Blakeney Elementary

Blakeney Elementary operates as a mid-tier primary school in Waynesboro, Georgia, operated by Burke County. Current enrollment sits at 726 students spanning grades 3 through 5.

Burke County comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 3,841 students; Blakeney Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, Blakeney Elementary records that 64% of the student body identifies as Black. Other groups include 25% White, 6% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 45%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 61 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. 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, Blakeney Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 25.7%; this one delivers 25.5%.

In the surrounding community, Burke County reports that median household earnings sit near $53,014, roughly 16% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 19% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Burke County's 5 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,841 students), Blakeney Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Waynesboro Primary School, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Blakeney Elementary. On composite proficiency, Blakeney Elementary comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 23.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-center area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Blakeney Elementary has declined 7%, going from 779 students in 2018 to 726 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 in 2025.

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