Bloomingdale Elementary School

Located at 1700 Highgate Blvd, in Savannah, Georgia, Bloomingdale Elementary School is a tight-knit elementary campus that serves 350 students (grades pre-K through 5), part of Savannah-Chatham County. By comparison, Georgia's public schools average about 605 students each, so Bloomingdale Elementary School sits 42% below that benchmark.

Across the 58 schools in Savannah-Chatham County (36,355 students total), Bloomingdale Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Bloomingdale Elementary School logs that the most-represented group is White (45%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 25% Hispanic, 23% Black, 6% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, The school lists 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.3:1, putting Bloomingdale Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 76% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Bloomingdale Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 38.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 37.3%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Chatham County) reports that median household earnings sit near $71,097, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Bloomingdale Elementary School is one of 60 public schools in Chatham County (combined enrollment of about 36,380 students).

The closest other public school is Pooler Elementary School, roughly 2.9 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Bloomingdale Elementary School comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 37.3%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Five-year trend. Bloomingdale Elementary School's enrollment has changed only slightly since 2018, when it stood at 356 (now 350). Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 71% to 45%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 12.4:1 in 2018 to 11.3:1 today.

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