Carter Elementary School

Carter Elementary School operates as a reasonably sized K-5 school in Macon, Georgia, one of the schools within Bibb County. Current enrollment sits at 520 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

Carter Elementary School is one of 35 schools operated by Bibb County, a district that caters to 21,334 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Carter Elementary School records that the largest single group is Black, at 67% of enrollment. The remainder reads as 11% White, 8% Asian, 7% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 58% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Carter Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 47.5%; this one delivers 43.5%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Bibb County) logs that median household income runs about $51,234, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 20% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Bibb County runs 41 public schools (combined enrollment of about 23,725 students), of which Carter Elementary School is one.

Howard High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Carter Elementary School comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 23.9%.

Carter Elementary School operates from an urban location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 11%: 468 students in 2018 compared to 520 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 25% to 11% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 13.4:1 in 2018 to 14.7:1 today.

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