Barrow Elementary School

Barrow Elementary School is an intimate elementary campus in Athens, Georgia, one of the schools within Clarke County. The school educates 456 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Georgia's public schools average about 605 students each, so Barrow Elementary School sits 25% leaner than that benchmark.

Clarke County runs 21 schools in total, collectively educating 12,275 students. Barrow Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Barrow Elementary School records that the most-represented group is Black (39%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 39% White, 8% Hispanic, 8% Asian, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 26% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Barrow Elementary School shows 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.3:1 average. An estimated 77% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably below Clarke County's rate of about 91%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Barrow Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 37.4%; this one delivers 45.0%.

In the broader community, census data for Clarke County shows the typical household earns roughly $53,625 per year, about 47% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. Across Clarke County's 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,750 students), Barrow Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Clarke Central High School, roughly 0.8 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Barrow Elementary School comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 24.5%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Over the past 7-year window. Barrow Elementary School's enrollment has decreased 21% since 2018, when it stood at 576 (now 456). The White share of enrollment ticked down from 44% to 39% over that span.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. The community welcomes input from current and former families.