Cornelia Elementary School

Cornelia Elementary School operates as a modestly sized elementary campus in Cornelia, Georgia, overseen by Habersham County. Current enrollment sits at 491 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 14 schools in Habersham County (7,257 students total), Cornelia Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Cornelia Elementary School logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 65%; the rest comes out to 25% White, 5% multiracial, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 16% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Cornelia Elementary School lists 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.3:1 average. Roughly 100% of students at Cornelia Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Habersham County runs at roughly 90%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Cornelia Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 25.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 23.4%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Habersham County indicate median household earnings sit near $67,309, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Habersham County's 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,835 students), Cornelia Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Level Grove Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.9 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Cornelia Elementary School comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 43.6%.

The school occupies a town-based site.

Five-year trend. Cornelia Elementary School's enrollment has ticked down 22% since 2018, when it stood at 627 (now 491). The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 56% to 65% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 13.2:1 in 2018 to 11.7:1 today.

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