Alice Coachman Elementary School

Alice Coachman Elementary School is a primary school of low-enrollment scale in Albany, Georgia, operated by Dougherty County, caters to 448 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 26% smaller than the state mean of about 605.

Across the 22 schools in Dougherty County (13,241 students total), Alice Coachman Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Alice Coachman Elementary School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (94%). Beyond that, the school lists 2% White, 2% Hispanic. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 71%.

Looking at school resources, Alice Coachman Elementary School records 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.3:1 average. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Alice Coachman Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.7%, the actual is 15.3%, a residual of -10.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, Dougherty County reports that median household earnings sit near $49,044, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 19%. In all, Dougherty County runs 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,241 students), of which Alice Coachman Elementary School is one.

West Town Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Alice Coachman Elementary School at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 31.6%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Alice Coachman Elementary School's enrollment has fell 10% since 2018, when it stood at 499 (now 448).

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