Hardaway High School

Hardaway High School is a moderately sized senior high in Columbus, Georgia, one of the schools within Muscogee County. The school enrolls 1,067 students in grades 9 through 12.

Muscogee County runs 54 schools in total, collectively educating 30,091 students. Hardaway High School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Hardaway High School shows that the largest single group is Black, at 67% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 14% White, 11% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 47% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Hardaway High School shows 80 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.2:1, putting Hardaway High School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Muscogee County (around 86%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, Hardaway High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.7%, the actual is 24.7%, a residual of -0.9 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Muscogee County indicate the typical household earns roughly $58,073 per year, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. Hardaway High School is one of 57 public schools in Muscogee County (combined enrollment of about 30,110 students).

Nearest neighbor: Clubview Elementary School, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Hardaway High School at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 36.4%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 16%: 1,273 students in 2018 compared to 1,067 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 22% to 14% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.0:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 today.

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