Cedar Ridge Elementary School

Located at 1000 Trudeau Trl, in Grovetown, Georgia, Cedar Ridge Elementary School is a sizable elementary campus that instructs 1,060 students (grades pre-K through 5), run under Columbia County. That puts it 75% bigger than the typical public school in Georgia, which averages around 605 students.

Columbia County runs 31 schools in total, collectively educating 28,964 students. Cedar Ridge Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Cedar Ridge Elementary School records that the largest single group is White at 35%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder comes out to 33% Black, 19% Hispanic, 11% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 66%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 69 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.3:1, putting Cedar Ridge Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. About 50% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Columbia County runs at roughly 39%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Cedar Ridge Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 51.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 55.2%.

In the area at large, Columbia County reports that median household earnings sit near $95,592, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Cedar Ridge Elementary School is one of 32 public schools in Columbia County (combined enrollment of about 29,518 students).

Grovetown Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Cedar Ridge Elementary School at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 53.4%.

Cedar Ridge Elementary School operates from a bedroom-community location.

Five-year trend. Cedar Ridge Elementary School's enrollment has declined 12% since 2018, when it stood at 1,208 (now 1,060). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 15.5:1 today.

On the community side, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.