Eastside Elementary School

Eastside Elementary School operates as a mid-tier K-5 school in Douglas, Georgia, run under Coffee County. Current enrollment sits at 575 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

Coffee County runs 12 schools in total, collectively educating 7,640 students. Eastside Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Eastside Elementary School lists that the largest single group is Black at 47%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school records 30% White, 16% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.3:1 average. Roughly 100% of students at Eastside Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, Eastside Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.7%, the actual is 23.5%, a residual of -2.1 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Coffee County put the typical household earns roughly $50,683 per year, 14% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 21%. Eastside Elementary School is one of 12 public schools in Coffee County (combined enrollment of about 7,640 students).

George Washington Carver Freshman Campus is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.3 miles from this campus. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Eastside Elementary School comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 36.0%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Eastside Elementary School has edged down 19%, going from 711 students in 2018 to 575 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share shrank from 55% to 47%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 15.0:1 today.

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