Harper Elementary School

Harper Elementary School operates as an intimate elementary campus in Thomasville, Georgia, run under Thomasville City. Current enrollment sits at 263 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Georgia's public schools average about 605 students each, so Harper Elementary School sits 57% leaner than that benchmark.

Across the 5 schools in Thomasville City (2,622 students total), Harper Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Harper Elementary School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (95%). The wider county runs roughly 35% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.3:1, putting Harper Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Thomas County (around 92%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Harper Elementary School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 25.9%; this one comes in at 9.3%, -16.6 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Thomas County indicate median household income runs about $60,736, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Harper Elementary School is one of 13 public schools in Thomas County (combined enrollment of about 8,451 students).

Nearest neighbor: Jerger Elementary School, around 1.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Harper Elementary School. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Harper Elementary School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 28.6%.

The school occupies a town-based site.

Over the past 7-year window. Harper Elementary School's enrollment has fell 22% since 2018, when it stood at 338 (now 263).

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