Barton Chapel Elementary School

Barton Chapel Elementary School is an elementary campus of modestly sized scale in Augusta, Georgia, run under Richmond County, works with 427 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Georgia's public schools average about 605 students each, so Barton Chapel Elementary School sits 29% smaller than that benchmark.

Across the 52 schools in Richmond County (30,573 students total), Barton Chapel Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Barton Chapel Elementary School records that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (87%). Other groups include 9% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 56%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Barton Chapel Elementary School has 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.3:1, putting Barton Chapel Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 100% of students at Barton Chapel Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, Barton Chapel Elementary School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 25.7%; this one comes in at 6.9%, -18.8 points off the demographic line.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Richmond County indicate median household income runs about $55,637, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 17%. In all, Richmond County runs 58 public schools (combined enrollment of about 31,674 students), of which Barton Chapel Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Glenn Hills Middle School, around 1.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Barton Chapel Elementary School comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 11.7%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Barton Chapel Elementary School has ticked down 15%, going from 500 students in 2018 to 427 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 in 2025.

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