Blue Ridge Elementary School

Located at 100 S Bogle St, in Dalton, Georgia, Blue Ridge Elementary School is a moderately sized elementary campus that educates 632 students (grades pre-K through 5), overseen by Dalton Public Schools.

Across the 10 schools in Dalton Public Schools (7,619 students total), Blue Ridge Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Blue Ridge Elementary School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (93%); the rest breaks down as 4% White. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 37%.

On the income-and-resources front, Blue Ridge Elementary School logs 58 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.3:1, putting Blue Ridge Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 85% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, Blue Ridge Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.3%, the actual is 22.0%, a residual of -11.3 points.

In the broader community, Whitfield County reports that the typical household earns roughly $67,070 per year, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Whitfield County runs 33 public schools (combined enrollment of about 19,570 students), of which Blue Ridge Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Roan Elementary School, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Blue Ridge Elementary School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Blue Ridge Elementary School ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 35.9%.

Blue Ridge Elementary School operates from a metropolitan location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Blue Ridge Elementary School has contracted 3%, going from 654 students in 2018 to 632 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 89% to 93% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 10.9:1 today.

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