Dove Creek Elementary School

Dove Creek Elementary School, a mid-tier elementary school in Statham, Georgia, one of the schools within Oconee County, serves 543 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Within Oconee County, which oversees 12 schools and 8,474 students, Dove Creek Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Dove Creek Elementary School lists that 85% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 5% Hispanic, 4% Asian, 4% multiracial, 3% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, On paper, Dove Creek Elementary School has 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.3:1 average. Roughly 15% of students at Dove Creek Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Dove Creek Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 69.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 77.8%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Oconee County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $121,217 per year, about 56% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Oconee County runs 12 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,474 students), of which Dove Creek Elementary School is one.

Dove Creek Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Dove Creek Elementary School at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 60.7%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

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