Connie Dugan Elementary School

As a medium-sized K-5 school in Douglasville, Georgia, Connie Dugan Elementary School caters to 647 students from grades pre-K through 5, part of Paulding County.

Connie Dugan Elementary School is one of 34 schools operated by Paulding County, a district that educates 31,426 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Connie Dugan Elementary School lists that the largest single group is White at 40%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest comes out to 38% Black, 15% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 63%.

In terms of school funding signals, Connie Dugan Elementary School shows 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.7:1. The state averages about 13.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 64% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Paulding County runs at roughly 51%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Connie Dugan Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 44.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 34.7%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Paulding County put median household earnings sit near $98,031, about 30% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Paulding County's 34 public schools (combined enrollment of about 31,426 students), Connie Dugan Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: South Paulding High School, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Connie Dugan Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Connie Dugan Elementary School comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 37.4%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Five-year trend. Connie Dugan Elementary School's enrollment has edged down 11% since 2018, when it stood at 727 (now 647). The White share of enrollment contracted from 58% to 40% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 today.

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