Brewer Elementary School

Located at 2951 Martin Luther King, in Columbus, Georgia, Brewer Elementary School is a low-enrollment elementary-level community that serves 367 students (grades pre-K through 2), one of the schools within Muscogee County. That puts it 39% below the typical public school in Georgia, which averages around 605 students.

Within Muscogee County, which oversees 54 schools and 30,091 students, Brewer Elementary School is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Brewer Elementary School lists that Black students make up the majority at 63%; the rest comes out to 28% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% White. By comparison, Muscogee County as a whole is about 47% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.3:1, putting Brewer Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Muscogee County's rate of about 86%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Brewer Elementary School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 25.7%; actual is 5.6%, a gap of -20.0 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Muscogee County put median household earnings sit near $58,073, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. Across Muscogee County's 57 public schools (combined enrollment of about 30,110 students), Brewer Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Carver High School, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Brewer Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Brewer Elementary School at 9th of 9; the average score across the group is 21.6%.

Brewer Elementary School operates from a downtown location.

Five-year trend. Brewer Elementary School's enrollment has declined 23% since 2018, when it stood at 476 (now 367). Over the same period, the Black share contracted from 80% to 63%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 10.2:1 in 2025.

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