Glascock County Elementary School

Glascock County Elementary School is an elementary school of modestly sized scale in Gibson, Georgia, overseen by Glascock County, instructing 276 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 54% below the state mean of about 605.

Within Glascock County, which oversees 2 schools and 580 students, Glascock County Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Glascock County Elementary School lists that 93% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 5% multiracial.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.3:1, putting Glascock County Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 60% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Glascock County Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.5%, the actual is 36.8%, a residual of -9.7 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Glascock County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $54,934 per year, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Glascock County runs 2 public schools (combined enrollment of about 580 students), of which Glascock County Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Glascock County Middle/High School, around 0.0 miles off. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Glascock County Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 20.3%.

The school occupies a rural site.

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