Charles Spencer Elementary School

Charles Spencer Elementary School is one of the tight-knit K-5 schools in Tifton, Georgia, overseen by Tift County, with 428 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 605 students per school, that is 29% below typical.

Tift County runs 11 schools in total, collectively educating 7,471 students. Charles Spencer Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Charles Spencer Elementary School logs that the most-represented group is Black (42%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder is composed of 33% White, 18% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Tift County as a whole is about 30% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Charles Spencer Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 25.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 22.6%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Tift County) reports that median household earnings sit near $53,255, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 16%. In all, Tift County runs 11 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,471 students), of which Charles Spencer Elementary School is one.

J. T. Reddick Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Charles Spencer Elementary School ranks 9th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 37.4%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Over the past 7-year window. Charles Spencer Elementary School's enrollment has contracted 26% since 2018, when it stood at 581 (now 428). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 today.

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