Gadsden Elementary School

Gadsden Elementary School, a tight-knit K-5 school in Savannah, Georgia, run under Savannah-Chatham County, educates 493 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Savannah-Chatham County runs 58 schools in total, collectively educating 36,355 students. Gadsden Elementary School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Gadsden Elementary School reports that 94% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. The remainder reads as 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 39% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school reports having 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.3:1, putting Gadsden Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 99% of students at Gadsden Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Chatham County runs at roughly 74%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Gadsden Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 26.2%; this one delivers 16.6%.

Across the wider county, Chatham County reports that median household earnings sit near $71,097, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Gadsden Elementary School is one of 60 public schools in Chatham County (combined enrollment of about 36,380 students).

Nearest neighbor: Esther F. Garrison School for the Arts, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Gadsden Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Gadsden Elementary School comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 41.7%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Over the past 7-year window. Gadsden Elementary School's enrollment has ticked down 19% since 2018, when it stood at 611 (now 493). Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 in 2025.

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