Double Churches Elementary School

Set in Columbus, Georgia, Double Churches Elementary School is a compact primary school, part of Muscogee County. It caters to 472 students across grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 22% leaner than the state mean of about 605.

Muscogee County comprises 54 schools with combined enrollment of 30,091 students; Double Churches Elementary School is among them.

Demographically, Double Churches Elementary School shows that the most-represented group is White (40%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest consists of 35% Black, 13% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 3% Asian. Compared to Muscogee County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.3:1, putting Double Churches Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 77% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Muscogee County runs at roughly 86%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Double Churches Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 37.7%; this one delivers 35.1%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Muscogee County) records that the typical household earns roughly $58,073 per year, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. Across Muscogee County's 57 public schools (combined enrollment of about 30,110 students), Double Churches Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Double Churches Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Double Churches Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Double Churches Elementary School comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 41.7%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 17%: 572 students in 2018 compared to 472 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 56% to 40%. Class-load math has tightened: from 18.2:1 in 2018 to 17.2:1 in 2025.

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