Early County High School

Early County High School, a modestly sized high school in Blakely, Georgia, operated by Early County, instructs 506 students, covering grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 55% below the state mean of about 1,120.

Within Early County, which oversees 3 schools and 1,482 students, Early County High School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Early County High School shows that 80% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority; the rest is composed of 14% White, 4% multiracial. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 53%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 78% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Early County (around 92%), the school's rate is south of typical.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Early County High School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 37.1%; actual is 14.6%, a gap of -22.5 points.

In the area at large, Early County reports that median household income runs about $54,083, 15% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 20% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Early County High School is one of 3 public schools in Early County (combined enrollment of about 1,482 students).

Nearest neighbor: Early County Middle School, around 0.1 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Early County High School comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 21.8%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 20%: 633 students in 2018 compared to 506 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 26% to 14% across the same window.

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