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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at Blue Ridge Elementary School this year?
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Enrollment
612
Elementary
DISTRICT 721 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·COLUMBIA COUNTY·NCES 130141001997
Blue Ridge Elementary School
550 Blue Ridge Dr, Evans, GA 30809 · (706) 868-0894 · Columbia County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL612 STUDENTS
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Scored higher than 93% of Georgia public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- B-Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Georgia public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.1:1
47 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.4:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
49%
297 students
DISTRICT 40% · STATE 74%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 3 | 0% |
| Kindergarten | 79 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 115 | 19% |
| Grade 2 | 95 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 125 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 99 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 96 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (79) is 18% smaller than its 5th grade class (96).
Student demographics
68%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 66% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedEnglish Language Arts
55.5%
GA avg 40.1% . +1.2pp since 2021
Math
68.6%
GA avg 44.6% . +3.4pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 56 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 69 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Georgia schools, those numbers are about 40 and 45. Reading and writing scores are up about 1 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 3 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 55.5% | 68.6% |
| 2023-24 | 62.7% | 70.8% |
| 2022-23 | 57.2% | 64.6% |
| 2021-22 | 54.3% | 65.2% |
% Proficient or Distinguished, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Georgia Milestones. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
66.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
52.3%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+13.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 66% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 52% typical for Georgia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Georgia's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Blue Ridge Elementary School
Blue Ridge Elementary School's state test result (66.1% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Ridge Elementary School this school | 612 | 48.5% | 66.1% |
| Dr. George Washington Carver Elementary School Richmond Hill | 658 | 48.0% | 61.1% |
| Richmond Hill Elementary School Richmond Hill | 662 | 42.4% | 50.7% |
| Richmond Hill Primary School Richmond Hill | 733 | 43.9% | N/A |
| Matilda Harris Elementary School Kingsland | 662 | 46.4% | 62.0% |
| Chalker Elementary School Kennesaw | 679 | 47.6% | 42.5% |
Matched among Georgia elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Blue Ridge Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Columbia County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 66.1% | #134 of 1,208 | #9 of 17 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 68.6% | #146 of 1,215 ▼ 21 | #10 of 17 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 55.5% | #194 of 1,215 ▼ 47 | #10 of 17 ▼ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +2.3pp | #584 of 1,183 | #10 of 16 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 612 | #568 of 1,324 | #14 of 19 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.1:1 | #561 of 1,301 | #4 of 19 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 67.9% | #190 of 1,301 | #6 of 19 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 48.5% | #1,050 of 1,312 | #8 of 18 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +4.4% | #286 of 386 | #10 of 11 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
612
+33 (+6%) vs 2020
-43% since 1990-91, when it was 1,072
Student : Teacher
13.1:1
was 13.5:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 612 | 46.7 | 13.1:1 | 49% (297) |
| 2023-24 | 597 | 49.5 | 12.1:1 | 56% (333) |
| 2022-23 | 603 | 47.1 | 12.8:1 | 39% (238) |
| 2020-21 | 579 | 43 | 13.5:1 | 28% (161) |
| 2017-18 | 586 | 40 | 14.7:1 | 36% (211) |
| 2015-16 | 638 | 42 | 15.2:1 | 33% (210) |
| 2010-11 | 625 | 40 | 15.6:1 | 28% (178) |
| 2000-01 | 793 | 43 | 18.4:1 | 12% (97) |
| 1990-91 | 1,072 | 51 | 21.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Blue Ridge Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 4% (586 to 612); teachers up 17% (40 to 46.7).
About Blue Ridge Elementary School
Blue Ridge Elementary School is one of the public schools in Evans, Georgia. It is a medium-sized elementary school. Grades offered run from pre-K through 5, with 612 students enrolled.
Within Columbia County, Blue Ridge Elementary School is one of 31 schools. The district enrolls 28,964 students.
At 50%, White students outnumber all other groups at Blue Ridge Elementary School combined. It is also 19% Black, 14% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, and 8% Asian. Columbia County's residents are about 66% White, 15 points above the school's share. By the diversity index, Blue Ridge Elementary School comes in at 68%.
The count of teachers at Blue Ridge Elementary School is 46.7 full-time equivalents, for a ratio of 13.1:1. Elementary schools in Georgia average about 13.3:1, a similar figure. The school counts 297 students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, or 49%. That rate is above the 39% average among public schools in Columbia County.
Measured against Georgia public elementary schools, Blue Ridge Elementary School receives an A. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Test results at Blue Ridge Elementary School are 13.8 points above what its free or reduced-price lunch share predicts (66.1% actual, 52.3% predicted).
Blue Ridge Elementary School is located in Columbia County, where median household income is about $95,592, about 39% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. Blue Ridge Elementary School is one of 32 public schools in Columbia County, which together enroll about 29,518 students.
Lakeside Middle School is the public school closest to Blue Ridge Elementary School, about 0.3 miles away. Blue Ridge Elementary School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Blue Ridge Elementary School's average proficiency of 66.1% compares with 62.8% for its nearest scored neighbors.
The school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (Suburb: Large).
The student count in 2024-25 was 612, 6% above the 579 of 2020-21.
Posts about school safety, transportation, and start times are welcome on this page. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
Columbia County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
162,434
Census ACS
Median income
$95,592
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
32
29,518 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Columbia County
- Grovetown High SchoolHigh · 2,256 students
- Greenbrier High SchoolHigh · 1,935 students
- Lakeside High SchoolHigh · 1,861 students
- Evans High SchoolHigh · 1,800 students
- Harlem High SchoolHigh · 1,318 students
- Grovetown Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,067 students
Other schools in Evans
- Greenbrier High SchoolHigh · 1,935 students
- Lakeside High SchoolHigh · 1,861 students
- Evans High SchoolHigh · 1,800 students
- Evans Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,030 students
- Greenbrier Middle SchoolMiddle · 853 students
- Parkway Elementary SchoolElementary · 795 students
Other Blue Ridge Elementary schools
13 other US public schools in 10 states are named Blue Ridge Elementary. Blue Ridge Elementary School is the 3rd largest of the 14.
- Blue Ridge Elementary SchoolDalton, GA · 632 students
- Blue Ridge Elementary SchoolBlue Ridge, GA · 383 students
- Blue Ridge Elementary SchoolLakeside, AZ · 801 students
- Blue Ridge ElementarySeneca, SC · 579 students
- Blue Ridge Elementary SchoolBLUE RIDGE, TX · 510 students
Nearby schools
- Lakeside Middle School0.3 mi · 498
- Lakeside High School0.3 mi · 1,861
- South Columbia Elementary School1.0 mi · 398
- Stevens Creek Elementary School1.7 mi · 759
- Stallings Island Middle School2.1 mi · 729
- Martinez Elementary School2.2 mi · 731
Frequently asked questions
About Blue Ridge Elementary SchoolHow large is Blue Ridge Elementary School?
Blue Ridge Elementary School enrolls approximately 612 students in grades PK-05.
Is Blue Ridge Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Blue Ridge Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at Blue Ridge Elementary School?
Approximately 13.1:1 students per teacher at Blue Ridge Elementary School.
What is the student diversity at Blue Ridge Elementary School?
Student demographics at Blue Ridge Elementary School are roughly 50% White, 14% Hispanic, 19% Black, 8% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Is Blue Ridge Elementary School public or private?
Blue Ridge Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Columbia County.
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