Calhoun Elementary School

Set in Calhoun, Georgia, Calhoun Elementary School is a mid-sized 6-8 campus, run under Calhoun City. It teaches 922 students across grades 4 through 6. By comparison, Georgia's public schools average about 763 students each, so Calhoun Elementary School sits 21% above that benchmark.

Within Calhoun City, which oversees 5 schools and 4,193 students, Calhoun Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Calhoun Elementary School logs that the most-represented group is White (43%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 39% Hispanic, 8% Black, 7% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Gordon County as a whole is about 78% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Calhoun Elementary School records 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.8:1. The state averages around 14.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 88% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Calhoun Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.0%, the actual is 38.3%, a residual of +6.3 points.

In the area at large, Gordon County reports that median household income runs about $63,650, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Calhoun Elementary School is one of 15 public schools in Gordon County (combined enrollment of about 10,452 students).

Nearest neighbor: Calhoun Primary School, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around Calhoun Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Calhoun Elementary School comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 40.8%.

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

Over the past 7-year window. Calhoun Elementary School's enrollment has decreased 4% since 2018, when it stood at 958 (now 922). White enrollment moved from 50% to 43% across the same window.

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