, APS’s partner school directory and feeder pattern list, 2026-27 student calendar (PDF), the Governor’s Office of Student Achievement’s 2025 School Grades data and the federal NCES school directory.

Kindezi at Gideons Elementary School is an Atlanta Public Schools elementary school in the district’s Carver cluster. It teaches prekindergarten through fifth grade at 897 Welch St. SW. APS lists it as a partner school: a neighborhood school, with its own attendance zone, whose management the district has handed to Kindezi Schools. The state’s data list it as Charles L. Gideons Elementary School.

• Address: 897 Welch St. SW, Atlanta, GA 30310
• Phone: 404-802-7700
• Grades: Pre-K to 5
• Website: gideons.atlantapublicschools.us

Who to call

• Kindezi at Gideons front office: 404-802-7700
• Register a new student: the district’s online New Student Enrollment application, then call the school with your application number
• Bus routes: the APS Transportation Call Center, 404-802-5500
• Atlanta Public Schools main line: 404-802-3500
• Is this your school? Check an address with the APS School Zone Locator

Principal

Robert Owens is principal, according to the school’s website.

Enrollment and teachers

The state counted 332 students at Kindezi at Gideons in its 2025 School Grades data. The most recent federal figure, from the NCES directory for the 2023-24 school year, is 295 students and 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, about 9.2 students per teacher.

State report card

Kindezi at Gideons’s 2025 CCRPI single score was 63.8, according to the state’s School Grades data. The Georgia average for elementary schools was 78.6 and Atlanta Public Schools’ was 80.3. The school’s single score was 56.1 in 2023, 63.7 in 2024 and 63.8 in 2025. The full report card, with subgroups and the parts of the score, is on the state’s Kindezi at Gideons report card.

CCRPI is the Georgia Department of Education’s “comprehensive school improvement, accountability, and communication platform,” according to GaDOE. The single score runs from 0 to 100 and is built from content mastery, progress, closing gaps and readiness, plus graduation rate for high schools. Georgia does not publish an A-to-F letter grade for schools in its 2025 data.

Georgia Milestones, 2025, share of tested students at each of the two top levels:

The same data show 26.8% of fifth graders read at or above grade level, against 55.1% statewide.

Attendance zone

Zones are drawn by Atlanta Public Schools, so a neighborhood name or mailing address does not settle which school a home is zoned for. Check the address with the APS School Zone Locator; the district’s zone map for Kindezi at Gideons shows the school’s boundary.

Kindezi at Gideons is in the Carver cluster, according to the district’s feeder pattern list. The cluster’s middle schools are Price Middle and Sylvan Hills Middle, and it ends at the Carver campus on McDonough Boulevard, home of Carver Early College and STEAM Academy at Carver. Check the zone locator for the middle school an address is zoned for.

We found no board-approved rezoning that changes Kindezi at Gideons’s zone. In December 2025 the Atlanta Board of Education approved Phase 1 of APS Forward 2040, the district’s long-range facilities plan, which closes six schools in fall 2027, according to the district. The zone changes that follow, which the board is scheduled to vote on Monday, Dec. 7, are centered on the closing elementary schools; draft maps are on the district’s APS Forward 2040 page.

Calendar

From the district’s 2026-27 student calendar (PDF) (all district dates are on the calendar page):

• Monday, Oct. 12, and Tuesday, Oct. 13: Indigenous Peoples’ Day and teacher professional learning days, no school for students
• Wednesday, Oct. 14, to Friday, Oct. 16: fall break
• Tuesday, Nov. 3: Election Day, a teacher professional learning day; no school for students
• Monday, Nov. 23, to Friday, Nov. 27: Thanksgiving break
• Monday, Dec. 21, to Friday, Jan. 1: December break; the second semester begins Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2027
• Monday, Feb. 15, to Friday, Feb. 19, 2027: Presidents Day, then winter break
• Monday, April 5, to Friday, April 9, 2027: spring break
• Thursday, May 27, 2027: last day of school

More

• The school’s website
• The state’s report card for Kindezi at Gideons
• The district’s zone map for Kindezi at Gideons and School Zone Locator
• APS’s schools and feeder patterns and About Our Schools pages
• APS’s partner school directory
• Every public school in Atlanta, with zones and scores: our Atlanta public schools guide
• District calendar, enrollment and the Board of Education: our Atlanta schools guide

Frequently asked questions

What grades does Kindezi at Gideons serve?

Prekindergarten through fifth grade, according to the state’s 2025 School Grades data.

What is Kindezi at Gideons’s CCRPI score?

63.8 in 2025, according to the state’s School Grades data, against a Georgia elementary school average of 78.6. It was 63.7 in 2024.

Which schools does Kindezi at Gideons feed into?

Price or Sylvan Hills middle school, then the Carver campus (Carver Early College or STEAM Academy at Carver), according to the district’s feeder list.