Harmony Elementary School

Harmony Elementary School is one of the small K-5 schools in Jasper, Georgia, operated by Pickens County, with 509 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 4.

Pickens County runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 3,970 students. Harmony Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Harmony Elementary School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (85%). The remainder reads as 10% Hispanic, 4% multiracial.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Harmony Elementary School has 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.1:1. The state averages about 13.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 65% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Harmony Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.0%, the actual is 43.2%, a residual of -0.7 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Pickens County shows the typical household earns roughly $78,930 per year, 27% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Pickens County runs 6 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,970 students), of which Harmony Elementary School is one.

Pickens County Junior High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Harmony Elementary School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Harmony Elementary School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 44.6%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Harmony Elementary School has edged down 11%, going from 575 students in 2018 to 509 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 94% to 85%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 today.

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