Greer Elementary School

Greer Elementary School is a mid-tier elementary-level community in Brunswick, Georgia, run under Glynn County. The school caters to 599 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Greer Elementary School is one of 17 schools operated by Glynn County, a district that hosts 12,750 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Greer Elementary School shows that the most-represented group is White (54%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 18% Black, 18% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 2% Asian. By comparison, Glynn County as a whole is about 64% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.3:1 average. Roughly 74% of students at Greer Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Greer Elementary School sits in the top 10% of Georgia schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 39.2%; actual is 60.9%, +21.6 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Glynn County put median household earnings sit near $69,799, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Greer Elementary School is one of 18 public schools in Glynn County (combined enrollment of about 13,911 students).

Nearest neighbor: Needwood Middle School, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Greer Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Greer Elementary School at 1st of 7; the average score across the group is 38.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Five-year trend. Greer Elementary School's enrollment has edged down 21% since 2018, when it stood at 761 (now 599). Over the same period, the Black share shrank from 28% to 18%. Class-load math has fell: from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 in 2025.

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