Eastside Elementary School

Eastside Elementary School operates as a cozy elementary campus in Douglasville, Georgia, run under Douglas County. Current enrollment sits at 433 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 28% leaner than the typical public school in Georgia, which averages around 605 students.

Douglas County runs 35 schools in total, collectively educating 25,521 students. Eastside Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Eastside Elementary School reports that Black students make up the majority at 59%. Beyond that, the school logs 27% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 6% White. By comparison, Douglas County as a whole is about 50% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.3:1, putting Eastside Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 91% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Douglas County's rate of about 71%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Eastside Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 30.1%; this one delivers 24.8%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Douglas County put median household earnings sit near $82,984, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Douglas County runs 37 public schools (combined enrollment of about 26,121 students), of which Eastside Elementary School is one.

Burnett Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Eastside Elementary School comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 29.4%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Eastside Elementary School's enrollment has ticked down 15% since 2018, when it stood at 509 (now 433). The Black share of enrollment edged down from 65% to 59% over that span. Class-load math has widened: from 14.5:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 in 2025.

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