Banks County Elementary School

Banks County Elementary School operates as a mid-sized elementary campus in Homer, Georgia, part of Banks County. Current enrollment sits at 651 students spanning grades 3 through 5.

Across the 4 schools in Banks County (2,798 students total), Banks County Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Banks County Elementary School reports that 76% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder consists of 14% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 86%.

Looking at school resources, Banks County Elementary School lists 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 87% of students at Banks County Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Banks County Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.4%, the actual is 32.9%, a residual of +0.5 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Banks County shows the typical household earns roughly $77,063 per year, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Banks County's 5 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,220 students), Banks County Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Banks County Primary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Banks County Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Banks County Elementary School comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 44.6%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Banks County Elementary School has ticked up 3%, going from 632 students in 2018 to 651 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 84% to 76% over that span.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.