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Crisp County Primary School
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Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedWhat this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 27 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 33 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Georgia schools, those numbers are about 40 and 45. Reading and writing scores are up about 15 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 13 points.
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Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 24% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 26% typical for Georgia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Georgia's top nor bottom 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Crisp County Primary School
Set in Cordele, Georgia, Crisp County Primary School is a sizable primary school, run under Crisp County. It educates 964 students across grades K through 3. That puts it 59% bigger than the typical public school in Georgia, which averages around 605 students.
Crisp County comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 3,311 students; Crisp County Primary School is among them.
Looking at the student body, Crisp County Primary School logs that the largest single group is Black, at 59% of enrollment; the rest reads as 26% White, 8% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Crisp County as a whole is about 45% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, Crisp County Primary School records 78 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.4:1. The state averages around 13.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 100% of students at Crisp County Primary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.
With demographic context factored in, Crisp County Primary 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 24.0%.
Around the school, census data for Crisp County shows median household earnings sit near $45,105, about 15% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 19%. In all, Crisp County runs 6 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,327 students), of which Crisp County Primary School is one.
Nearest neighbor: Crisp County High School, around 1.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around Crisp County Primary School. On composite proficiency, Crisp County Primary School comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 16.5%.
Crisp County Primary School operates from a small-town location.
Five-year trend. Crisp County Primary School's enrollment has contracted 19% since 2018, when it stood at 1,186 (now 964). White enrollment moved from 31% to 26% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 in 2025.
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Crisp County at a glance
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- Crisp County High SchoolHigh · 978 students
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- Crisp County Elementary SchoolElementary · 439 students
- Crisp County Pre-KElementary · 216 students
- Crisp County High SchoolHigh · 978 students
- Crisp County Middle SchoolMiddle · 714 students
- Crisp County Elementary SchoolElementary · 439 students
- Crisp County Pre-KElementary · 216 students
- Crisp RYDCHigh · 16 students
- Crisp County High School1.4 mi · 978
- Crisp RYDC1.7 mi · 16
- Crisp County Middle School2.2 mi · 714
- Crisp County Pre-K2.4 mi · 216
- Crisp County Elementary School3.4 mi · 439
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