Eagle Ridge Academy

Eagle Ridge Academy is one of the mid-tier elementary-level communitys in Columbus, Georgia, overseen by Muscogee County, with 658 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

Within Muscogee County, which oversees 54 schools and 30,091 students, Eagle Ridge Academy is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Eagle Ridge Academy records that the most-represented group is White (34%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 33% Black, 16% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 6% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.7:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 76% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below Muscogee County's rate of about 86%.

With demographic context factored in, Eagle Ridge Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.2%, the actual is 40.4%, a residual of +2.1 points.

Zooming out to the county, Muscogee County reports that the typical household earns roughly $58,073 per year, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. Across Muscogee County's 57 public schools (combined enrollment of about 30,110 students), Eagle Ridge Academy is one campus in the mix.

Shaw High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Eagle Ridge Academy comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 39.5%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Five-year trend. Eagle Ridge Academy's enrollment has fell 12% since 2018, when it stood at 749 (now 658). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 45% to 34%. Class-load math has tightened: from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 in 2025.

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