Fourth District Elementary School

Located at 13396 Blackshear Hwy, in Surrency, Georgia, Fourth District Elementary School is a micro-enrollment elementary campus that serves 148 students (grades pre-K through 5), part of Appling County. That puts it 76% smaller than the typical public school in Georgia, which averages around 605 students.

Appling County runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 3,414 students. Fourth District Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Fourth District Elementary School shows that the largest single group is White, at 66% of enrollment; the rest looks like 16% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 7% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.7:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Around 95% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Fourth District Elementary School ranks in the top 10% of Georgia public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 28.1%; Fourth District Elementary School posts 46.9%, +18.8 points above that line.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Appling County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $46,651 per year, about 11% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 19%. Across Appling County's 5 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,414 students), Fourth District Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Appling County Middle School, around 10.6 miles off. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Fourth District Elementary School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 51.9%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Five-year trend. Fourth District Elementary School's enrollment has shrank 27% since 2018, when it stood at 202 (now 148). White enrollment moved from 73% to 66% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 in 2025.

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