Crisp County Elementary School

Crisp County Elementary School is one of the small primary schools in Cordele, Georgia, one of the schools within Crisp County, with 439 students on its rolls from grades 4 through 5. Compared to the state average of about 605 students per school, that is 27% leaner than typical.

Crisp County comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 3,311 students; Crisp County Elementary School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Crisp County Elementary School lists that the largest single group is Black, at 63% of enrollment. Other groups include 25% White, 7% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Crisp County as a whole is about 45% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.8:1. The state averages around 13.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 100% of students at Crisp County Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Crisp County Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 25.7%; this one delivers 21.1%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Crisp County indicate median household earnings sit near $45,105, about 15% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 19%. In all, Crisp County runs 6 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,327 students), of which Crisp County Elementary School is one.

Crisp County Pre-K is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around Crisp County Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Crisp County Elementary School comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 16.6%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Looking at the recent track record. Crisp County Elementary School's enrollment has edged down 33% since 2018, when it stood at 659 (now 439). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 17.3:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 today.

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