Beach High School

Set in Savannah, Georgia, Beach High School is a moderately sized high school, one of the schools within Savannah-Chatham County. It instructs 973 students across grades 9 through 12.

Within Savannah-Chatham County, which oversees 58 schools and 36,355 students, Beach High School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Beach High School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (80%). Beyond that, the school logs 11% Hispanic, 4% White, 3% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 39%.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 65 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 85% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Chatham County's rate of about 74%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Beach High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 33.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 31.6%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Chatham County shows the typical household earns roughly $71,097 per year, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Chatham County runs 60 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,380 students), of which Beach High School is one.

The closest other public school is Savannah-Chatham E-Learning Academy, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Beach High School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 26.6%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Beach High School has showed little movement, going from 993 students in 2018 to 973 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 4% to 11% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.0:1 in 2018 to 14.9:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, the feed for Beach High School typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.