Fairmount Elementary School

Fairmount Elementary School operates as a cozy K-5 school in Fairmount, Georgia, operated by Gordon County. Current enrollment sits at 366 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 605 students per school, that is 40% below typical.

Fairmount Elementary School is one of 10 schools operated by Gordon County, a district that teaches 6,259 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Fairmount Elementary School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (91%); the rest reads as 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 78% White, putting the school's mix visibly more White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.3:1 average. About 99% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Gordon County's rate of about 90%.

With demographic context factored in, Fairmount Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 26.1%, the actual is 39.8%, a residual of +13.7 points.

In the area at large, census data for Gordon County shows the typical household earns roughly $63,650 per year, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Gordon County's 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,452 students), Fairmount Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Pine Log Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 7.4 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Fairmount Elementary School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 43.9%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Looking at the recent track record. Fairmount Elementary School's enrollment has ticked down 13% since 2018, when it stood at 421 (now 366). Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 12.0:1 in 2025.

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